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Game Forum / Action Games / Half Life / May 2004Who has the Lamest setup?
Heres a thing.. We all go on about how good our rig is.. but who here can lay claim to the worst? I'll post my specs when i get them.. Blue > Heres a thing.. > We all go on about how good our rig is.. but who here can lay claim to the > worst? > I'll post my specs when i get them.. > > Blue AMD Athlon 1800, GeForce2 MX400, 512MB PC2100, generic built-in sound. State of the art back in it's day... last century. JazzMan  Signature********************************************************** Please reply to jsavage"at"airmail.net. Curse those darned bulk e-mailers! ********************************************************** "Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry ********************************************************** Right, What I have is.. 4.3Gig HD Cyrix M II Processor 32Mb RAM VooDoo 3 APG Windows ME Soundblaster...32 I think. If I told you that I get lag while playing Half Life, you'll know what I mean. Blue My fiend still has a Laser-128 , an Apple 2 e clone from 1980-something. It has a blazing 3.5 mhz 128k of ram, 320 X 200 graphics in 4 bit color depth. No hard drive, 5 1/4 floppy, connected to a 9 inch tv. He still has some progs for it on cassette. My newest project is to build him an adapter so he can port his old Apple games from cassette to CD, and play them with an emulator on his 486 PC. Anybody out there have something worse ? <BCA> Fresh Meat > Right, What I have is.. > 4.3Gig HD [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Blue > My fiend still has a Laser-128 , an Apple 2 e clone from > 1980-something. It has a blazing 3.5 mhz 128k of ram, 320 X 200 [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Anybody out there have something worse ? If you're going to go back to the vintage home computer era (1978-83), I have several old Ataris and Commodores laying around. I love them to death, so I'll never part with them. :) Mike Mike Kohary proclaimed... > If you're going to go back to the vintage home computer era (1978-83), I > have several old Ataris and Commodores laying around. I love them to death, > so I'll never part with them. :) > > Mike Pah, ignore the spectrum will ya? Signaturewww.stri.tk "If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate." >My fiend still has a Laser-128 , an Apple 2 e clone from 1980-something. It >has a blazing 3.5 mhz 128k of ram, 320 X 200 graphics in 4 bit color depth. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >Anybody out there have something worse ? I have an abacus, and I've been taking the little wooden beads off of it and using them for buttons on an old TI calculator I got in 1980. >My fiend still has a Laser-128 , an Apple 2 e clone from 1980-something. >Anybody out there have something worse ? One of the toys in my den is an original Apple ][e, with 64K of RAM and twin 143K floppy drives. No, I don't play Half-Life on it. On the plus side, though, it makes a great terminal for my VAX 8250 running BSD 4.3. Too bad it's summer, and I can't afford to turn that beast on. The AC just can't keep up. -- * Dan Sorenson DoD #1066 a.shole #35 BOTY 1997 viking@svtv.com * * Vikings? There ain't no vikings here. Just us honest farmers. * * The town was burning, the villagers were dead. They didn't need * * those sheep anyway. That's our story and we're sticking to it. * > One of the toys in my den is an original Apple ][e, with > 64K of RAM and twin 143K floppy drives. No, I don't play Half-Life > on it. Hey I got one of those! :) The wireframe flight simulator is AWESOME! > Right, What I have is.. > 4.3Gig HD [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > If I told you that I get lag while playing Half Life, you'll know what I mean. If you can find SIMM modules these days, get some more RAM; I think it will sort your problem out. 32MB never was good enough for playing Half-Life. Other than that, it looks okay to me. A Voodoo3 can handle HL no bother at all (mine did). -- Paul >> Right, What I have is.. >> 4.3Gig HD [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > -- > Paul I have a bag full of both EDO and SDRam simms here. McG. > Right, What I have is.. > 4.3Gig HD [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Blue Right, your rig can't keep up with the phone line? :o\ My worst one: P-233, 64 megs EDO 70ns, Built in sound and video. 