Source Engine: Counterstrike Beta Hits The Street
by Derek Wilson on August 26, 2004 5:22 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
CPU Impact Teaser
For our CPU tests, we just wanted to demonstrate that our 2.6GHz Athlon 64 FX system eliminated as much of the CPU as possible from the equation. We don't see any CPU bottle necking until we hit 1024x768. Even then, the FX line of processors is fairly resilient, only slipping a few percent each clock speed drop.
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T8000 - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link
When you look at the CPU scaling, I think you have no need to worry about that, unless your CPU runs below 2 Ghz, like the Athlon 2200+ mentioned above.Besides, Geforce 6800 cards scale pretty predictable, so a $200 Geforce 6800LE should still get above 50 fps where a 6800GT has 80. (1280x960/4xAA/8xAF)
saiku - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link
ummm, can we have a few more mid-range cards in there? How about always benchmarking the cards in anandtech's mid-range and value buyer's guides? How about hot sellers such as the 9800 Pro.Most people who read these, IMHO, dont have $500 cards.
FuryVII - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link
#9, Running at that resolution is definitely in the minority. Just as #25 mentioned a $800 CPU isnt too common, so goes people running CS at that resolution.KristopherKubicki - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link
bigpow: Again, same as #15. If you wnat to see the source engine limited on CPU, then we could stick an Athlon XP 2200+ in there and all of the cards would get 23FPS. That would not accurately show which card performs better. We are in the business of benchmarking hardware, not video games.Kristopher
KristopherKubicki - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link
#15 this is true of any video benchmarking, whether from AnandTech or not. The idea is to eliminate bottlenecks to show video card performance.Kristopher
bigpow - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link
I'm getting sick of reading reviews that rely on 800$ CPU (FX53)How many percentage of the readers do you think have Athlon-64 FX53
IMO, I'd read, remember & enjoy these reviews more when they're more real.
saechaka - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link
hey araczynski maybe you didn't like cs cause u sucked. heheklah - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link
Any chance we can see some preliminary benchmarks using the beta 66.00 Forceware?http://www.3dchipset.com/drivers/beta/nvidia/nt5/i...
Early results show a 10-15% bump in VST scores.
araczynski - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link
...hmmm, am i the only one in the world who doesn't give (and never did) a sh*t about CS?I love HL and probably will love HL2, but i think i had more fun playing 3D pac man then CS.
BF1942(ForgottenHope) is a thing of beauty however.
DerekWilson - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link
/me notes the irony of having a typo in a comment about correcting typos ...We should work on getting editable comments :-)