Athlon XP 1900+
Asus A7N266-C [Nvidia NForce 415D chipset]
256 PC 2100 DDR
Case w/ 300 Watt fan
Good luck and enjoy whatever you buy.
Hugh
MadDAWG
> Athlon XP 1900+
> Asus A7N266-C [Nvidia NForce 415D chipset]
> 256 PC 2100 DDR
> Case w/ 300 Watt fan
NB: Important! - if you do get an nforce board (any type) make sure you
get your ram in a pair. it's not required to make it work, but it allows
the motherboard to make use of Twinbank access 128bit vs 64bit. This
alone grabbed me an extra 400 3Dmarks on the nforce420 (duron 950)
machine 1400->1800.
The board N415D only support AGP 4x 1.5volt cards so make sure you have
one of these, I'm using a Radeon 64DDR vivo at the moment, but will
upgrade to a nivida GeForce 4Ti4x00. - try www.komplett.co.uk for the
best prices.
I'm very happy with this board, much better that my via based abit (bios
f*?ked1!). I would never get another via based board.. the 4in1 drivers
are a nitemare. Heard good things about sis boards.
Only other thing is my USB wheel doesn't keep working, fine for about
2-20 mins they directX can't see it move, I'm begining to think it's the
wheel (it's been "out the back in the garage area for a couple of
seasons" Trying to get another usb joystick to solve the problem.. But
not one else has reported any problems on the asus newsgroup.
regards
SteveL
regards
SteveL
My system arrives on Monday and is configured similar to yours except an
Athlon 2100 and a Geforce 4 Ti4600. I'm looking for the answer to the
following:
Under Windows XP with this type of system are you getting GPL running at
high frame rates with the detail slider all the way to the right and all the
track and car goodies? Figure this will save having to rig up a dual boot
with Win 98.
Thanks in advance.
Wayne
> Good luck and enjoy whatever you buy.
> Hugh
> > Looking at putting together an inexpensive rig. Been going back and
> > forth between the Asus A7V266-E [Via 266a] and the one below (as well
> > as Abit- ahhhh my head hurts from web surfing for info!). Does this
> > sound OK, and if so, what would you recommend as far changes or for
> > hard drive, cd-rom? I just want the basics to start, for racing only.
> > Thanks.
> > Athlon XP 1900+
> > Asus A7N266-C [Nvidia NForce 415D chipset]
> > 256 PC 2100 DDR
> > Case w/ 300 Watt fan
I'm not Hugh but the answer is "YES."
My sys is "only" a P4 1.8 with "only" a GF Ti 500 and I run GPL the way you
described with all the bells and whistles and track add car inprovements.
I have a dual boot but have yet to find a program I need the Win 98
partition for. It just sits tgere, all alone . . . .
Elrikk
Vintook
P.S. I also ran GPL with this same rig and a 32mb Gforce2 MX card. It also
was pegged at 36 fps but without the FSAA.
> My system arrives on Monday and is configured similar to yours except an
> Athlon 2100 and a Geforce 4 Ti4600. I'm looking for the answer to the
> following:
> Under Windows XP with this type of system are you getting GPL running at
> high frame rates with the detail slider all the way to the right and all
the
> track and car goodies? Figure this will save having to rig up a dual boot
> with Win 98.
> Thanks in advance.
> Wayne
> > Hi
> > I have just "invested" (!) in an Athlon 2000 with the A7V333 board
(which
> > was actually cheaper than the 266; and I was told, better) with 512KB
> memory
> > and a Geforce 4Ti440 card; and I am totally impressed with the
> performance.
> > I have bought an Asus board for my last 3 computers and had zero
problems
> > with them all.
> > Good luck and enjoy whatever you buy.
> > Hugh
> > > Looking at putting together an inexpensive rig. Been going back and
> > > forth between the Asus A7V266-E [Via 266a] and the one below (as well
> > > as Abit- ahhhh my head hurts from web surfing for info!). Does this
> > > sound OK, and if so, what would you recommend as far changes or for
> > > hard drive, cd-rom? I just want the basics to start, for racing only.
> > > Thanks.
> > > Athlon XP 1900+
> > > Asus A7N266-C [Nvidia NForce 415D chipset]
> > > 256 PC 2100 DDR
> > > Case w/ 300 Watt fan
