On Thursday 29 Dec 2005 18:57, Paul Surgeon wrote: > On Thursday 29 December 2005 13:24, dene maxwell wrote: > > I suspect that stressing this to my PC builder will remove > > the same "but if" factor from their build. > > IE I have $NZ700. This is the minimum spec.....any left over > > money will be spent of these items in this order: Video > > processor, Video ram, CPU processor, System RAM, HDD speed, > > HDD size > > Dene, it may be a good idea to shop around a bit first. > Also putting a PC together yourself is a lot of fun and saves > some money too. > > I don't live in New Zealand but I checked out some prices > online and you can get a system with the following specs for > under $NZ 700 : > > - AMD Sempron 2400+ (1667MHz) Socket A 333MHz FSB 256KB Cache > Boxed with Heatsink & Fan > - VIAKM400A Chipset motherboard, Socket A, 400MHz FSB, 2xDIMM, > 1xAGP, 3xPCI, 2xATA133, 6xUSB2, Onboard Graphics, Audio, LAN, > Micro ATX - 512MB DDR400 > - HLC9632B Midi Tower Case 350W PSU Black ATX > - Hitachi 80GB 7200rpm ATA100 2 MB Cache > - Samsung 3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive, Beige > - Pixelview GeForce 6600 256MB DDR 8x AGP Graphics Card > > So now you have a fairly decent system with a very good video > card, fast DDR400 RAM, a half decent processor and twice the > amount of secondary storage space. > > If you're an Intel fan then you'll have to get something a lot > slower because of the price difference but I can guarentee you > that a Sempron 2400+ will be a *lot* faster than PIII clocked > at less that 1 GHz. Even the old, budget, AMD Durons gave the > PIII's a run for their money. > > Paul
I would have to agree with Paul regarding choice of processor on your budget. I run an old Athlon XP+ 1900 (1600MHz) and this has the same 256Kb cache as the Sempron. I believe that in addition to the higher FSB speed, the Sempron has a few other improvements over my old cpu. My video card is nVidia 6600 based with 256 MB ram and at 1600x1200 I typically get between 40-20 fps. Unless you intend running at a lower screen res I wouldn't think about getting anything slower than the Sempron 2400+. I've had a _lot_ of problems with an ATI 9200 based card, not just with FG but also with other OGL apps, especially one that I beta test for, and even with the developers dealing directly with ATI those problems have still not been satisfactorily resolved. No ATI discussions please. LeeE ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
