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Game Forum / Action Games / Half Life / January 2005Best Spec for HalfLife 2
Gents, I'm about to upgrade. I'm looking at a bare bone solution (athlon 64 3000) from these guys - http://www.autdirect.co.uk/ I need to add to their spec at least a video card and a hard drive. As an option, I could upgrade the on board sound to a sound card. So, guys, what are you recommendations for awesome upgrades to get the best out of Halflife2 (and to be honest, will also be good for most other games...) Cheers, Mike ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Do you have problems with formatting your Word documents? Try HealthChecK. Full software on 25 day free trial and the chance to win your own free copy. http://www.kutchka.com/products/producthealthcheck.asp Geeze, you poor saps really get drilled on prices don't ya.... :) On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:28:32 +0000 (UTC), mike.sd@btinternt.com (Mike Sextons) wrote: >Gents, > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >Full software on 25 day free trial and the chance to win your own free copy. >http://www.kutchka.com/products/producthealthcheck.asp "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, cigarette in one hand, favorite beverage in the other, between the legs of a hot lady, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out,and screaming WOO HOO - What a Ride!" I didn't compose this but I love it!!! Cannon Fodder <gonfishn@airmail.net> typed as if devouring a plate of spoo: > Geeze, you poor saps really get drilled on prices don't ya.... :) We seem to pay pound for dollar plus tax on everything, especially computer gear. (Sadly, ordering from the US or Canada would be just as costly thanks to shipping.)  Signature-- There is no spoon. EvilBill - http://evilbill.50megs.com/index.html My Quake2 FTP site: ftp://65.30.181.223/quake2/EvilBill/ Jack of Hearts of the Eeeevil Trek Cabal (TINC) It's the "Plus tax" that gets ya.. Not just on you but the warehouser and the retail person.... It's about double the price... 'Course ya'll probably make a lot more than all of us poor minimum wage suckers that the media sez we earn after all of the outsourcing of jobs to your former Colony of India... ") On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:27:01 -0000, "EvilDoer" <quake2lives@gmail.com> wrote: >Cannon Fodder <gonfishn@airmail.net> typed as if devouring a plate of >spoo: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >(Sadly, ordering from the US or Canada would be just as costly thanks to >shipping.) "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, cigarette in one hand, favorite beverage in the other, between the legs of a hot lady, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out,and screaming WOO HOO - What a Ride!" I didn't compose this but I love it!!! Cannon Fodder <gonfishn@airmail.net> typed as if devouring a plate of spoo: > It's the "Plus tax" that gets ya.. Not just on you but the warehouser > and the retail person.... It's about double the price... 'Course ya'll > probably make a lot more than all of us poor minimum wage suckers that > the media sez we earn after all of the outsourcing of jobs to your > former Colony of India... ") Sadly, I can't even get a job, so I'm earning bugger-all. LOL Signature-- There is no spoon. EvilBill - http://evilbill.50megs.com/index.html My Quake2 FTP site: ftp://65.30.181.223/quake2/EvilBill/ Jack of Hearts of the Eeeevil Trek Cabal (TINC) > Cannon Fodder <gonfishn@airmail.net> typed as if devouring a plate of > spoo: [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > -- LOL > It's the "Plus tax" that gets ya.. Not just on you but the warehouser > and the retail person.... It's about double the price... 'Course ya'll > probably make a lot more than all of us poor minimum wage suckers that > the media sez we earn after all of the outsourcing of jobs to your > former Colony of India... ") No, plenty of British jobs have gone to India as well. British company call centres must be springing up all over the place there. > It's the "Plus tax" that gets ya.. Not just on you but the warehouser > and the retail person.... It's about double the price... 'Course ya'll > probably make a lot more than all of us poor minimum wage suckers that > the media sez we earn after all of the outsourcing of jobs to your > former Colony of India... ") Yes you lot are really poor. That's why you complain about fuel prices while all owning 5 litre cars. (Fuel prices that are a third of the fuel price here). >> It's the "Plus tax" that gets ya.. Not just on you but the warehouser >> and the retail person.... It's about double the price... 