480 meg hd. But it DOES have an optical mouse! Middle one: P3-800, 768 megs SDRam, Radeon 7000-64 meg, built in sound, 540 meg hd, optical mouse. Best one: P4-2.66, 1 gig PC3200, Radeon 9800-128, TB Santa Cruz, 160g and 60g hd's These are all Daddybuilt Systems ;) McG. >TB Santa Cruz, 160g Nice sound card. Civilian_Target >> TB Santa Cruz, 160g > > Nice sound card. > > Civilian_Target Yep, it is :) I can do things with it that I can not with the SB Live Value. Lotta bang for the buck :) McG. >>> TB Santa Cruz, 160g >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >Value. Lotta bang for the buck :) >McG. When I built my last system, I bought an SB Audigy board for it but it ended up crashing the system so bad that I had to reinstall WinXP. Took it back, returned it for the Santa Cruz and have been VERY happy with it. Sounds great. :-) Erik Hehe, Nope. This is when playing SP. Mp is suprisingly bearable. Blue "McGrandpa" <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> > ... your rig can't keep up with the phone line? :o\ LOL Ouch! > AMD Athlon 1800, GeForce2 MX400, 512MB PC2100, generic > built-in sound. State of the art back in it's day... > last century. Call that lame? Mine is lamer than that! (Though I can't beat HLBlueShift and Admiral Hooha). Athlon 1200, 512MB PC133 RAM (is that called something else now? I haven't kept up), Diamond MX300 A3D sound card (remember those?), and... er... a Radeon 9600 Pro. Damn, I let myself down at the end there. -- Paul >Athlon 1200, 512MB PC133 RAM (is that called something else now? I haven't kept >up), Diamond MX300 A3D sound card (remember those?), and... er... a Radeon 9600 >Pro. Damn, I let myself down at the end there. I have an A3D soundcard too, mines a Videologic Sonicfury, and the sound quality off it is pretty unrivalled by any other non-professional card I've heard, including those Audigy2's. As for lame setups, I'm running a p200 with 64mb RAM, a 3.2gb HD and a 1 meg Trident graphics card. It's on server duty ATM but I might try a game of HL on it soon, if I can find some drivers for the GFX card. Civilian_Target > I have an A3D soundcard too, mines a Videologic Sonicfury, and the > sound quality off it is pretty unrivalled by any other > non-professional card I've heard, including those Audigy2's. I love my A3D card, particularly when a program actually uses A3D (a rarity now). It sounds very nice, perfectly good enough for my needs (not being a musician) and AFAIR has never caused any kind of conflict with the games I play, unlike various SB card problems I've heard about. I see no reason to change my card, but no doubt some future version of DirectX will break it :( -- Paul >> I have an A3D soundcard too, mines a Videologic Sonicfury, and the >> sound quality off it is pretty unrivalled by any other [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >unlike various SB card problems I've heard about. I see no reason to change my >card, but no doubt some future version of DirectX will break it :( Same as. That said, the Ensoniq AudioPCI in the familys PC is now seven years old and still going strong. If you have no desire for anything more than decent stereo there's no reason to replace it. Civilian_Target I've an AMD1900 w/512 and a ti-4200 it runs far cry fine, it only slowed once or twice set on high. > > Heres a thing.. > > We all go on about how good our rig is.. but who here can lay claim to the [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > JazzMan >I've an AMD1900 w/512 and a ti-4200 it runs far cry fine, it only slowed >once or twice set on high. Really? Sometimes the a.s falls out of my idenically specced PC unless it's set to low or medium-low at 1024x768 in farcry Aw man, that MX400 gotta GO! Other than that, it isn't so bad a rig! McG. >> Heres a thing.. >> We all go on about how good our rig is.. but who here can lay claim [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry > ********************************************************** > Heres a thing.. > We all go on about how good our rig is.. but who here can lay claim to the > worst? FIC VA-503+ mobo with VIA MVP3 chipset AMD K6-2 300 MHz CPU 16MB Voodoo Banshee video card 128MBs PC100 SDRAM 3GB and 1.6GB HDs 4X CD-ROM drive Windows 98 What do I win? > > Heres a thing.. > > We all go on about how good our rig is.. but who here can lay claim to the [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > What do I win? Nowt - you cheated by upgrading to Win98 (I hope thats not the second edition) :-) > FIC VA-503+ mobo with VIA MVP3 chipset > AMD K6-2 300 MHz CPU [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > What do I win? Nothing. SDRAM with that processor? Pull the other one! /me