Gaming system specs, advice needed

Good Lord man, If your company buys this for you, I'm sending them my resume! Good luck!

200 fps but you're driving w/ a keyboard. Get a Logitech FF wheel.

Well, geez . . . what color is it?! --DK [snip]

I'm in the lucky position to be able to get a PC of choice from work, since it will be used at home I'm going for a GAMING system mainly. This is what I'm proposing to the purchasing dept: PIII 733, 256k on-die L2 cashe Intel 820 chipset motherboard with 4XAGP and 128 Mb PC700 RDRAM(350MHz) 20.4Gb Ultra ATA EIDE hard drive (7200 rpm) Soundblaster Live soundcard Altec Lansing THX Certified ADA885 Dolby Digital Speakers with 8" Subwoofer 32 MB NVIDIA geFORCE Plus 4x AGP Video card 19"(18" viewable, .24 - .25AG) Sony Trinitron Monitor 8x max. variable CD-DVD-ROM with HW MPEG Decoding and TV out (DVD speed of 2.5x Min; CD speed of 40x max/17x Min) Is there any aspect of this config that I should consider changing/upgrading for maximum performance?? regards -- Anders http://www.algonet.se/~anils/

> Is there any aspect of this config that I should consider > changing/upgrading for maximum performance?? Hmmm, let me think..............maybe you could buy some gold keyboard with it, lucky bastard. :) Andre

What you want? advice on like what would improve frame rates in various sims?! -- Oli BeoRocket Racing http://www.beorocket.co.yu/

Make sure the GeForce Plus has DDR ram. Otherwise you get fillrate limitations with games like quake3 (the geforce is waiting on the memory so isn't fully utilized). Of course this only matters with fillrate intensive games (z buffer, 32 bit graphics etc.) If you are just playing auto games/sims the regular GeForce will be fine. Chris

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>I'm in the lucky position to be able to get a PC of choice from work, since >it will be used at home I'm going for a *** system mainly. >This is what I'm proposing to the purchasing dept: >PIII 733, 256k on-die L2 cashe >Intel 820 chipset motherboard with 4XAGP and 128 Mb PC700 RDRAM(350MHz) >20.4Gb Ultra ATA EIDE hard drive (7200 rpm) >Soundblaster Live soundcard >Altec Lansing THX Certified ADA885 Dolby Digital Speakers with 8" Subwoofer >32 MB NVIDIA geFORCE Plus 4x AGP Video card >19"(18" viewable, .24 - .25AG) Sony Trinitron Monitor >8x max. variable CD-DVD-ROM with HW MPEG Decoding and TV out (DVD speed of >2.5x Min; >CD speed of 40x max/17x Min) >Is there any aspect of this config that I should consider >changing/upgrading for maximum performance?? >regards >-- >Anders >http://www.algonet.se/~anils/ [address restored]

Oh but I got one allready :-) -- Anders http://www.algonet.se/~anils/

Hi Anders, Confused you posted this exact message on other NG's 4 weeks ago why are you still requiring reassurance when it is you company that is buying it or is it just bragging for the sake of it??? physman

In article <87ncjf$bff$[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (Anders Nilsson) wrote: > I'm in the lucky position to be able to get a PC of choice from work, > since > it will be used at home I'm going for a GAMING system mainly. Hmmm? Your workplace is allowing you to buy a mega pc based around a gaming system, who do you work for? Is this a troll maybe......? 8-) *Peter* - http://www.cix.co.uk/~peterpc/home.html

It appears that Anders is from Sweden. In order for more people to afford a computer the government has decided that you can rent a new computer from you employer(technically, they tend to work with some retailer). The good part is that the cost is deducted from your salary *before* tax. So with taxes ranging from 30-50% it is a bargain. The after usually 3 years you either return the comp. or buy it at its market price. -Bj�rn <[email hidden]> skrev i meddelandet news:87regf$3ab$[email hidden]...

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> In article <87ncjf$bff$[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (Anders > Nilsson) wrote: > > > I'm in the lucky position to be able to get a PC of choice from work, > > since > > it will be used at home I'm going for a GAMING system mainly. > > Hmmm? Your workplace is allowing you to buy a mega pc based around a > gaming system, who do you work for? Is this a troll maybe......? > > 8-) > > *Peter* - http://www.cix.co.uk/~peterpc/home.html

ISP trouble... see previous post below. -- Anders http://www.algonet.se/~anils/

Never mind that, can I have a job ? ;) -- Ian Parker UKGPL League http://members.xoom.com/ukgpl == > > I'm in the lucky position to be able to get a PC of choice from work, > > since > > it will be used at home I'm going for a *** system mainly. > Hmmm? Your workplace is allowing you to buy a mega pc based around a > *** system, who do you work for? Is this a troll maybe......? > 8-) > *Peter* - http://www.cix.co.uk/~peterpc/home.html

Bj�rn Nyhl�n <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:87rgm3$1jq$[email hidden]... > It appears that Anders is from Sweden. In order for more people to afforda > computer the government has decided that you can rent a new computer from > you employer(technically, they tend to work with some retailer). The good > part is that the cost is deducted from your salary *before* tax. So with > taxes ranging from 30-50% it is a bargain. The after usually 3 years you > either return the comp. or buy it at its market price. All of the above is true, but not in my particular case. I "need" a PC at home cause of work, conequently they will buy me one. Nuff said about this very late thread. -- Anders http://www.algonet.se/~anils/

physman <[email hidden]> wrote > Confused you posted this exact message on other NG's 4 weeks ago why areyou > still requiring reassurance when it is you company that is buying it > or is it just bragging for the sake of it??? ISP trouble... see previous post below. >Too late now the system is ordered from DELL, posted this question a good 2 >weeks ago but my ISP apparently did not se fit to post it until now -- Anders http://www.algonet.se/~anils/

Never mind that, can I have a job ? ;) -- Ian Parker [email hidden] UKGPL League http://members.xoom.com/ukgpl == <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:87regf$3ab$[email hidden]... > In article <87ncjf$bff$[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (Anders > Nilsson) wrote: > > > I'm in the lucky position to be able to get a PC of choice from work, > > since > > it will be used at home I'm going for a GAMING system mainly. > > Hmmm? Your workplace is allowing you to buy a mega pc based around a > gaming system, who do you work for? Is this a troll maybe......? > > 8-) > > *Peter* - http://www.cix.co.uk/~peterpc/home.html