Hi all,
Currently running a PIII600, 128MB, V5 5500 AGP system and although
able to run N4 adequately with things turned down and a cut-down field
of AI cars I am looking into what the possibilities are upgrade wise.
From what I can gather my processor is now the bottleneck so I am
unlikely to gain that much of an advantage by picking up a GeForce
card (please let me know if this is not the case). With that in mind I
would be interested to know your opinions on the motherboard \ cpu
configurations that would give me the best value sim wise.
Money is quiet an issue for me at the moment as I am taking the family
to the States for 3 weeks in September so I have to count the pennies
carefully....
TIA
PH
Not for nothing, but I have a buddy that runs N4 well on a stock Cow-way
(Gateway, lol) PIII 450, 128 RAM, with whatever TNT card they were
installing about 18 months ago (16MB VRAM maybe). I have heard stories about
the V series of cards and own a V3 2000 pci (In my N4/N3 server) and can say
I think your system is up to spec, just unsure about voodoo's D3D
implementation. I have a bone stock (read:old) GeForce 256 32mb card on a
PIII 667 with 256/MB RAM and with 15 cars ahead, 7 behind and smoke and dust
turned off (the only way to race online) everything else on and get 40+ fps
on most tracks. If I get down to 30fps, I turn off the grandstands and it
picks back up to near 40+ in a pack, on or offline.
My suggestion would be to drop 70-80 bucks on 128mb RAM, and pickup a new
video card of your choice and I would think you would be absoulutly fine
unless you run everything on with 43 cars at say any track shorter than 1
mile, even then triovals can get choppy thru the trioval sections...I run my
GeForce in OpenGL, 1024X768X32, and am not over clocking anything (v'card or
CPU). I get similar performance in D3D, but OpenGL seems to give me a few
extra FPS.
Best of luck to ya,
edb
Peter Hooper <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> Hi all, > > Currently running a PIII600, 128MB, V5 5500 AGP system and although > able to run N4 adequately with things turned down and a cut-down field > of AI cars I am looking into what the possibilities are upgrade wise. > From what I can gather my processor is now the bottleneck so I am > unlikely to gain that much of an advantage by picking up a GeForce > card (please let me know if this is not the case). With that in mind I > would be interested to know your opinions on the motherboard \ cpu > configurations that would give me the best value sim wise. > > Money is quiet an issue for me at the moment as I am taking the family > to the States for 3 weeks in September so I have to count the pennies > carefully.... > > TIA > > PHHi Peter , IMHO you'd be best with a Duron 700 o/c to 1Gz
on an Abit , in the UK that would come in at �185. Probably less in any
other Country !
John
Peter Hooper <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> Hi all, > > Currently running a PIII600, 128MB, V5 5500 AGP system and although > able to run N4 adequately with things turned down and a cut-down field > of AI cars I am looking into what the possibilities are upgrade wise. > From what I can gather my processor is now the bottleneck so I am > unlikely to gain that much of an advantage by picking up a GeForce > card (please let me know if this is not the case). With that in mind I > would be interested to know your opinions on the motherboard \ cpu > configurations that would give me the best value sim wise. > > Money is quiet an issue for me at the moment as I am taking the family > to the States for 3 weeks in September so I have to count the pennies > carefully.... > > TIA > > PHQuoted text (8 lines)
> > Money is quiet an issue for me at the moment as I am taking the family > to the States for 3 weeks in September so I have to count the pennies > carefully.... > > TIA > > PHThanks for the info guys....
I'll check your suggestions out.
PH
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 23:31:00 -0000, "Phil Lee" <[email hidden]>
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>> >> Money is quiet an issue for me at the moment as I am taking the family >> to the States for 3 weeks in September so I have to count the pennies >> carefully.... >> >> TIA >> >> PH > >Since price is important you might want to go for a cheaper processor which >is overclocked. Check out the following offers from >http://www.overclockers.co.uk: > >http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_AMD_Duron_Bundles_41 >.html > >Abit KT7A-RAID/AMD Duron 750 Guaranteed to 950MHz+/GlobalWin FOP32-1 �205.58 > >Abit KT7A-RAID/AMD Duron 800 Guaranteed to 1GHz+/GlobalWin FOP32-1 - Bundle >�218.21 > >Abit KT7A-RAID/AMD Duron 800 Guaranteed to 1GHz+/ThermoEngine V60-4210 - >Bundle �229.96 > >Abit KT7A/AMD Duron 750 Guaranteed to 950MHz+/GlobalWin FOP32-1 - Bundle >�187.88 > >Abit KT7A/AMD Duron 800 Guaranteed to 1GHz+/GlobalWin FOP32-1 - Bundle >�201.10 > >etc. > > >Also see: >http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_AMD_TBird_Bundles_40 >.html > >Abit KT7A/AMD Thunderbird 850 Guaranteed to 1GHz+/GlobalWin FOP32-1 - Bundle >�237.82 > > >Hope this helps. > >Cheers > >PhilOn Thu, 01 Mar 2001 21:40:17 GMT, "john"
<[email hidden]> wrote:
>Hi Peter , IMHO you'd be best with a Duron 700 o/c to 1Gz
>on an Abit , in the UK that would come in at �185. Probably less in any
>other Country !
>John
AMD just pulled certification on Abit boards for some reason. I would
go with Asus.
