Worst hardware to play with...

[LePresident]

Another piece of crap today : nVidia 8500 GT.

I recently received an old HP m8180 as a abandongift, so I tried it with my games.
It's a early 2007 desktop machine.
The CPU is quite good, it's a Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, way much better than the Core 2 Duo P8700 of my ThinkPad.

I tested the CPUs using a video edition in Blender, with a 6 second video, green screen, alpha set, etc...
Rendering results :

• the HP m8180 Quad took 150 seconds,
  
• the ThinkPad W500 Duo took 327 seconds.
  

We can clearly see that the Quad is really faster than the Duo.


But for the GPU, it's another story !!!
It's an old nVidia 8500 GT.

I tried different games, but no way !

• ET is slow and laggy, almost unplayable.
  
• Silent Hunter III refuses to launch.
  
• Age of Empires III is incredibly slow and laggy, really unplayable.
  

But I can play :

• Populous 3 The Beginning, an 1998 game, hurray !
  
• PokerStars, ok, but that's not really a powerful game, right ?