What's your comp running?

iMac G5 2GHz with 20" LCD monitor
1 Gig of RAM

Runs NL full screen and highest settings at 60fps or so. I'm pretty happy with it.

Athlon 64bit 3400, 1.5gig ram, hyper type r 600watt PSU, Acer 17 inch
LCD, 1x60 gig hd, 1x160 gig hd,2x12cm cooling fans, 1xsony dvd writer,1xlite on dvd writer,1 nvidia 7800GT g/card(256mb). Usually get
70-100 FPS using NL

I bought a NO NAME brand box with a
1st MAINBOARD mother board, 256 MB RAM, Pentium 4 (R) 2.4 Ghz processor.

All I added was the hard drive, floppy, CD ROM drive and a ATI Radeon 9200 AGP video card. I have nothing against Nvidia which is in some cases a better card.

When playing NO LIMITS my frames per second vary between 10 and 100 FPS depending on the size of the game and the amount of scene objects in the sim. For example, when I run my New River Gorge coaster I get between 10 and 70 FPS. It slows down when there is a lot of trees or wood structure to go through. 10 FPS is unacceptable but 30 and above is OK. Your regular television puts out about 30 FPS.

Since I only have 256 MB of RAM I plan on getting more which will probably improve my FPS.

Originally posted by pillar_fan

Originally posted by SFMM homie

http://promotions.newegg.com/NVIDIA/bf2/index.html

I want one of these..... 512 mb. That thing is HOT.

Get the Radeon x1900XT instad, it runs games better and cost alot less then 7800GTX 512mb.

Anyways, here's what I got on my computer

2.8 P4 w/HT Socket 478
ASUS Mobo
1GB Memory
ATI Radeon 9250 256mb
160GB Maxtor Hard Drive
DVD+RW/CD-RW Drive
CD Drive 48x
250w Power Supply

It's crappy, I know but I'm going to built a new computer next month, here the specs the new one


Thermaltake Mambo Case
NEC DVD Burner
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Venice)Socket 939
2GB Memory
ASUS A8R-MVP Crossfire Mobo
ATI Radeon x1900XT PCI-E
ASPIRE 600w Power Supply
Western Digital 250GB SATA 3GB/s Hard Drive
SAMSUNG Floppy Drive

all that for less then $1,500

In your case I would rather invest some more money and buy the 4000+. If you overclock this thing a bit you'll have the perfect gaming PC togetger with you graphics card. I also have the 3500+ Venice, it's running fine, but with such an awesome graphics card I would buy an awesome processor too! (Although the 3500+ is already damn sexy!)

Originally posted by ish

Originally posted by pillar_fan

Originally posted by SFMM homie

http://promotions.newegg.com/NVIDIA/bf2/index.html

I want one of these..... 512 mb. That thing is HOT.

Get the Radeon x1900XT instad, it runs games better and cost alot less then 7800GTX 512mb.

Anyways, here's what I got on my computer

2.8 P4 w/HT Socket 478
ASUS Mobo
1GB Memory
ATI Radeon 9250 256mb
160GB Maxtor Hard Drive
DVD+RW/CD-RW Drive
CD Drive 48x
250w Power Supply

It's crappy, I know but I'm going to built a new computer next month, here the specs the new one


Thermaltake Mambo Case
NEC DVD Burner
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Venice)Socket 939
2GB Memory
ASUS A8R-MVP Crossfire Mobo
ATI Radeon x1900XT PCI-E
ASPIRE 600w Power Supply
Western Digital 250GB SATA 3GB/s Hard Drive
SAMSUNG Floppy Drive

all that for less then $1,500

In your case I would rather invest some more money and buy the 4000+. If you overclock this thing a bit you'll have the perfect gaming PC togetger with you graphics card. I also have the 3500+ Venice, it's running fine, but with such an awesome graphics card I would buy an awesome processor too! (Although the 3500+ is already damn sexy!)

