Gforce Fx
<div class="IPBDescription">good for HL2?</div> my cousin got it today, it looks pretty good for $148, and im considering buying it if it will support HL2, can some people help me to tell if it will support it? (theres another name on it that starts with a N i forgot tho <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> )
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Pentium 4 CPU 1500Mhz
1.49 GHz
256 MB of RAM
err dunno how to get the rest so yea...
I wish you'd said this earlier, i've already got a gig of DDR RAM
and an XP 2600+ reserved for me. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Depends on what one you get....
P4 2.4ghz, 800 mhz buss, 512 kb cache
512 DDR RAM, real good ones, thinking of getting 1gb in ram
30-40 gb, fast hdds
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<a href='http://www.tyan.com/products/html/g9600pro.html' target='_blank'>Tyan 9600 Pro</a> sells for 160 on newegg
Thats a motherboard son not a graphics card
and an XP 2600+ reserved for me. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Good to have regardless <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Thats a motherboard son not a graphics card <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Read spinviper's post before yours.
Can you recommend a good graphics card for around £100 (about $130)?
The one i've got my eye on is a "Leadtek ViVo GeForce FX5600 256MB DDR 8xAGP"
I have no idea about how to tell if a graphics card is good other than by it's mb, this one is 256 so I guess that's pretty good <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I have an athalon 1800XP (~1500mhz) and 384mb of RAM. Will that do? Don't know my motherboard, can post it later. I DO know that it's an SiS something, i.e, very obscure manufacturer <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
YES I realise HL2 is not supposed to be too demanding, but I want to be able to play it how it looks in the demos <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Good new for me... <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
I need to buy a new card <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'><!--endemo-->
where do u get RAM??? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> and how much will it go for (im only looking to spend $300 in all)
where do u get RAM??? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> and how much will it go for (im only looking to spend $300 in all) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
RAM is easy to get hold of, any shop that sells PCs and/or PC parts should have plenty of RAM.
It isn't too expensive either; I only payed ?30 for 256mb RAM (i suppose that's about $50 which sounds a lot more <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> )
The only problem for me was that apparently there are 2 types. Luckily, one type is pretty old, and the guy in the shop said it was pretty unlikely I had that type.
It is also the only component I can fit myself <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Oh wait I can put in CD/floppy drives too, don't I have such a huge technical knowledge <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
*Edit*
And im not completely sure because I've not had much experience around Dual Channel setups on motherboards, but i think most require you to have two sticks of the same amount of ram.
u heard the man, more posts about ur system and if HL2 will run on it!
Were you not paying attention the several hundred times Valve publically stated the Hl2 bottom specs will be around 700mhz w/ TNT2?? YES, YOU CAN RUN HL2, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
gah...
And if any of you **** w/ a geforce 4 asks if you can run doom 3... why i outta...
Where is that mofo lately, anyways? I miss his mass pwnage <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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