eliteone Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 I have a top notch pc (2700+ athlon xp@2.5ghz at 200fsb, nforce2 mobo, 9700pro) which pretty much throws around every single game that I have in my collection. After running 3dmark2003 I really see how my current setup might not be up to the job for the next gen games such as doom3 and halflife 2. Just looking at those screenshots makes my pc want to cry lol. Does anyone else find it rather annoying that a few months after you upgrade a new wave of games come out that just makes ur hardware feel like molasses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MxxCon Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 no. learn to judge your system by real games, not crap like 3dmark2k3 i have xp1700+gf4 4600 and i have no intention of upgrading for at least another year...i don't care what score i get in 3dmark. i know that all the games i run at highest/high settings run perfectly fine and i'm happy. your system will be more than enough for doom3 and many games after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyD Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 eliteone I have the same setup as you sans the vid card. forget about 3dmark03. wait for doom 3 or half life to finally come out and then decide if you will need to upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blzd|sicmade Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 outdated here: athlon 2000+ 40gb seagate, 80gb wd 8mb cache sound blaster audigy soyo mobo 8x mobo 512 ddr mushkin 21 in monitor geforce 4ti4200 8x agp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary_Player Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 3dmark2k3 was total crap...Half-Life 2 is sposed to be so well coded you can run it on 2000's PC just fine, Doom3 however will probably be a different story but its being coded very well also, different setups for ATI cards vs nVIDIA cards and the whole 9 yards...dun wory about it man, you have a beast of a box and it will work just fine for another year or 2 or maybe even 3 if you keep it in top-notch unskanktified condition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Dragon Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 I have a 1.6ghz and a GF4 ti 4400, and for some reason all my games run like crap. I can never use the highest settings... I mean... The computer's not that bad... Maybe I should clean up the system or something... :\ Oh well... I'm getting a new one this coming christmas. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D!ABOL!C Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 My system runs UT2k3 fairly well, but after seeing what Doom3 and Half Life 2 are gonna look like, I decided to hold off my GPU upgrade til then. I believe i'll be getting the NV35 in August. My specs are below, I think they are pretty decent, and with a simple BIOS upgrade I can run the new Barton 3000+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MxxCon Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 why are you saying hl2 will run slow?! it doesn't look all that good, it doesn't use all the fancyass features of doom3. it's not going to be a leap in gfx quality, like doom3 yes, it will look good/better than hl1, but geez did you look at those shots? my comodore64 can do better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D!ABOL!C Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 why are you saying hl2 will run slow?! Me? I didnt say that, i mainly put off upgrading for D3, but since they announced HL2 i'm excited that my D3 system will run HL2 at a super high quality. I'm sure it will run fine on a slower system, just like the original HL didnt have insane system requirements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackalo Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 My signature says it all. Soon to be upgrading my motherboard and processor to support the 3.06GHz Pentium 4 with 800MHz FSB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ji@nBing Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 :blink: i have an althlon xp 1600+, 256 ddr, and a gf4 mx460 and i can run anything with no problem. ut2k3 runs like butter. :p i do admit i will need an upgrade soon though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacce Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 i have a pentium 3 1 ghz and ever since I updated my vid card to radeon 9000 (128 meg) .. I can play every game so far at high resolution.. games like gta3 and gta 3 vice city and even morrowind I can run at high resolution without any slowdown.. *shrug* ya know, i sister recently recieved a dell 2.2 ghz machine and so far I can't much of a speed difference.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StOnD Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 i upgraded my comp recently (specs below) a week after I got it all put together, the mobo died :( I'm still waiting for the replacement to get here as I browse the web from my friggin Xbox! stupid MSI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premgenius Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 My gaming rig specs are in my sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawtai Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 heh, my computer's almost 2 years old now. I've got a 1.4 Ghz T-bird with 512 DDR PC2700 Ram, on a Asus A7A266 mobo. I first had a Kyro II, but then I bought a radeon 8500. It's worked pretty well for all of the games that I've wanted to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atom Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 check the sig :yes: runs everything crystal clear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rezza Veteran Posted May 14, 2003 Veteran Share Posted May 14, 2003 my main pc (specs in sig) can handle any game out there at the moment... heck even my server system (my previous gaming rig) can handle most stuff... hardware is normally way ahead of software, so most decent setups will last 2-3 years from when they were new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PF Prophet Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 AXP 2k+ 1gb ddr mobo: ecs k7vta3 vid: kryo2 64mb sound: sblive plat hdd: 1x80gb ibm 1x30gb wd cdrom: 52x liton ,56x iomagic cdrw:48x16x48 optorite dvdrom: 10x pioneer OS: win2k3 enterprise (tweaked to workstation+) have yet to find a game i ant play at 1024x768x32bpp-1280x1024x32bpp may take a little tweaking but i can get any game i want to run slicker then snot only thing i want to change is my mobo wana get an ecs l7s7a2 :) test systems a p3 550e@733 320mb pc133 20gb hdd cdroms dead gonna get a new one SOON :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocklea Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 this is mine: AXP 1800+ Tbred A 512 DDR 2100 ti4200 128mb 30gb hdd nforce2 soundstorm a7n8x DX LG 8x4x32 drive one unbranded CD rom WindowsXP Games run OK for now. My next rig might get the Barton or whatever latest desktop chip from AMD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildies Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 i think mine is very good for now...and i will need is more alittle powerfull card AXP 1700+ @2.0Ghz SOLTEK SL-75FRN-L 2x256 DDR333 Gigabyte Radeon9000PRO 64MB DDR whats limiting me now really is my moniter as its ViewSonic E40 14' so its max res. is 1024x768 ,,,so i always run ayngame on this res. very easily till now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemania Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 P3 550MHZ GeForce 4 Ti4200 I am going to squeeze another couple of years out of this cpu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PF Prophet Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 ouch that cpu is a killer(p3 550) i got one of those in a test box(550e copermine) and i have it running at 733:) works grate as a test box but i wouldnt use it as a game machien thats just scarry hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptiPlex Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 My machine has P3 1GHz + 256MB SDRAM! :blink: ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VGVL Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 Link --> My System :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memNOC Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 PIII-700 (o/c'd to a cool 701.. stable as a rock) 240mb SDRAM PC133 (256mb, but onboard vid wont shutdown.. 16mb less right there) GeForce4 MX-420 64MB PCI (no AGP on mobo, so this has to do..) C-Media 8738 onboard audio 3.01GB 5,400RPM Samsung + 1.56GB 5,400 Seagate LG Studioworks 14" CRT curved screen MSI 48x16x48x CD-RW (kinda broken.. pauses when reading..) ZyXEL Prestige 600 Router on 384/192 ADSL 2.0 Stereo Sound System ...running Windows XP SP1 Slipstreamed, DirectX9 and 44.03 Dets, with frequent freezing and crashing.. gotta love po' folk.. (N) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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