checks Ohhh, it's one of them new-fangled motherboards with SIMMs *and* DIMMs. Okay, give him the prize. (Heck, those were the days: when one motherboard supported all brands of CPU) -- Paul > Ohhh, it's one of them new-fangled motherboards with SIMMs *and* DIMMs. > > (Heck, those were the days: when one motherboard supported all brands of CPU) Yes, it's quite versatile. It does everything quite poorly. > Okay, give him the prize. <rubs hands> Me hopes it's one of those fancy new TNT cards I keep hearing about. HLBlueShift proclaimed... > Heres a thing.. > We all go on about how good our rig is.. but who here can lay claim to the > worst? > I'll post my specs when i get them.. I think I'm safe: System Info: OS (Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 1 (5.1 - 2600) Uptime: 2d 22h 30m 11s Record: 1w 2d 12h 33m 50s) mIRC (Version: 6.12 Uptime: 16h 7m 16s Record: 5d 20h 55m 13s) MEM ([||||------] Usage: 662/1536mb (43.10%)) CPU (1-AMD , 2166MHz, 256KB (11% Load)) Grafx (NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 1280x1024 32bit 85Hz) HD (C:\ (16.12GB Free, 31.49GB Total), D:\ (39.07GB Free, 48.51GB Total), E:\ (0.13GB Free, 0.55GB Total), F:\ (1.35GB Free, 2.93GB Total), G:\ (1.50GB Free, 3.91GB Total)) Network (#1 (Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC - Packet Scheduler Miniport (100Mb/s) 3340.27MB In, 2211.88MB Out)) DCC (Sent: 1 Files - Received: 1 Files - Failed: 0 Sends 14 Gets) Bandwidth (Current: D/L: 0B/s U/L: 0B/s Records: D/L: 108.99KB/s from XDCCz195 U/L: 16.09KB/s to HuGoAGoGo) Date/Time (Saturday 05/22/2004 - 09:10:53/+0000 GMT) Signaturewww.stri.tk "If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate." > HLBlueShift proclaimed... > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > I think I'm safe: > Date/Time (Saturday 05/22/2004 - 09:10:53/+0000 GMT) Yeah it would have been touch and go if it was actually 09:30:53...... Close call! Craig.... > Heres a thing.. > We all go on about how good our rig is.. but who here can lay claim > to the worst? > I'll post my specs when i get them.. My main rig is great, but up until June of last year I was making do with a PII/400 with 256MB and a 40GB hard disk. It had a GeForce II in it, but I'm sure a lot of the potential of that card was quite wasted when paired with that processor. ;) At least it had an AGP slot (which was a brand spanking new development when I first bought the machine). This is now the "kid's computer". Mike > > Heres a thing.. > > We all go on about how good our rig is.. but who here can lay claim [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Mike My Cheapskate a.s brother uses a: AMD K6 350 64Meg RAM 6.4Gig HD 12Meg Voodoo 2 Win 98SE .....and it crashes like a bastard... I however am using A64 3400+ 1gig RAM 160 Gig HD ATI Radeon 9800XT Win XP Home ....and it doesn't crash like a bastard... Craig.... > Heres a thing.. > We all go on about how good our rig is.. but who here can lay claim > to the worst? > I'll post my specs when i get them.. Hehe, still got the old 8088 thing with a giant 20 Mb HD and a 5 1/4 floppy and astonishing 1 Mb RAM Runs WP 5.1 rather efficiently Ohm yep and an Herculus Monochrome graphics card to go with it A Jumbo if anyone cares :-) Cost me a about 11k Dkr back then, and it wasn't even a state of the art - Peter Hi I got an PIC16f84A, on 4Mhz, with an LM16A21 2*16LCD screen and a keypad and serial interface... Greetz Jan " but who here can lay claim to the worst? " My brother still has this for Half-Life... - Micro-Star International MS-5182 motherboard - AMD K6-2/550 AGR processor - 2x 128MB PC100 generic SDRAM - Seagate ST313030A 13GB 5400rpm hard drive - Inno3D GeForce4 MX440SE 64MB PCI graphics card - Windows 98SE ...while I have this: - EliteGroup (ECS) K7S5A Pro motherboard w/ 030811 BIOS - AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (266 FSB) processor - 2 x Kingston 512MB PC2100 KVR266X64C2/512 DDR-RAM - Western Digital Caviar 80GB 7200rpm 8MB cache hard drive - Inno3D GeForce4 Ti4200 64MB AGP4x graphics card - Gamesurround L-8738-6C sound card - Windows XP Professional SP1 w/ <snip the pish> Why's that noted? I feel you take computing too seriously > ...while I have this: > > - EliteGroup (ECS) K7S5A Pro motherboard w/ 030811 BIOS > Heres a thing.. > We all go on about how good our rig is.. but who here can lay claim to the > worst? > I'll post my specs when i get them.. amd xp 2100 o'c to 2400 512mb ddr 333mhz crucial geforce 3 ti 500 128 (upgrading soon) 80gb erm..whatever the fastest HDD was at the time (western digital). Upgrading