Clubfoot Posted January 5, 2002 Share Posted January 5, 2002 I'm still on a PIII 500 which I don't plan on trading up from anytime in the near future. I've come to realize that processor upgrades don't always provide the jaw-dropping performance increases that people think they will, however. Now my jaw did drop when I stuck in that new Geforce3 Ti500 and 768 meg of ram. :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWB Posted January 5, 2002 Share Posted January 5, 2002 I will be upgrading soon, but not necessarily for CMBB. The system will be: Abit KG7 RAID Mobo Athalon XP 1500 or Seriously OCed Athalon 1ghz (200mhz FSB model, rumor has they can do 1.4ghz without too much sweat.) 512mb PC2100 DDRam 2x 30gb HDD running in a striping RAID0 SB Live 5.1 GeForce2 Pro w/ 64mb DDR DVD, CD-RW, etc., etc. Mainly for OFP and IL2, but it will do real nice for CMBB. WWB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wesreidau Posted January 6, 2002 Share Posted January 6, 2002 Finally got around to having 2 PC`s at last! Yep, went out and bought a new system for Wolfenstein and CMBB! AMD 1900+, 512mb, 80Gb IBM Raid-0, 19" Monitor, SB Audigy, the works....I`m ready! So WHERE is the game? C`mon BTS, where is it? No, I mean, i`m serious here, where...oh bugger it, back to CMBO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diceman Posted January 6, 2002 Share Posted January 6, 2002 I'll only upgade if CMBB absolutely wont run on my K6III 450 MH with NVIDIA Riva TNT2 32MB video card. No sense in buying a better card, the motherboard already bottlenecks the one I have now. It'll have to be a whole new machine, and it'll have to wait. I've got college to pay for, plus I need to come up with a downpayment on a house. Real life can be a pain sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted January 6, 2002 Share Posted January 6, 2002 Wacky: All you have to do is request from Alienware that they put in a different version of Windows. I did this exact thing and they installed Win98-SE for me (runs fast and stable, no compatibility problems), didn't want that ME junk. XP soaks up more system resources, and for what gain? I would tell them to install Win98SE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windopaene Posted January 7, 2002 Share Posted January 7, 2002 Well I've got one of those "pre-built" HP comps. Windows ME, (no problems here for me), 850 MHz, lots 'O disk, 90 megs I think of memory. Have had no problems with CMBO. I DO have the "non-upgradeable" video thing, although I think I hae 11 MB of memory. Can't remember exactly. I just hope that CMBB will run on it. Hell even if it doesn't run perfectly smoothly, it will work for me! But the real question is, if you've got this built-in video thingamajig, can you still slap in a more appropriate video card? Or will the built-in stuff refuse to "give it up" so to speak? That would of course require finding a slot for the thing, which given the cramped inside of this box will be a bit of a challenge... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dittohead Posted January 7, 2002 Share Posted January 7, 2002 I think I'll slap another 640k into my TRS-80 and will be ready to go. :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ckoharik Posted January 7, 2002 Share Posted January 7, 2002 <blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Windopaene: Well I've got one of those "pre-built" HP comps...But the real question is, if you've got this built-in video thingamajig, can you still slap in a more appropriate video card? Or will the built-in stuff refuse to "give it up" so to speak? That would of course require finding a slot for the thing, which given the cramped inside of this box will be a bit of a challenge...<hr></blockquote> You may well be SOL on the vid card. While on vacation I was checking out my friend's HP box and there was a slot...just not accessible. :eek: As for myself, I think my system will continue to do nicely for now. (TBird 1.33/512MB PC2100/40GB/GeForce3/SB Live) Although, I have been eyeing building a dual proc system for my 3D stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Posted January 7, 2002 Share Posted January 7, 2002 I think I'll get myself this. I am sure CMBB will run fine on my current iMac with an 8MB card, but this looks much nicer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiggDogg Posted January 8, 2002 Share Posted January 8, 2002 Clubfoot & Everyone, Club, how