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question for the experts

COWBOYSF

question for the experts

by COWBOYSF » Tue, 05 Feb 2002 07:54:43

i am considering a new computer (current one is driving me nuts with
problems).i want to know if the one i plan on buying will work "overly" well
with n4 and or n2002. please inform me if you think i should add anything or
take out something and add something else instead. i am looking for exceptional
performance with the nascar games.  thanks in advance
intel d850mvl motherbd.
intel p4  1.7 gig cpu
p4 bb fan
rambus 256mb pc800
40 gighard drive 7200
1.44mb floppy drive
geforce2 mx 32mb
19" .26 dpi monitor
keyboard,mouse,tower case
p-t-i 56k v.90 pci modem
intel 10/100 nic
sony 52x cd rom
altec avs200 speakers
win 98
norton 2001
3 year warranty parts & labor

thanks to all who reply   don
Ian Bel

question for the experts

by Ian Bel » Tue, 05 Feb 2002 08:14:17

Won't kick ass at all mate. To carry on this vernacular,... it'll suck!.
With 2002, you'll be lucky to stay above 30FPS with reasonable detail on
your own on the track and I could see you dropping regularly into the ***s.
The main problem is that graphics card. It's a 1 legged Geforce2 with half
the pipelines of the standard version. Change that to a GeForce 3 Ti200 or a
Radeon 8500 and you'll get more than double the framerates. It will be about
3-4 times the price of the mx you're considering though. The wholesale I
used to work at bought these mx cards in at 23 BTW.
IMHO, Spend the money and get a decent card. I'd also recommend a 1900+ XP
Athlon with an Epox 8KHA+ and 256Mb of good PC2100 DDR Ram, it would be
cheaper and faster than the Intel gear.

Hope this helps

Ian
www.simbin.com


> i am considering a new computer (current one is driving me nuts with
> problems).i want to know if the one i plan on buying will work "overly"
well
> with n4 and or n2002. please inform me if you think i should add anything
or
> take out something and add something else instead. i am looking for
exceptional
> performance with the nascar games.  thanks in advance
> intel d850mvl motherbd.
> intel p4  1.7 gig cpu
> p4 bb fan
> rambus 256mb pc800
> 40 gighard drive 7200
> 1.44mb floppy drive
> geforce2 mx 32mb
> 19" .26 dpi monitor
> keyboard,mouse,tower case
> p-t-i 56k v.90 pci modem
> intel 10/100 nic
> sony 52x cd rom
> altec avs200 speakers
> win 98
> norton 2001
> 3 year warranty parts & labor

machine
> thanks to all who reply   don


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