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Will your pc play the latest games?

rruwalton said:
Very funny Mel :D

I only wish I was joking, even if I had XP, it would probably advise me to stick to Ludo - It's four years old this month :eek: (I guess about the equivalent of 120 in human years :laugh: ) If you want to sing it happy birthday, I've always called it a Total Pile of Sh__ , although it says Mesh on the box.
 
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Web buddy, it seems you are making opinions without actually seeing any of what you mentioned.

Ok, for games the most important thing is the graphics card. Thats the truth and I cant be persuaded otherwise.

Of course memory, processor etc are all important, but not as much so.

I say also you need 512mb at least for new games. I have only 512 (though I am due a delivery today with an extra 512mb and some more nice stuff ;) ) and playing farcry is fine. However after playing trying to do anything after takes ages, as all the RAM has been used up. I'd hate to try it with 256.

I build computers for people, and for windows XP I wouldnt put less than 256 in, even if it was just for general use.

Anyway, back onto the crux of the discussion. Graphics cards.

Stay one behind if you have the money. When the 9800pros were the big thing, I was using a 9600pro for a while, which could cope with everything I threw at it. Now I have a 9800, and I can do things with it I couldnt with the 9600. All the pretty stuff and higher res's on the newest games.

No I cant see any point in having the very latest card, not the £300 jobs anyway. However if your a gamer and like the pretty stuff, then you do have to keep up.

Web buddy, you seem to go on the assumption that all gamers dont know what they are doing. :rolleyes:
 
Old dude, many people swallow the pill and part with their money and then have to justify the expenditure to everyone be it hi-fi, a car, or a graphics card etc

What many of us are aware of is that we don't need to spend the money to get the results we need.

I have no issue with people who want to spend their money but they can't expect other people to believe the expenditure is totally neccessary.

:)
 
Errrm. You miss what Im saying. Im not after anyone to beleive me its nessacary, I dont go around advertising the new cards.

Im also not saying your average jo needs the latest card, certainly not. If your not gaming, a £40 card will do you fine.

If I can see a difference in performance between cards, and I have, then if I can afford it I will get it.

Its something I enjoy doing that I want to spend my hard earned on.

I am not nieve in any way, and I certainly havent swallowed any pill!

Many people said you dont even need 512 ram for games. Im getting 1 gig, because I dont want to restart my pc everytime I finished playing farcry because it runs so slow for a while.

The only people that get the £300-400 cards are usually the ones that boast online and have their machine specs in their sigs in forums.
 
512 meg RAM on FarCry was appauling on my PC. It was forever using the hard drive as virtual memory, and although i have fast hard drives they are nowhere near as fast as a ram with an 800MHz FSB. And as soon as i exited back to windows there was like a 5 min delay before i could do sod all and the game took like 10 mins to load....i know u dont believe me that RAM makes a huge difference but it does. If u cannot get data to the graphics card fast enough (it doesnt matter if its a geforce 4 mx or the latest geforce 6800 ultra running in twin SLI mode) you will get a jerky frame rate and high loading times.

but as for a high FSB decreasing the amount of RAM u need??? thats not true as the FSB just dictates how fast u can get data to and from the RAM not how much u can store on it....and if ur data TO the RAM is coming off ur hard drive it doesnt matter how fast ur FSB is as 10 year old EDO 60ns RAM is far faster than any modern hard drive
 
Here's a concept.
Some people play online games competetively, not just as a casual leisure activity. Sure we could play our game of choice at 640 x 480 on a PIII with a Radeon 7000 video card, but there's no way I would want to? I for one *want* to play my games at a minimum of 1164 x 868, have it look good and still get decent FPS. High performance requires high end hardware, but that's just the way it is.

My specs; (not boasting Old Dude, just giving an example ;))
Athlon 3000+
1.5GB DDR 333 (512MB partitioned to RAMDISK)
Radeon 9800 Pro (O/C @ 425mhz core: 720mhz mem)
SB Audigy 2 ZS
Asus A7N8-X Delux Mobo
2 x WD 120GB 8mb cache HDD
Iiyama VM Pro 412 monitor

I honestly have no idea how much I've spent on that, but for now it gives me the performance I need to play how I want. When it gets to the stage where it doesn't give me the performance I need, I'll upgrade whatever parts I have to.

Sum total, everyone has different needs. If you're happy playing your game of choice at 640 x 480 (or higher with horrible FPS), good luck to you. Don't assume you can critise me for spending more on a higher spec rig though.
 
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yes exactly...u dont need a geforce 6800 to play the latest games..but then none of us 'performance gamers' here are using them...i myself am on a geforce 4 TI and it does the job admirably at anything up to and including 1280x1024...and as splatteredcat says - once it stops doing what i want it to do i will upgrade the parts i have to...not necessarily the graphics card..maybe the ram, cpu or motherboard.

There really is no pill involved, u can see with ur own eyes what works and what doesnt..and if u r competant with pc hardware from this it is easy to make a judgement (without using benchmark software) as to what u need to do to ur pc to make it run as desired. If it works i dont upgrade it...if it starts lagging behind its time to upgrade - simple as.

At the mo i need more storage as my 200GB maxtor and 80GB maxtor drives are getting full....once they both reach 85% capacity i will upgrade
 
Well, looking by whats said here, it only works on Win XP?

Which I wont have for a few reasons.

The main being you have to buy a licence. Fair enough. But I dont want to buy a full one, which is a ridiculas £165 odd.

The OEM is next to usless for me, as I upgrade my pc every so often. The OEM while cheap (about £70) is for one computer only. This means you cannot use it on a new one, even if the old one is no longer used.

Its locked to the motherboard, to the actual one so even if you replace it with exactly the same model, its still locked.

Microsoft being plain greedy, say that if you change the motherboard, its classed as a new computer. Even if your motherboard blows, and you replace it with exactly the same model, its still a new PC in their eyes so you have to buy another licence.

So you can see why I am on win2000.
 
I'm trying to use Firefox as much as possible but had to resort to Explorer to check the program out.
 
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Wouldn't run with me at all, says i need XP/IE5.5 or better (I got 2003/IE6.0) :shrug:
By the way, Webbuddy and RRU, I'm wondering what you guys think thats good enough for todays games? :confused: Farcry runs flawlessly on mine, and now Battlefield 1942's mod DCX 7.2d runs great too :D

This is My Computer
 
Old dude:- as long as you use an oem version on only 1 pc you can change mainboard,graphics card or anything as often as you like/need to but when you come to register the os you will have to get in touch with Microsoft by telephone cos your only allowed to do it so many(I've been told 5x in 6months but am not sure if this is correct) times within a certain time frame without having to do this:- you dont have to buy a new licence if you change things.I have also been told that after 6months of not registering/reregistering the record for that oem version starts from scratch again
 
Jarman said:
OMG get win XP corporate version...no need to activate

But to get the corporate version you either have to work for an organisation that buys bulk licensing (and purchase a license) or acquire it through other, less savoury, channels.
:eek:
 
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butler said:
What...Windows ME !!!!!!!
:)

Nothing wrong with ME.... It has been a stable platform for the past couple of years on one of the PC's here! (it has outlived about 12 re-installs of XP on the gaming machines....)

I would have thought more in the line of Windoze 95, or NT Workstation
:crap:
 
butler said:
Ahhh...
but....



Another possibility could be that Mrs Giles just uses her machine and doesn't tinker with it like on a frequent basis !!!

:p
More like won't LET me tinker with it! :mad:
 
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