Pfff... I overclocked my 64 3000+, and it is now as fast as a 3800+! I think it has enough power for every game, while not beeing overclocked to the max. [which is 4000+]

My Pc:

Athlon 64 3000+ @ 3800+
MSI K8N Ultra Neo 4 Platinum
2gb Corsair RAM (don't know exactly, but they were expensive[:D]
X800 XL @ X800 XT [custom cooler]
2x 180gb Seagate Hard Drive [Raid]
1x 100gb Samsung Hard Drive
400w Power supply

Cost: ~500????????? (I bought the parts at a Wholesale, and assembled it at home]

I love how PC specs become status symbols in the PC world.

[gouldy]

Originally posted by Edge

Mines running the London Marathon again this year. Hopefully we can do better than last year

wtf?

Mine is only young, building it up to the Marathon, by doing the great north run for a couple of years first [;)][lol]

Seriously though:

My computer is better than yours [:)]. God damn, only a few months ago I was dreaming of saying that. The specs are on here somewhere already, if you care that much, go find them, as i cannot be arsed to type them up [:)]

Originally posted by SMer

Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music soundcard (KICKS BUTT)

Amen to that.

AMD 64 bit 3400+ at 2.24 Ghz
MSI K-8T neo mobo
2 GB corsair ram (1x 1 gb 2x 512 sticks)
256 mb Nvidia 5700
X-fi Xtreme Music
DVD-RW
DVD-Rom
Saitek Gamers Keyboard
180 total GB HD space
Antec Sonata case (computer hardly makes a sound)
Logitech 4.1 stereo and headset
x2 17" Samsung SyncMaster 710T displays LCD
and
a kick ass 3 -1/2" floppy drive that owns all.

Originally posted by ish

Originally posted by pillar_fan

Originally posted by SFMM homie

http://promotions.newegg.com/NVIDIA/bf2/index.html

I want one of these..... 512 mb. That thing is HOT.

Get the Radeon x1900XT instad, it runs games better and cost alot less then 7800GTX 512mb.

Anyways, here's what I got on my computer

2.8 P4 w/HT Socket 478
ASUS Mobo
1GB Memory
ATI Radeon 9250 256mb
160GB Maxtor Hard Drive
DVD+RW/CD-RW Drive
CD Drive 48x
250w Power Supply

It's crappy, I know but I'm going to built a new computer next month, here the specs the new one


Thermaltake Mambo Case
NEC DVD Burner
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Venice)Socket 939
2GB Memory
ASUS A8R-MVP Crossfire Mobo
ATI Radeon x1900XT PCI-E
ASPIRE 600w Power Supply
Western Digital 250GB SATA 3GB/s Hard Drive
SAMSUNG Floppy Drive

all that for less then $1,500

In your case I would rather invest some more money and buy the 4000+. If you overclock this thing a bit you'll have the perfect gaming PC togetger with you graphics card. I also have the 3500+ Venice, it's running fine, but with such an awesome graphics card I would buy an awesome processor too! (Although the 3500+ is already damn sexy!)

I could but it cost over $130 more then the 3500+, plus $1,500 is my budget limit right now. Also I might get the 3700+ instead since it fits into my budget and like MACchiato said, I could overclock it to the 4000+ speed.

my computer has just had a major over hall. ok here we go:-

apollo liquid cooled eletric alien case (it has 7 diffrent fans that are all electronicall controled, slill dont know why you need tht many fans?)
Athon64 4000Skt 939 processor running at 4.2 ghz
4 gig of ram (4 x 1 gb)
2 x 250 gb hard drives
Trust 5.1 PCI Sound
pinical fire wire and video processor card
digital tv card
x1300 radion ati 512 mb pci express x16 graphics card.
22" sony tft wide screen, also used as my tv
dvd-rw
dvd-rom
and finally a network card as the three computer in my house are connected.

this is the best setup i have ever had and the fps rate on no limits never drops below 60 whatever scenrey ro how much support work there is.

mostly i use this computer for auto cad work as i am studdying structual engeneering at univercity. only 1 more year and i will have a degree, its taken me a wile to do as i work full time and have had to do it at weekends and nights.

