This probably might be a trip down memory lane........... :)
Dedicated game box:
Asus A7N8X-E-Deluxe
Windows 2K sp4
AMD "Barton" 2500+ (not overclocked)
1GB Mushkin/Winbond DDR400 RAM
Gainward Gforce 4 ti4800SE (agp) video card (8x, 128M ram)
used mostly to play MS FS 2002, SerSam, Ghost Recon, MOH
This box is getting ready for a hd change from scsi to eide/sata...
some time in the future........?
Test game box (for the two last Tomb Raider issues):
Asus CUBX
Windows XP pro SP3
Intel P-800E
512MB Mushkin/Infineon PC133 RAM
eVGA nVidia FX5500 (agp) video card (2x, 256MB)
used for general XP learning, TR Legend, TR Anniversary
Both machines run solid as concrete. But, as you can guess, I've only
bought 2 new games in the last 7 years! And, I think I can recall ~2hr of
gaming in the last 4 years............ :)
Duncan
At 12:39 09/24/2008 -0500, Stan wrote:
My old setup was an Epox NF4 Ultra mobo with an Athlon 64 FX55 running
about 2.8 GHz and the upgrade has the Biostar 790GX/SB750 chipset and an
Athlon 64 X2 5400+ BE running again about 2.8 GHz. Both had the same 4850
video card and the same 2 gigs of RAM. The only difference is between DX9
XP Home and DX10.1 Vista64 Home Premium. Now I have yet to use the
benchmarking utility for Crysis (all patched up of course) but it ran
smoothly enough at that resolution and medium settings before that I had
no problem getting my crosshairs on the Koreans and fragging them. Now
however it visibly stutters and I attribute that to Vista and of course
the 64 bit version has been widely reported to also be slower for gaming.
Hopefully more RAM will help. What kind of boxes do the rest of the list
members use for gaming?Gam
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