Lol.. I really wonder where people buy their parts somedays... I spent $600-800 canadian on my box and got a Radeon 9500, AMD Athalon xp 2200+, Audigy GamerX, Burner, DVD player, and Windows XP pro oh, and 512 megs of ram.. =D
Then again I've seen Radeons (no number, the original) going for the same price as 9800 pros ad my local EB... Oh ya.. and I bought my box from a Computer store owned by the company my dad use to be on the board of directors for... That might have something to do with it...
And I have played NS on dinosaurs.. A 700mhz Celeron, no gfx card or sound card and a 166mhz Celeron, no gfx card, no sound. The 166mhz almost exploded... But it worked.. at 5-10 fps. I also have a 8-25Mhz (one of the old ones with the turbo button.. aka Overclocking switch) computer that I keep around for pacman, snakes and some other fun really basic games.. I might be able to get one of the skulks teeth on that thing without it crashing..
I'd get a radeon 9500 pro if I could find somewhere that supplies them in the UK for a reasonable price (like around £100). Anyone know anywhere I can find this, or somewhere I can get a GeForce 4 Ti 4800+ 128MB fairly cheap?
OTOH, the GeF 4800 performs better than the R9500 Pro in practically every test I've seen, and I don't need the Dx9 support, so I'm going for the Nvidia card (the drivers tend to be better too).
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I spent $600-800 canadian on my box and got a Radeon 9500, AMD Athalon xp 2200+, Audigy GamerX, Burner, DVD player, and Windows XP pro
oh, and 512 megs of ram.. =D
Then again I've seen Radeons (no number, the original) going for the same price as 9800 pros ad my local EB...
Oh ya.. and I bought my box from a Computer store owned by the company my dad use to be on the board of directors for... That might have something to do with it...
And I have played NS on dinosaurs.. A 700mhz Celeron, no gfx card or sound card and a 166mhz Celeron, no gfx card, no sound. The 166mhz almost exploded... But it worked.. at 5-10 fps. I also have a 8-25Mhz (one of the old ones with the turbo button.. aka Overclocking switch) computer that I keep around for pacman, snakes and some other fun really basic games.. I might be able to get one of the skulks teeth on that thing without it crashing..
OTOH, the GeF 4800 performs better than the R9500 Pro in practically every test I've seen, and I don't need the Dx9 support, so I'm going for the Nvidia card (the drivers tend to be better too).