i'm sure they'll start working on hl2 right after they dinish tf2... in other words never. Although i would love to see ns on the ut2k3 engine, it's fine where it is now.
talesin i really doubt that machine could beat a top of the line alienware system... unless your boy spent $1900 of that $2900 getting it gold plated
for $2800 you'd be running a p4 3.06ghz, 1gb memory, 2 baracuda drives, sb 6.1, and a radeon 9700pro. But for the price you got your system is great.
TalesinOur own little well of hateJoin Date: 2002-11-08Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
Mongo, I didn't say it beat the top of the line. I said it beat the 'Hive-Mind' option. Though I STILL could put together a machine to stomp all over the top of the line Alienware for around (or under) half the price. $1400? WHOO! That's kid-in-a-candy-store time. I could end up tossing in striped RAID, a dedicated pagefile drive, full on 9700 Pro... or go into pennysave mode and go for a SMP setup to REALLY kick its PCBs. This particular one, the new owner had a set price-point. $600. So I fit it into that budget. I honestly didn't expect it to perform as well as it did, but I'm pleased that it has. Now to tweak everything for *absolute* best performance.
Trust me when I say that Alienware is FAR overpriced for the product they deliver. Then again, when I'm putting a machine together, all I usually get out of it is the old spare parts in payment. Which I proceed to tweak up and trick out for addition to my little renderfarm. If I insisted that they buy me a duplicate machine, I /might/ come up on the Alienware cost range. But I'd prolly still be around one or two hundred bucks cheaper. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
VPR Matrix (from best buy) makes a top of the line system with 3.06 PIV, 512 RAM, some sort of geforce 128mb, two 100 gig HD's in raid, DVD burner, and DVD-ROM for $1899.
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<!--QuoteBegin--Lightning Blue+Mar 3 2003, 06:09 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Lightning Blue @ Mar 3 2003, 06:09 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> VPR Matrix (from best buy) makes a top of the line system with 3.06 PIV, 512 RAM, some sort of geforce 128mb, two 100 gig HD's in raid, DVD burner, and DVD-ROM for $1899.
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talesin i really doubt that machine could beat a top of the line alienware system... unless your boy spent $1900 of that $2900 getting it gold plated
for $2800 you'd be running a p4 3.06ghz, 1gb memory, 2 baracuda drives, sb 6.1, and a radeon 9700pro. But for the price you got your system is great.
Trust me when I say that Alienware is FAR overpriced for the product they deliver. Then again, when I'm putting a machine together, all I usually get out of it is the old spare parts in payment. Which I proceed to tweak up and trick out for addition to my little renderfarm. If I insisted that they buy me a duplicate machine, I /might/ come up on the Alienware cost range. But I'd prolly still be around one or two hundred bucks cheaper. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
We bought one at the office and now I want one <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
We bought one at the office and now I want one <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
<---- Best Buy guy
And oh yes... the discounts on computers and everything else for that matter is fantastic