[pchelpers] Re: disappointed

  • From: Scott McNay <wizard@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: PcCowboy <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 22:46:34 -0500

Hi PcCowboy,

Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 9:57:07 PM, you wrote:

P> Well I dropped in a AMD 64 X2 5000 cpu and the benchmark went up to
P> 4800. I already dumped this 8600 to my son and waiting for my XFX
P> 8800 to come in. Now we may see a change in scores.

If you can't "feel" the difference, what's the point? I doubt that
you'd be able to feel either the 100 point difference or the 400/500
point difference.

Your experience would seem to indicate that your computer was
CPU-bound, not video-bound.

-- 
Scott.



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