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Wojtek P
Poland

Posts 1597
16 Aug 2010 11:38

Marcel Verdaasdonk wrote:

Edward you know in most test Asrock is one of the worst you can buy?

Good topic - for any of popular PC/Windows forum.


Thomas Clarke
United Kingdom

Posts 286
16 Aug 2010 12:12

edward haddock wrote:

hi well the computer has a Asrock K8NF6P-VSTA motherboard and amd athlon 64 3400+ cpu thought that was its speed but it is 2.2 ghz and using either onboard or basic sound and graphics.
 
  edd

Edward, most of your hardware sounds fine, honestly you can't go wrong by getting a decent spec GPU for what you need. Other people are giving you good advice, but they're not tailoring it to what you say you want out of your computer.

GPUs are designed to accelerate graphics functions, and now thanks to GPGPU technology you can make use of that power outside gaming. Converting videos is a great example of the power of GPGPU computing.

You don't have to take my word for it, look at the performance benefits for yourself:
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These are the GPUs that support CUDA:
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Picking a middle of the range card from that list, GeForce GT240, you're looking at about £80:
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If you're on a tight budget, £24 is the cheapest I could find for a CUDA-enabled GPU:
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Hope this info helps.

Marcel Verdaasdonk
Netherlands

Posts 3975
16 Aug 2010 14:34

the biggest problem of his board i think would be that it's a DDR RAM board.
  he doesn't have bandwidth, depending on his memory it can run on 266MHz even.(could work on 400MHz tops!)
 
  Even the Natami could outperform his machine in memory to chipset applications.

Brett M
Australia

Posts 12
16 Aug 2010 14:52

edward haddock wrote:

hi well the computer has a Asrock K8NF6P-VSTA motherboard and amd athlon 64 3400+ cpu thought that was its speed but it is 2.2 ghz and using either onboard or basic sound and graphics.
 
  edd

I ran an Asrock +Athlon 2400mhz for years no problems. It's light on features though.
By using the onboard graphics you are using up some of memory bandwidth that the CPU could use, they have to share the bus. Plus onboard graphics are always poor performers about 20% less than the same specced NVidia card.
First thing to do would be to get a separate graphics card so you can give all the memory bus to the CPU. Don't get Leadtek or Manli, I've had problems with these.

Next go with the Athlon X3 triple core and whatever motherboard. You will be flying.

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