How fast is your TS3?
Doc Doofus:
If you could only upgrade one thing, I'd go for maxing out the RAM. But since you will probably find out you need a new motherboard to do that effectively, you'll probably end up having to upgrade everything, cheap.
A few weeks ago when TS3 came out, I bookmarked some cheap upgrade items on Newegg. I bookmarked this ASUS motherboard ($69.99) with dual core Phenom II cpu ($102.99) as a reasonable starting point. It has room for 16gb ram, although 8 would be more than enough to last until the next upgrade.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131381
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103680
RiceBall:
Quote from: Buzzler on 2009 August 16, 09:25:55
Overclocking can't do miracles. It's a good result to squeeze 3GHz out of a Brisbane-Athlon but the resulting 20% perfomance increase are just on the edge of noticeability. There's no way it can compete with a Phenom II at any rate.
If she can get the cpu up to 3ghz it will be noticeable; I have yet to see any evidence sims 3 fully utilizes quad cores preventing maximized returns on phenom II.
Quote from: Buzzler on 2009 August 16, 09:25:55
And the graphics card won't be a bottleneck, TS3 ist just as CPU-limited as TS2.
There's no such thing as a general bottleneck, there are limits, and it really depends on the game you're playing. Unless you don't go and try to play TS3 on an IGP or something it's going to be CPU-limited no matter what.
In the context of sims 2/sims 3 this is true, but Skadi purchase a gt250 which is overkill for the sims 3, I made an assumption that she also plays other games where her current cpu will bottleneck; she has acknowledge this herself.
Quote from: Rockermonkey on 2009 August 16, 13:36:24
Whoever said that overclocking would be good needs to google :D because overclocking is usually something that many try not to do. Overclocking a card will only give a small gain but also give a pretty big chance of a faster death, of either being burnt out or the person clocking it to high and then, well burning it out XD. Leave overclocking to the maker's of the card, Sim fans aren't the kind of gamers who should even have to bother with overclocking, because if you can't play the game fine it's not going to get any better just because you overclocked a crappy card or processor.
Your advice is sound for the "average" sims player who purchase their computers off dell.com but both Luisa and Skadi and stated in their posts they built their computers themselves, thus are already quite tech savy and capable of researching and deciding whether it a good idea.
Quote from: Doc Doofus on 2009 August 17, 01:29:11
If you could only upgrade one thing, I'd go for maxing out the RAM. But since you will probably find out you need a new motherboard to do that effectively, you'll probably end up having to upgrade everything, cheap.
A few weeks ago when TS3 came out, I bookmarked some cheap upgrade items on Newegg. I bookmarked this ASUS motherboard ($69.99) with dual core Phenom II cpu ($102.99) as a reasonable starting point. It has room for 16gb ram, although 8 would be more than enough to last until the next upgrade.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131381
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103680
Luisa current gigabyte mobo supports up to 16gb of ram spread over 4 mem slots; Luisa is based in England and newegg does not ship internationally.
Brand:
The only relatively significant difference I found is that my game starts up in about 37 seconds (awesome mod and skip intro).
ASUS P5B-E
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 Conroe 2.13GHz 1066MHz FSB
CORSAIR XMS2 4GB TWIN2X2048-6400 (800mz running at 667 because my MB is weird about having 4 slots full)
nvidia 9800GTX+ SSC (EVGA overclocked to 792/1152)
Vista
Skadi:
You're right Rice Ball, I've been building PCs for 7 years. If I had more money, the rig would be bleeding edge. Unfortunately Shroomlet comes first. I've been circling around Win7 but I still play old games, and I would hate to lose the compatibility, and I'm currently to busy to make my machine dual boot. The joy of computers is they only run as fast as your slowest component.
Yes the GTS250 is over kill for TS3, but RA3 sure looks purty!
Quote from: tickleonthetum on 2009 August 16, 19:53:01
Mez forgot to allocate money for da game!!!!! :o Oops... SILLY ME!!!
I've gotta wait 4 weeks now until I've got the money to get it! LOL... Know am I not Awesome or what!! :D :D
Getting in before Pescado: PIRATE CAT DOESN'T PAY FOR HIS GAMES!
Verbed Noun:
My TS3 performance varies wildly from silk-smooth to 0.1 FPS for no apparent reason (it's not story progression delay, apps running in the background, or any particular activities or locations).
AMD Athlon 3800+ 2.4GHz
1GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT 128MB
Windows XP SP3
I'll accept that the "apparent reason" is my laughable hardware only if someone can explain to me why it is that the game runs fine sometimes.
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