Opinions/Experience on New System

For any responses. I am a hooked auto sim junky, but I prefer GPL, Nascar 4, and F12001 (more realistic sims). I also like Falcon 4 with all of the upgrades that have been incorporated. My problem is my overclocked Celeron 450 and Voodoo 3 can no longer handle all of the improvements that have been made to all of the above sims. I have not heard much in the way of performance of all the the sims mentioned above with the system that I am considering below . I'm finally ready to take the plunge and purchase a new system. I am thinking about an Athlon 2100 and a Gforce 4 4600 but haven't heard much in the way of specific performance of this combination. Can someone share their experience with the above or refer me to a report on performance with the mentioned sims? I am interested in resolutions vs. graphics settings (antialiasing and anisotropic filtering) vs. framerates. Thanks in advance, Wayne

The performance of that combo will be sooooo far ahead of your old system, it won't matter if it's not 100% compatible. Make sure you get plenty of ddr ram and the BEST heatsink fan you can find. Good luck. dave henrie "Wayne Stelly" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:DjMw8.49180$[email hidden]... > For any responses. I am a hooked auto sim junky, but I prefer GPL, Nascar > 4, and F12001 (more realistic sims). I also like Falcon 4 with all of the > upgrades that have been incorporated. My problem is my overclockedCeleron > 450 and Voodoo 3 can no longer handle all of the improvements that havebeen > made to all of the above sims. I have not heard much in the way of > performance of all the the sims mentioned above with the system that I am > considering below . I'm finally ready to take the plunge and purchase anew > system. I am thinking about an Athlon 2100 and a Gforce 4 4600 buthaven't > heard much in the way of specific performance of this combination. > > Can someone share their experience with the above or refer me to a reporton

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> performance with the mentioned sims? I am interested in resolutions vs. > graphics settings (antialiasing and anisotropic filtering) vs. framerates. > > Thanks in advance, > > Wayne > >

HI there Wayne, I've a AMD 1.4Ghz, with 500+memory, and a GeForce 2GTS ( 64mb ddr ) and have also looked at getting a GeForce 4 Ti4600, the only problem is the amount in the uk as there are 0..........? as yet.... The specks you mention will be fine, make sure the AGP port on the mainboard is x2,x4 as the Geforce 4 isnt x1 agp speed, if its a new one...it should have that, i use the ABit mainboards as they are the fastest and most stable... dont get anything like a Lexmainboard or something with on board sound... ok. More depends on the operating systerm, and this again is a touchy subject, i have all the OS's but have gone back to Win98SE as i find thats the most stable for F1-2001. Nascar 4 flys on it....and GPL is good to, my frame counter sits at 36fps.all the time, even with the hi-res updates... Im not sure if anything really uses anisotropic filtering, well only x-boxs games, and thats what they are (games). Your system will fly... make sure you get a huge monitor ie..20" or above..ive got a 21" and can play F1-2001 in 1280x1024 very easily, yet again with all the latest hi res car skins. Ive got Falcon 4 but have never really tried it to be honest, what sort of upgrades do they do.... Oh yeah as for fans... try www.overclockers.com as they are a good UK based company........get the silent fans though as ive some monster ones and they have drove me nuts... so im now in the process of making my case quiter.. ie a trip to halfords and bought some Dynmat.........very good Also worth getting is a Wheel and pedal set...if you mad about sims you may have one already, Ive built my own cockpit to ( sad ) but my other half moans about it all the time...lol Paul. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------- www.mini-z-racer.com ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------- Its time to face finality, to do it, to stop, think, walk away and let it be. ------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------------------------

Just replaced an OC'ed Celery 300A/450-V3 box with an XP1800/Abit KR7A-KT266A/LeadtekGF4-4400/SBAudigy/256MB, and it flies on anything I've run it on so far. Don't have everything installed on it yet, but GPL, NR2002, Nascar Heat and SBK2000 look and work great; you certainly won't be disappointed. Colors are a bit too vivid for my taste ATM, but I'll get that toned down. Generally running stuff in D3D at 12X10 (12X9 in NR2002), 16bit color, with Qunicinux AA and AF level of 4, with most or all in-game settings at max. No FPs problems, stuttering, or anything. Using the 28.32 drivers with a fixed 512MB swapfile on the "D" partition (98SE on 2GB "C"). Only thing I've noticed is some popup at long draw distances, even with full draw distance set in the games. Don't remember this from the V3; anyone know of a way to get rid of this with an Nvidia Tweak? Thx, SB "Wayne Stelly" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:DjMw8.49180$[email hidden]... > For any responses. I am a hooked auto sim junky, but I prefer GPL, Nascar > 4, and F12001 (more realistic sims). I also like Falcon 4 with all of the > upgrades that have been incorporated. My problem is my overclockedCeleron > 450 and Voodoo 3 can no longer handle all of the improvements that havebeen > made to all of the above sims. I have not heard much in the way of > performance of all the the sims mentioned above with the system that I am > considering below . I'm finally ready to take the plunge and purchase anew > system. I am thinking about an Athlon 2100 and a Gforce 4 4600 buthaven't > heard much in the way of specific performance of this combination. > > Can someone share their experience with the above or refer me to a reporton

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> performance with the mentioned sims? I am interested in resolutions vs. > graphics settings (antialiasing and anisotropic filtering) vs. framerates. > > Thanks in advance, > > Wayne > > >

If you can, wait a bit (around mid - late May) for the new .13 AMD XPs to come out, they will run a bit cooler & won't be as picky about cooling as the current batch is. The price won't be much higher than the 2100 is now if you can wait a while. Then again, you could get this same advice in a month & wait for the next big deal... & never buy one at all. ;( That said, if "I" were going to upgrade now I would wait for the .13 & build a system around it. HTH, Brian "Wayne Stelly" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:DjMw8.49180$[email hidden]... > For any responses. I am a hooked auto sim junky, but I preferGPL, Nascar > 4, and F12001 (more realistic sims). I also like Falcon 4 withall of the > upgrades that have been incorporated. My problem is myoverclocked Celeron > 450 and Voodoo 3 can no longer handle all of the improvementsthat have been > made to all of the above sims. I have not heard much in the wayof > performance of all the the sims mentioned above with the systemthat I am > considering below . I'm finally ready to take the plunge andpurchase a new > system. I am thinking about an Athlon 2100 and a Gforce 4 4600but haven't > heard much in the way of specific performance of thiscombination. > > Can someone share their experience with the above or refer me toa report on > performance with the mentioned sims? I am interested inresolutions vs. > graphics settings (antialiasing and anisotropic filtering) vs.framerates.

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> > Thanks in advance, > > Wayne > > >

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 01:29:56 GMT, "B Farmer" <[email hidden]> wrote: > >Then again, you could get this same advice in a month & wait for >the next big >deal... & never buy one at all. ;( >Yeah, it's like "Weird Al" Yankovic says in "It's All About the Pentiums," ....."my new computer's got the clocks, it rocks...but it was obsolete before I opened the box!"