Which Combinaison is the fastest?

I will buy a new PC this month and i want to know which combinaison microprocesor/megRam is the fastest for playing Nascar2 and GP2. For example: pentium 100 and 64MegRam OR pentium 133 and 32MegRam OR pentium 166 and 16MegRam I'm asking this question because the first combinaison cost less than the third one. Thank you !! Guy Cote

Buy the fastest processor you can afford. You can always add more RAM down the road, but for starters I'd say 32megs is the absolute minimum. Save a bit and go for a P166 (preferably an MMX) and 32megs of RAM if you can. There's no sense buying a CPU any slower than that. -- Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences The IWCCCARS Project: Q & A Representative Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/

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> I will buy a new PC this month and i want to know which combinaison > microprocesor/megRam is the fastest for playing Nascar2 and GP2. > For example: pentium 100 and 64MegRam > OR > pentium 133 and 32MegRam > OR > pentium 166 and 16MegRam > I'm asking this question because the first combinaison cost less than the > third one.

Yes, the first combo is cheaper because of lower ram prices... however, the third option is by far the best. Nascar relys heavily on processor / video card speed. Once you have 16mb Ram, anything above is mostly used for saving larger replays. Speed is what will determine video frame rates. Another option is to go with the 133 and a Verite based 3D accelerator (made by Creative Labs, Intergraph, Sierra...) , this may actually prove faster for Nascar 2 than the 166, but slower for practically anything else (including GP2 i suppose)that is not written specifically for the Vertite cards. So, I would recommend getting the fastest processor your money can buy, then upgrade the video card / ram later on. Hope it helps. dglenn

It's more easy to upgrade memory and cheaper. Go for the 166! Pat Davis

The 3rd combination - but it depends on video card, RAM speed (60 vs. 70ns), cache size (0,256,512) etc. However, in Windows 95 and Window NT, the 16 meg system will suffer greatly with excessive demand paging to/from disk. /THansen

The flip side of that is that if you buy a good motherboard (that can take a drop in 166+), a P100 is only ~$100 right now. So you could upgrade the processor later quite easily also and only have tossed out a $100 chip (but you'll have gotten the use of it in the interim...) ---Jim Sokoloff, Papyrus