Here are my currents system's specs:
Abit BX6r2
IWill II Slotket
Alpha FC-PAL35T Heatsink
w/Delta 38cfm fan
Quantum EL 5.1gig HD
Matrox Mystique AGP G200 w/tv out (2/3 divider setting)
Toshiba 6x DVD
Panasonic 4x/8x CD Recorder
Realmagic Hollywood Plus mpeg decoder card
3Com 905TX Ethernet for Cable modem
Video Highway Extreme 98 TV Tuner/Capture Card
Soundblaster 16 Value
64mb PC133 Hyundai Sdram (settings for RAS-to-CAS=3, RAS Precharge Time=3,
CAS Latency Time=3)
I am into Grand Prix 3 right now and I mostly do hardcore simulation
open-wheel racing like Grand Prix Legends and Monaco Grand Prix Racing
Simulation 2.
What would be my next best upgrade? Video Card (ie. GeForce2, 32mb or
64mb)? Ram (more or CAS 2)? Peltier Cooling?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Get more Ram. 64Mb is not very much by today's standards and will be
seriously holing your system back. I've got 196Mb and that seems pretty good
right now as I aways have some to spare. Geta 128Mb unit to ad to your 64Mb
to get 196MB. try and get 133Mhz but Ii run my 100Mhz at 133 no problem
(it's quality that counts). That should speed your system up no end.
If you have money to spare get a good video card although you can probably
survive a little longer with your current one. Geforce or Geforce 2 GT's are
excellent. The best at the moment is the hercules Geforce 2 GTS 64Mb (pricey
but nice). I'm happy enough with mr Guillemot Geforce DDR 32Mb.
You probably could do with a larger hard disk drive 5.1Gb is small by
today's standards. I've currenyly got about 40GB but I do have rather a lot
of software. 20Gb is plenty.
Your 700Mhz processor is more than you need right now (700's are very
overclockable BTW, put on a good Heatsink and up the bus speed and you and
get around 900Mhz!)
The monitor is the most important piece of kit you can get and a nice good
quality large monito combined witha good graphics card can make games look
so much better. I run GPL at 1600x1200 on a 19in and it just looks absolutly
fantastic (no more jaggies!)
Unfortunately GP3 only runs at a max of 25fps (there is a hack to up that)
so your not making full use of you CPU as it due to that horrible occupancy
problem!
hope I've been of help
Some Call Me Tim
Ram will help...but as far as 3d effects...and 3d accelerated speed, you
need to junk the matrox and look at either a Geforce2 or a Voodoo 5.
Then believe it or not...your Soundblaster 16 may be holding you back
some.
espeicially the joystick port. Try either a newer Sb live or the Aureal
SQ2500.(the Aureal company has filed bankruptcy so you can sometimes get
some good deals at stores like CompUsa or on the web looking to unload
them...The last drivers for the Aureal were pretty mature and solid before
they
closed up shop)
The only reason you need MORE cooling is if you are going to overclock or
overclock MORE than you are at present.
Good luck...I think you will find one expense merely leads to another..the
curse of the Sim-driver Sim-Pilot.
dave henrie
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> Here are my currents system's specs: > > Abit BX6r2 > IWill II Slotket > Alpha FC-PAL35T Heatsink > w/Delta 38cfm fan > Quantum EL 5.1gig HD > Matrox Mystique AGP G200 w/tv out (2/3 divider setting) > Toshiba 6x DVD > Panasonic 4x/8x CD Recorder > Realmagic Hollywood Plus mpeg decoder card > 3Com 905TX Ethernet for Cable modem > Video Highway Extreme 98 TV Tuner/Capture Card > Soundblaster 16 Value > 64mb PC133 Hyundai Sdram (settings for RAS-to-CAS=3, RAS Precharge Time=3, > CAS Latency Time=3) > > I am into Grand Prix 3 right now and I mostly do hardcore simulation > open-wheel racing like Grand Prix Legends and Monaco Grand Prix Racing > Simulation 2. > > What would be my next best upgrade? Video Card (ie. GeForce2, 32mb or > 64mb)? Ram (more or CAS 2)? Peltier Cooling? > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance! > > > > > >I have similar sytem (733--192ram) except more ram and a better video
card. If you like GP3 and GPL you will love the v5 with fsaa. However,
I hear the GTS is good as well and might be a bit better in the
future. Probably wouldn't go wrong with either. Up the ram--changing
timings will get you almost neglibile performance gains. I get 36fps
in GPL at 960x720 x 4aa (and IMHO it looks better than 1600x1200 which
I also get 36fps in) except a couple of tracks like solitude where I
kick it down to 800x600. In GP3 i average about 50-70 PO alone on the
track at 1280x1024x2aa but in Monaco in the rain it can hit 160 or
more in a bad corner on the first lap. In NH demo I get 34 benchmark
at 2AA 1024x768.
Chris
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 18:16:58 GMT, "f13dfx" <[email hidden]> wrote:
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>Here are my currents system's specs: > >Abit BX6r2 >IWill II Slotket >Alpha FC-PAL35T Heatsink >w/Delta 38cfm fan >Quantum EL 5.1gig HD >Matrox Mystique AGP G200 w/tv out (2/3 divider setting) >Toshiba 6x DVD >Panasonic 4x/8x CD Recorder >Realmagic Hollywood Plus mpeg decoder card >3Com 905TX Ethernet for Cable modem >Video Highway Extreme 98 TV Tuner/Capture Card >Soundblaster 16 Value >64mb PC133 Hyundai Sdram (settings for RAS-to-CAS=3, RAS Precharge Time=3, >CAS Latency Time=3) > >I am into Grand Prix 3 right now and I mostly do hardcore simulation >open-wheel racing like Grand Prix Legends and Monaco Grand Prix Racing >Simulation 2. > >What would be my next best upgrade? Video Card (ie. GeForce2, 32mb or >64mb)? Ram (more or CAS 2)? Peltier Cooling? > >Any advice would be greatly appreciated. > >Thanks in advance! > > > > > >Ram and Video. Go to 128 ram and V5 or GF2. I have a V5 and love it.
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> Here are my currents system's specs:
>
> Abit BX6r2
> IWill II Slotket
> Alpha FC-PAL35T Heatsink
> w/Delta 38cfm fan
> Quantum EL 5.1gig HD
> Matrox Mystique AGP G200 w/tv out (2/3 divider setting)
> Toshiba 6x DVD
> Panasonic 4x/8x CD Recorder
> Realmagic Hollywood Plus mpeg decoder card
> 3Com 905TX Ethernet for Cable modem
> Video Highway Extreme 98 TV Tuner/Capture Card
> Soundblaster 16 Value
> 64mb PC133 Hyundai Sdram (settings for RAS-to-CAS=3, RAS Precharge Time=3,
> CAS Latency Time=3)
>
> I am into Grand Prix 3 right now and I mostly do hardcore simulation
> open-wheel racing like Grand Prix Legends and Monaco Grand Prix Racing
> Simulation 2.
>
> What would be my next best upgrade? Video Card (ie. GeForce2, 32mb or
> 64mb)? Ram (more or CAS 2)? Peltier Cooling?
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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