'Course [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > prices while all owning 5 litre cars. (Fuel prices that are a third > of the fuel price here). 4.0 liter here. 6 cylinder, inline. 4 spd automatic with OD, and 4 x 4 to boot :) Mileage? 13 city, 28 hwy. Comfort, speed, performance, handling, parking....excellent. It's a Jeep, of course! :o)) McG. HeHe... 5.6 liter here... I don't complain about the price of gas, I revel in it... The government charges a fair tax that maintains our highways, the refineries earn a fair profit as do the retailers... Now, why is your gas, petrol or whatever ya wanna call it so expensive???? Who is gouging you??? :) >> Yes you lot are really poor. That's why you complain about fuel >> prices while all owning 5 litre cars. (Fuel prices that are a third >> of the fuel price here). "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, cigarette in one hand, favorite beverage in the other, between the legs of a hot lady, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out,and screaming WOO HOO - What a Ride!" I didn't compose this but I love it!!! > HeHe... 5.6 liter here... I don't complain about the price of gas, I > revel in it... The government charges a fair tax that maintains our > highways, the refineries earn a fair profit as do the retailers... > Now, why is your gas, petrol or whatever ya wanna call it so > expensive???? Who is gouging you??? :) ... ours has to maintain the potholes and the speed camera's Signature"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King, Jr. >HeHe... 5.6 liter here... I don't complain about the price of gas, I >revel in it... The government charges a fair tax that maintains our >highways, the refineries earn a fair profit as do the retailers... >Now, why is your gas, petrol or whatever ya wanna call it so >expensive???? Who is gouging you??? :) The government, we don't pay a lot for petrol, only over 400% tax approx current price: petrol: 15p fuel duty: 55p VAT tax on the tax at 17.5%: 13p total price: 83p per Litre (£3.13UKP - $5.91 USD per gallon) -- ButIstillneedtoknowwhat'sinthere!Thekeytoanysecurity systemishowit'sdesigned!Thatdependsonwhyitwasdesigned! Ihavetoknowwhatwhoeverdesigneditwastryingtoprotect! (Blakes 7, City on the Edge of the World - Vila in typical panic mode) Heh! In Ireland, fuel duty is calculated to cover the health costs of road accidents to the government, and the cost of subsidising the public transport system. And then Road Tax and car reg. tax covers the costs of the roads/potholes. Of course, none of this worries me too much, I'm just annoyed at the price of bicycle components. Civilian_Target > Gents, > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Mike Ignoring the yanks winding us up about prices, there are several options depending on how much you want to spend. In terms of hard drive, a decent SATA drive is nice, a newer 16mb cache model is nicer, such as the maxtor +10 or the seagate 7200.8. Video card - it depends on the kind of detail you want. The 6600GT will play it well for about 140 quid, the 6800GT will play it with eveything turned as high as it will go and barely break a sweat - much more future proof. I wouldnt spend any less than that as its not going to last long at all. The sound isnt too much of an issue and an easy upgrade in future. The biggest performance hit to HL2 is memory, get as much as you can. 256 is a complete no no, 512 is bearable, 1gb is ideal and 2gb is nice. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Do you have problems with formatting your Word documents? > Try HealthChecK. > Full software on 25 day free trial and the chance to win your own free > copy. > http://www.kutchka.com/products/producthealthcheck.asp I played it on an ATI 9800XT with everything on max and it played fine. I haven't got framerates to compare, but I was never aware of any slowdown. My other bits are: AMD64 3400 Soundblaster Live! Value + 4.1 Cambridge Soundworks (about 5 years old!) 1gb RAM 40gb ATA HDD. Seagate, forget which model. I suspect the HDD slowed loading times a bit, but I'd been forewarned that they were significant so I was expecting a pause. I actually appreciated them because it gave me a chance to stretch my knuckles and have a quick drink (from a glass on the desk, not go downstairs and make a coffee). |
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