sean butler Posted November 7, 2002 Share Posted November 7, 2002 This will reveal how ignorant I am about things technological. I have a Pentium 4, 1.8 ghz with 256 Ram and a video card with 132vram. Will CMBB run on my computer? (I am a bit confused by "Pentium 500 mhz"; is that the same thing as a Pentium V?) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treeburst155 Posted November 7, 2002 Share Posted November 7, 2002 Your computer has PLENTY of horsepower for CMBB, or any other entertainment software for that matter. Treeburst155 out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP Jones Posted November 7, 2002 Share Posted November 7, 2002 I think 1.8 Ghz = 1,800 Mhz, so no, it is not the same as a Pentium 5, which I dont think even exists yet. A 1.5 Ghz cpu is 3 times faster than a 500Mhz cpu I think. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonp Posted November 7, 2002 Share Posted November 7, 2002 500 Mhz is the same as .5 Ghz (Giga being 1000 times greater then Mega) And, a 1.5 Ghz is not necessarily (and probably wont be) 3 times faster then a 500 Mhz (or .5 Ghz) machine. hth jonp 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yapma Posted November 7, 2002 Share Posted November 7, 2002 jonp: true, but given the nature of the questioner, let's keep this simple, and just say a 1.5 is 3x as fast. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonp Posted November 8, 2002 Share Posted November 8, 2002 I do not agree that one should spread that information. There are way too many factors involved. Is an 8 cylinder car twice as fast as a 4 cylinder car??? If he is not computer savvy, the least we can do is make sure he understands that you cant just compare numbers. jonp 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
27ray Posted November 11, 2002 Share Posted November 11, 2002 This entire thread is what is wrong with computers today. :confused: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadHunter Posted November 13, 2002 Share Posted November 13, 2002 Originally posted by jonp: Is an 8 cylinder car twice as fast as a 4 cylinder car???Maybe not - but is a car that's going 120mph three times faster than a car going 40mph? Of course it is. A 1.5 GHz processor is capable of performing three times more calculations per second than a 500MHz chip. How the software utilizes that extra power may vary, but the raw data is correct. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mud Posted November 13, 2002 Share Posted November 13, 2002 No, it's not... architectural issues interfere, such as the number of instructions that regularly gets executed simultaneously and how much each instruction can accomplish. Compare the PowerPC architecture with the Pentium 4 or a McKinley... or, for that matter, the Pentium 4 with the original Pentium. Benchmarking in the general case is not terribly meaningful, hence the focus on specific applications. Then, you've got to take into account bottlenecks in the rest of the system e.g. a 2.8GHz PIV w/ an ancient Riva TNT w/ 16MB card, a mere 128MB SDRAM, and a slow drive might have more trouble in CMBB than a 1.6GHz PIII w/ a 128MB GF4 Ti4600, 512MB RDRAM and a RAID 5 array of 10K RPM SCSI disks. Both, however, might deliver near-identical performance in the first Doom... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadHunter Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 I won't dispute that - I was speaking solely of the processor itself. I mean, that's how they are rated, right? Cycles per second - on/off, 1/0, however you slice it. I will agree that the "rated speed" and the practical gain in performance are not necessarily equal. I also think anyone who uses old hardware like that with a P4 2.8 probably deserves to be flogged 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusB Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 I am no computer wizard Sean, but your computer will rock with this game. It will take CMBB out to lunch, then spank its bottom. It will... you get the point. Actually 500 Mhz was a Pentium 3 processor if memory serves correctly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP Jones Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 Originally posted by jonp: Is an 8 cylinder car twice as fast as a 4 cylinder car??? jonpThat is a completely apples and oranges comparison. A foolish choice to try to make your point IMO. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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