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02/02/2007 - "Where the bloody Hell have you been?"

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:35
by TheDarkArchon
Yes, I am still active, though those on the various Doom forums, as well as the Court Records froums, will already know this. Anyway, I just ordered myself a new PC. Costing me just over £1250 including delivery, it has a Core 2 Duo E6600, 2Gb of 533MHz DDR2 RAM, a 320 Gb Hard Disk and a GeForce 8800 GTS with 640Mb of RAM.

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:51
by wildweasel
Damn...you officially outclass my system. Mine's a Pentium D 3.0 GHz with 2 GB of RAM (unknown speed and interface), 160 GB hard drive and two GeForce 7900 GT's with a total of 512 MB of memory.

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:51
by grubber
You both officially outclass all of my computers :P I've got:
  1. My PC - Celeron 900 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 250+20 GB HDD, Radeon 9200 with 128 MB RAM
  2. Gateway/server - Pentium 166 MHz, 32 MB RAM, 1.5 GB HDD
  3. Multimedia player - AMD K6-2 450 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 1 GB HDD
  4. "Studio" PC - Pentium 150 MHz, 32 MB RAM, 5 GB HDD
All of these are running Linux and serve their purpose just fine.

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:39
by Snarboo
Yeah, OSs based on Linux are usually less system intensive than Windows. Which is a good thing, IMO. :)

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 0:18
by TheDarkArchon
About OS-itude, it's coming with Vista, though I'll probabally end up dual-booting with Linux like I do with my laptop (May not use SuSE this time round, though *eyes up Kubuntu*)

Anyway, I haven't actually received it yet: I've just ordered it, due the 2nd of March (20 days at time of posting)

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:48
by Bouncy
Pentium 4 3.2 ghz
4 GB ram
2 400 GB hard drives
Radeon X1900 XTX 512 MB.

hoorah. :)

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 14:35
by Graf Zahl
Grubber wrote:You both officially outclass all of my computers :P I've got:
  1. My PC - Celeron 900 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 250+20 GB HDD, Radeon 9200 with 128 MB RAM

Ugh... That'd be too slow for me - even when playing Doom. :mrgreen:

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 17:53
by TheDarkArchon
Bouncy wrote:Pentium 4 3.2 ghz
4 GB ram
2 400 GB hard drives
Radeon X1900 XTX 512 MB.

hoorah. :)
Hoorah for one of the most power inefficent processors ever made? :P (Is it the current gen numbered ones or the old speed named ones?)

Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 3:34
by Bouncy
TheDarkArchon wrote:
Bouncy wrote:Pentium 4 3.2 ghz
4 GB ram
2 400 GB hard drives
Radeon X1900 XTX 512 MB.

hoorah. :)
Hoorah for one of the most power inefficent processors ever made? :P (Is it the current gen numbered ones or the old speed named ones?)
absolutely no idea. :sniped:

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 18:27
by TheDarkArchon
Update: I'm having to wait another week since the system builders screwed up, which essentially sways me towards building my own next time.

Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 23:44
by TheDarkArchon
Update 2: It's here and it's even faster than I was expecting. Oblivion + all details set to max or on (bar HDR because it means losing AA and I'm sensitive to jagged edges) + 1280x1024 + a smooth 60hz framerate is awesome.

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 1:35
by wildweasel
GAAAAH DAMN YOU! I can't even run it at a sane framerate at 1280x1024 with no HDR, AA, or ansitropic(sp?) filtering. I can maintain a steady 30 FPS running 1280x800 on my widescreen TV, though.

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 19:39
by grubber
Anisotropic. Opposite of isotropic.

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 13:29
by TheDarkArchon
Minor update: This post is coming to you courtesy of my new computer :D