Terminat.
12-20-04, 02:11 PM
A few months back, I built a budget gaming pc (mainly for lan tournaments, since the old Dell Dimension with a dodgy network card and GeForce4 MX440 just couldn't handle it.)
I decided to build the pc out of components that, one year ago, would have been considered state-of-the-art:
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton (back when 512k cache was all the range)
512MB PC3200 DDR Memory
8x AGP PC-Chips Motherboard, supporting the (back then) ultra-fast ATA133 standard
Maxtor 80GB 7200rpm ATA133 Disk Drive (a year ago, ATA133 was considered very speedy)
Sapphire Radeon 9600SE 128MB (Okay, I know this 64-bit card wouldn't have ever been considered state-of-the-art, but it gives near-par performance to a GeForce4 Ti, which at one time was top-of-the-range. Plus DX9 was kind of a luxury last year.)
Samsung 8x DVD-RW/R (Single Layer) - Although not amazing now, compared to the dual-layer writers of today, a year ago this drive would have cost hundreds of pounds - I got it for only £40 from www.ebuyer.co.uk
Windows XP Home with SP2
I also bought a budget case and psu optimised for quietness, again from www.ebuyer.co.uk - the pc is now silent.
Even today, this pc happily runs C&C Generals, UT2004, Far Cry, Rome: Total War and others - all at 1152*1024 at max. settings (with the exception of Far Cry and Rome: Total War, which are run at high settings.)
I decided to build the pc out of components that, one year ago, would have been considered state-of-the-art:
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton (back when 512k cache was all the range)
512MB PC3200 DDR Memory
8x AGP PC-Chips Motherboard, supporting the (back then) ultra-fast ATA133 standard
Maxtor 80GB 7200rpm ATA133 Disk Drive (a year ago, ATA133 was considered very speedy)
Sapphire Radeon 9600SE 128MB (Okay, I know this 64-bit card wouldn't have ever been considered state-of-the-art, but it gives near-par performance to a GeForce4 Ti, which at one time was top-of-the-range. Plus DX9 was kind of a luxury last year.)
Samsung 8x DVD-RW/R (Single Layer) - Although not amazing now, compared to the dual-layer writers of today, a year ago this drive would have cost hundreds of pounds - I got it for only £40 from www.ebuyer.co.uk
Windows XP Home with SP2
I also bought a budget case and psu optimised for quietness, again from www.ebuyer.co.uk - the pc is now silent.
Even today, this pc happily runs C&C Generals, UT2004, Far Cry, Rome: Total War and others - all at 1152*1024 at max. settings (with the exception of Far Cry and Rome: Total War, which are run at high settings.)