First post, by MMX
Hello ppl. I started read this forum long time ago. But just joined recently 😊
Also long time ago i noticed one interesting thing. But recently i decided to research that thing again 😀
On my Athlon64 3400+ (Newcastle) any intensive program get very high CPU usage. Before i never tested it properly but now i realize that's true. I will not describe all my actions, just short example. I open task manager and then start Quake 3. I change setting of the Quake3 to 1024*768 and fullscreen off. So now i can see task manager. This is enough to test even if quake3 do not let mouse to release from window mode. Supposed i will start DEMOS -> FOUR.DM_68 (standart demo) but WOW i'm already get 100% CPU usage 😲 . Just in menu. That's exactly what i mean. What i want to say even if i get Pentium4 2,4GHz (for example) it will show less frames per second in any quake3 test. But CPU usage will be 60-65% maximum. Small remark, i have win2003 installed on this system. And i want to ask people here who have Athlon64 with WinXP to make same tests. Results should be interesting, i think 😀