Do you think my new machine specs are good enough to play on Huge maps?

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I was playing on a 1GHZ Duron with 512 RAM and an ATI Radeon 9250 256mb ram a few weeks ago and my computer chip got fried easily after a few weeks play.

Now I will have the following setup:

AMD Sempron 3100+
1GB DDR PC3200 Ram
ATI Radeon 9250 256MB



Do you think it'll run a huge map successfully?

Whats the difference between a Sempron and an Atholon. The only difference I've noticed is the amount of L2 Cache going from 256kb to 512kb.

The Videocard isn't too much of a problem for me because the vidcard was fine on the old machine and I don't expect it to be much of a problem on the new machine.
 
looks good man and you are right sempron have lower L2 cache than the athlon series. The only thing I really see that might cause problems is the vid card but hey i did see that the 9250 worked fine in the game so it shouldnt be much of a worry. Mine works okay heres my specs and you have a faster processor.

AMD Sempron 2200+ (1.5GHZ)
MSI KM4AM-L
1GB RAM (512x2)
256MB ATI Radeon All-in-wonder x800xt
 
Actually, I just read up on the subject. The 3100+ sempron seems to be where they made the jump from Socket A to Socket 754 for the sempron processor and the 3100+ and above versions seem to have 64-bit support.

I'm not sure how detrimental the 256 less cache will be.
 
Correct again well basically Semprons were made for overclocking well mainly because they come cheaper than the athlons but dont get me wrong athlon and semprons are really both stable even when overclocked. I have been in some forums where they can run up to 50% Overclock on their sempies.
Me i dont do OC dont want to waste hehehe.

and yes if you are into Sempies also Sempron 64's are out also in socket 754
 
At first AMD disabled the 64 extensions for the original 3100+ sempron, but it looks like the Palmero core semprons out now do have the 64-bit extensions.

I'm not sure as to how the lessened l2 cache will effect performance though.
Here's a link to the product I bought.
https://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80503

Looks like intel is getting its assed kicked in the budget market.
 
Well Intel concentrated on speed but lacked features one big thing is direct 3d which AMD has so no need for a high end vid card to run civ. And its true AMD kicks pentium ass any day of the week hahaha
 
Oh yes and one advice from an AMD fan to the next. If you can, get an oversized heatsink fan get one from cooler masters or zalmans heating has been an issue but this can easily resolve it.
 
Fallen Angel Lord said:
Do you think it'll run a huge map successfully?
If with "successfully" you mean will it crash, it's hard to say. For some people it crashes constantly with larger maps when more memory is being shuffled around.

If with "successfully" you mean will it run fast, the answer is it will if you reduce details a lot. I don't think it will run very fast without serious tweaking with that poor graphics. Radeon 9250 is a very poor performer when it comes to fillrate, so it will certainly struggle with native resolutions when lots of stuff has to be drawn. Also the memory interface is horribly slow so that even if you have enough video RAM on the card, it will struggle moving those high resolution textures around.

You may want to use the search and try to find what settings other 9250 users have found to provide acceptable performance. You might even try some of the performance tweaks with lower resolution graphics file replacements (just remember to make backups first).
 
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