much of an increase and/or benefit did you receive upon upgrading to a GeForce3 Ti500? What was the visible and tangible benefit? What had been your prior video card & your prior amount of RAM? Do you think that an upgrade to a GeFroce3 Ti200 would have given an almost similar benefit as the Ti500 gave to you on your relatively slow machine? Club & everyone, Presently, I have a P2-400, 512 RAM, TNT 16 meg. In about 5 or 6 weeks, I will purchase a new super whammy Athlon XP, GeForce3 Ti500, & the whole shooting match in order to play Medal of Honor &, of course, CMBB. My sweet wife shall inherit the old P2-400 which shall be networked to the new Athlon machine. However, one must bring the old P2-400 up a bit to be able to have decent LAN games and my local LAN to internet games. Question: what video card and/or what else should I do to cheaply ($100 to $200) upgrade the old P2-400 to give it more pep & zip? Remember, the P2-400 has 512 meg RAM already. Cheers, Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Wacky Posted January 8, 2002 Author Share Posted January 8, 2002 You might want to look at the next-to-latest generation of vid cards like the Voodoo5 (anti-aliasing looks great in CM) or the GeForce 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NecrosisLabs Posted January 9, 2002 Share Posted January 9, 2002 Ok, I'll jump in. A little background; I've been running a PII300 since 1998, and was resigned to not playing CMBB for a while. Then the money gods smiled upon me alowing me to build this: 1.53 Ghz AMD XP 512 MB PC2100 ECC DDR RAM Soyo Super Dragon A7V266A Mobo, w/ on-board 5.1 sound and RAID ATI Radeon 8500 2 Maxtor 7600 RPM 40GB drives running in RAID 0 And the usual goodies. I have been having great fun playing the battles in CMBO that before were not possible... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted January 9, 2002 Share Posted January 9, 2002 I hope CMBB has toggle switches to turn off some of their heftier goodies like they do with trees now. I may just have a creaky old mac G3 but this isn't the right economy to be spending two months rent to get a game to run faster. Funny how Bush's tax windfalls for the super-rich failed to revive the economy as promised. Who's surprised - let's see a show of hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwcanuck Posted January 10, 2002 Share Posted January 10, 2002 I was very unhappy with my Gigabyte socket 370 motherboard and Celeron 600 processor so I upgraded to an Asus ATX Motherboard and Athlon Thunderbird 1.1 G processor. My Geforce2 MX400 card works so nice with the upgraded computer. btw I use the 23.xx drivers for the NVidea card and they work great. CMBO runs so smooth now!! I also have 650mb of RAM so I'm ready for CMBB when it comes out hopefully for my birthday in April RW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJMello Posted January 10, 2002 Share Posted January 10, 2002 Running a PII 400 and will go with a PIII or PIV. Whatever I can afford now and probably max the RAM out. After this, next time will be a whole new machine which I am not looking foward to. Too used to this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt Colon Posted January 10, 2002 Share Posted January 10, 2002 Excuse my hysterical laughter But all this sounds like 'mens room' talk, like " I can get further up the wall than you" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWB Posted January 10, 2002 Share Posted January 10, 2002 <blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by CJMello: Running a PII 400 and will go with a PIII or PIV. Whatever I can afford now and probably max the RAM out. After this, next time will be a whole new machine which I am not looking foward to. Too used to this one.<hr></blockquote> Well, you are probably limited to slower Pentium 3s, your motherboard cannot handle much more. Pentium 4s will definitely translate into a new machine. WWB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Wacky Posted January 10, 2002 Author Share Posted January 10, 2002 <blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Sgt Colon: Excuse my hysterical laughter But all this sounds like 'mens room' talk, like " I can get further up the wall than you" <hr></blockquote> In the bathroom in elementary school I once watched a kid limbo under an arching stream of pee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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