ram and gfx soon, dont care bout cpu, it fast enough. Lief proclaimed... > amd xp 2100 o'c to 2400 > 512mb ddr 333mhz crucial > geforce 3 ti 500 128 (upgrading soon) > 80gb erm..whatever the fastest HDD was at the time (western digital). > > Upgrading ram and gfx soon, dont care bout cpu, it fast enough. Ignorant southern bastard :) Signaturewww.stri.tk "If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate." How do you get a Vortex Mx300 to run in Windows XP, where did you get the drivers ? I have it installe din a 98 system and it f.cks ALL OVER my Sound blaster live in Quality, MP3's are Brilliant you can just hear the difference and games not as much :0 If you can help please do. >Lief proclaimed... > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Ignorant southern bastard :) > How do you get a Vortex Mx300 to run in Windows XP, where did you get > the drivers ? Aw man! An MX300 doesn't run in WinXP? Yet another impediment to me upgrading :( Why did you ask Strider? I think Civilian_Target and I were the only ones who mentioned Aureal sound cards. I'm running Win98SE, so I can't help you. -- Paul > > How do you get a Vortex Mx300 to run in Windows XP, where did you get > > the drivers ? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Why did you ask Strider? I think Civilian_Target and I were the only ones who > mentioned Aureal sound cards. I'm running Win98SE, so I can't help you. See: http://quantex.tech.nu for help on Aureal cards in Windows XP > See: > http://quantex.tech.nu for help on Aureal cards in Windows XP Many thanks :) -- Paul > Heres a thing.. > We all go on about how good our rig is.. but who here can lay claim to the > worst? > I'll post my specs when i get them.. > > Blue I have some punchcards, two dimms (64megs total) and no cpu. > Heres a thing.. > We all go on about how good our rig is.. but who here can lay claim to the > worst? > I'll post my specs when i get them.. > > Blue I'll have to post my brothers PC specs. P3-550 in ABit BX motherboard, 512 SD-RAM, 20GB HDD, SB16 sound, GF2-MX video card. Internet connection of 56K modem connecting at 48Kbps. (bastard doubles my connection speed) Can play Counter-Strike only. But when he gets a few drinks in him he's killer. :-) I think it slows his timing down to match his PC in a perfectly Zen like match. SignatureJethro[AGHL] aka Phat_Pinger Reply Email: jeff (at) tibben (dot) ca > > Heres a thing.. > > We all go on about how good our rig is.. but who here can lay claim to the [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > I think it slows his timing down to match his PC in a perfectly Zen like > match. Just built my sister's first PC for her out of bits. She's playing Half-life, Aliens V Predator 1, UT, etc and she loves it. Celeron 433 KT7A Mobo (good mobo for its day) 512 SDRAM 10GB HD 3DFX Voodoo2 No internet yet. Quality of games over PSX blow her away and she's already looking at buying a new rig to play the latest and greatest and wants a group of us to meet at mine for a LAN party - 3 months ago she didnt know what one was :-) > Celeron 433 > KT7A Mobo (good mobo for its day) Are you sure? My *current* motherboard is an Abit KT7A, and it's for AMD processors down to 600MHz. -- Paul > > Celeron 433 > > KT7A Mobo (good mobo for its day) [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > -- > Paul Not now I'm not.... bugger. I'll have to check or it'll drive ME mad! >>> Heres a thing.. >>> We all go on about how good our rig is.. but who here can lay claim [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > us to meet at mine for a LAN party - 3 months ago she didnt know what > one was :-) Hah! Turned to Geekdom by her own brudder! Hey, whatamilaughing at? I did that too! But to my sister, my kids....oh the shame of it all ;o) McG. > Hah! Turned to Geekdom by her own brudder! Hey, whatamilaughing at? I > did that too! But to my sister, my kids....oh the shame of it all ;o) I got Dr. C hooked on HL... by constantly playing it when he comes round and ignoring him. Now I spend my time trying to avoid his wife because of it;) -- David davidfirewater(a)hotmail.com "Hey, hey, 16K, what does that get you today? You need more than that for a letter, old school rampaks are much better." > I got Dr. C hooked on HL... > by constantly playing it when he comes round and ignoring him. > Now I spend my time trying to avoid his wife because of it;) > -- > David > davidfirewater(a)hotmail.com she wants your blood amigo........... SignatureDr C [AGHL] |
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