Reply 200 of 642, by Skyscraper
We have many members running socket 775 systems as their main rigs. Lately there have been lots of discussion concerning their viability as gaming rigs for modern Direct-X 11 games.
I did a quick 3dmark 11 run (Preset: Performance) using a socket 775 system with two Geforce GTX 580 in SLI and the performance numbers look good. The total score is not great as the CPU isnt that fast when it comes to the physics tests but the GPU score is where it should be. Both the CPU and GPUs are overclocked but the CPU is using its default voltage and the GPUs only 1.075V so there is plenty of performance left to squeeze out.
I think when it comes to games that do not use more than 4 cores a system like this should be able to keep up decently for another couple of years.
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.