[gouldy]

^ Dude, awesome! Only one thing, how can you have your monitor as your tv man? That's no good, I'd be lost if I couldn't talk on msn AND watch the footy at the same time. I'll stay with my 19" LCD monitor with my 22" TV over the the left there <<<

I have 1.5 GB of ram

Originally posted by gouldy

^ Dude, awesome! Only one thing, how can you have your monitor as your tv man? That's no good, I'd be lost if I couldn't talk on msn AND watch the footy at the same time. I'll stay with my 19" LCD monitor with my 22" TV over the the left there <<<

with the tv card i have the option of haveing a small screen in the bottom right hand corner. (just like you can with windows media player). its so cool now i have it up and running after 2 months, yeah its taken me that long to get all of the components and put them together. total cost of the system has amouted to ?????????1497.50. costly but world class.

Sempron 3100+ (1.8ghz)
Radeon 8x AGP 256mb
512 mb system memory

x1300 radion ati 512 mb pci express x16 graphics card.

Doesn't that one actually suck?
Or did you mean 1800?

Originally posted by gazag

my computer has just had a major over hall. ok here we go:-

this is the best setup i have ever had and the fps rate on no limits never drops below 60 whatever scenrey ro how much support work there is.

mostly i use this computer for auto cad work as i am studdying structual engeneering at univercity. only 1 more year and i will have a degree, its taken me a wile to do as i work full time and have had to do it at weekends and nights.

LOL, Your about to get a structural engineering degree with CADD but you cant spell any of the following.

-Overhaul
-Scenery
-CADD
-Studying
-Structural
-Engineering
-University
-While

Looks like the buildings of the future will be falling over. [:o)]

[coolbeans326]

^
Anyways, I don't understand how the Radeon graphics cards work.
is x850 their top of the line card? or is it thier x1800 or w/e?

Processor :
Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840 800MHz FSB LGA 775 Dual Core, EM64T Processor - This thing is way too hot, needs some serious cooling!

Motherboard :
ASUS P5WD2-E Premium ATX Intel Motherboard

Memory :
1Gb DDR2 PC-6400 Gold Series Dual Channel

Video Card :
3Dlabs Dual 3Dlabs Visual Processing Units Realizm 800 Video Card

[gouldy]

Originally posted by SFMM homie

LOL, Your about to get a structural engineering degree with CADD but you cant spell any of the following.

-Overhaul
-Scenery
-CADD
-Studying
-Structural
-Engineering
-University
-While

Looks like the buildings of the future will be falling over. [:o)]

ey? CAD, is CAD, Computer Aided Design, that doesn't spell CADD and fortunately, you do not have to spell to design a building [;)]

X1800 is the top of the line coolbeans, err....was.....now it's the x1900.
CAD sucks, It's all about PAD! (paper-aided-design!!) lol, jk CAD is awesome, got two versions here...[/random]

Sure is CADD!

*smart ass mode on*

Computer Aided Design and Drafting.

*smart ass mode off*

*smart ass mode jammed on*

Originally posted by coolbeans326

^
Anyways, I don't understand how the Radeon graphics cards work.
is x850 their top of the line card? or is it thier x1800 or w/e?

x850 is the top ATi AGP 8x. The x1900 is currently or soon to be currently their top of the line card with 48 pixel pipelines. (mine only has 4 [:(]

sorry i ment the 1800x.

it is CAD, the drafting is done on auto sketch. auto sketch is basicly a simple version of CAD. Drawing on CAD takes weeks to produce a good quality, to scale 3d render. auto sketch is just line drawings and frame work with simple textures.

i know i cannot spell, that is my major draw back but when have you got to spell when designing and building a suspention bridge out of wood that can support the weight of 3 men. that is my final project for the corse.

lol, Matt and I are right, CADD, Computer aided Drafitng AND DESIGN.

[gouldy]

I have software here called Auto CAD for piss sake

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q= ... arch&meta=

check the amount of search results for CAD:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&sa ... arch&meta=

now check the amount of search results for CADD:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&sa ... arch&meta=


I think you'll find CAD is more correcter