I spent most of the day yesterday setting it up, and, like most times that you perform a major heart/brain transplant on a computer, there were times where I could have sworn it didn't work, and times I ended up with wires and didn't know where the hell they went.. But, eventually, I made it all fit into my case somehow, and it is now fully operational with a new version of windows. And, boy, you don't realize what you got 'til it's gone. Holy Christ, it's a pain in the ass to install all my new programs again. The minute I finished that sentence I just finished installing Vista SP1. I have zero games installed right now, and as my internet is a remarkably slow piece of shit, chances are it will take me 2 more years to download them all again.
But enough of my bitching. Let's talk about the performance of this little sucker, huh?
But all these tests mean close to nothing if the game cannot perform in-game. So, I transferred over an old installation of Crysis from my Program Files folder to my new one, and fired up the infamous resource hog. Before, I had to run this game on Medium/Low settings. My GPU, a GTX 280, could certainly handle it, but my Pentium D was waaay out of its league.
At the time of playing Crysis I did not have Fraps installed, and, as such, have not benchmarked it. But judging my feel, I was running it at max settings with 25+ FPS with no shooting, and it dropped to low 20s when shooting started happening and buildings started collapsing around me. I will post benchmarks of this and other games in an upcoming blog.
FOR THOSE WHO WILL SAY TL;DR, HERE'S A LONG STORY SHORT: I am fucking ecstatic right now. I was playing Crysis yesterday with max settings while running Windows Updater, transferring 50 GBs of files to my computer, downloading a game from Steam, and I had a stable framerate with my CPU usage at ~50 to 60% or less.
I couldn't be happier with the purchase, certainly worth the money. Now to stop posting this blog and getting back to installing drivers, so I can actually play games on this beast of a machine.
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