rec.autos.simulators

by **Alex Shirle** » Thu, 08 Mar 2001 03:53:39

Note that this post applies if you are planning to use your PC for playing
games...

You will probably find that unless you spend some more and upgrade the
graphics card too, you will not see huge performance improvements. You could
have an AMD Athlon 1200 and still not be able to play anything more modern
than Quake 2. If you are not looking to spend much, a GeForce 2 MX card
should do the trick nicely.

You might want to spend more on your CPU cooler too.

Just MHO.

Alex.

by **Ian** » Thu, 08 Mar 2001 10:51:04

If you're keeping the ATI card and want to run GPL, you better keep the
voodoo as well. The ATI will not run GPL very well in any available
rasterizer.

--
Ian P
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by **Eldre** » Fri, 09 Mar 2001 06:48:28

>You might end up going over budget, by the time you price a *decent* atx
>case. If you spend extra on a case (preferably full tower, and *black*),
>you will be forever happy! Good things to look for in a case are seperatly
>removable side panels (so you can run with one side open, for heating
>control), slide out motherboard tray (for easy motherboard maintenance),
>hard disk drive bays, plus mounts for 80mm fans.

What do you recommend for an ATX case? Any particular brands/models?

Eldred
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by **Dave Henri** » Fri, 09 Mar 2001 09:10:51

Email Tom Pabst...he'll give you some choices...
dave henrie

by **Don Burnett** » Fri, 09 Mar 2001 11:39:57

I have the AcerOpen HX45 mid tower. Works very well for me, and before you
think you might not get a lot in a mid tower - I have - 2 hard drives, a
cd-rom drive, a cd-rw, sblive card, GeForce2 MX vid card, network card, 300
watt PC Power & Cooling ps, and still have a couble bays left to play with -
oh, and 3 fans.

--
Don Burnette
D Burnette in N4

Some people do nothing wrong.
The problem is, they do nothing.
And THAT is wrong.

> >You might end up going over budget, by the time you price a *decent* atx
> >case. If you spend extra on a case (preferably full tower, and *black*),
> >you will be forever happy! Good things to look for in a case are
seperatly
> >removable side panels (so you can run with one side open, for heating
> >control), slide out motherboard tray (for easy motherboard maintenance),
> >hard disk drive bays, plus mounts for 80mm fans.

> What do you recommend for an ATX case? Any particular brands/models?

> Eldred
> --
> Dale Earnhardt, Sr. 1951-2001
> Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett
> GPL F1 hcp. +28.67...F2 +151.26...F3 hcp. +373.73

> Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats
you
> with experience...
> Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

by **Kirk Hous** » Fri, 09 Mar 2001 12:17:24

I'm using the Aopen HX08 it's 300 Watts and 5 bays, full tower all the bells
and whistles.

> >You might end up going over budget, by the time you price a *decent* atx
> >case. If you spend extra on a case (preferably full tower, and *black*),
> >you will be forever happy! Good things to look for in a case are
seperatly
> >removable side panels (so you can run with one side open, for heating
> >control), slide out motherboard tray (for easy motherboard maintenance),
> >hard disk drive bays, plus mounts for 80mm fans.

> What do you recommend for an ATX case? Any particular brands/models?

> Eldred
> --
> Dale Earnhardt, Sr. 1951-2001
> Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett
> GPL F1 hcp. +28.67...F2 +151.26...F3 hcp. +373.73

> Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats
you
> with experience...
> Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

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