Roar, huge pc upgrade for a friend, spent tons...

locutus12 · 11 Mar 2006 at 08:06

we went from:

Duron 1000mhz
GeForce 2 MX400 32mb
256pc133
crappy cooler (cpu running at 75oC for 5 years!!)

to:

Athlon 1300
Geforce 3Ti 200 128mb
512mb pc133
crappy but far better cooler

and as im sure you can guess we really pushed the boat out as far as expenses went...

£43.29p

DooM 3 anyone???

TechnoCorruption · 11 Mar 2006 at 10:16

More like Doom 1 or 2

locutus12 · 11 Mar 2006 at 10:17

you know, i may actually try doom 3 just for laughs

its basically an office pc with a few games from about 2001 / 2002 so it didnt need much

should do him for 3 to 6 months whilst he saves for his new one.

TechnoCorruption · 11 Mar 2006 at 10:25

It will certainly run Doom 3 even though it will have to be lowish settings, the extra system ram and graphics ram will defantly help out.

semi-pro waster · 11 Mar 2006 at 10:58

locutus12 said:
you know, i may actually try doom 3 just for laughs

I don't know if you remember but a while back in the graphic card forums there was a link to a guy who had got SLi'd Voodoo 2 cards running Doom3 so you ought to manage it

Did you buy a separate stick of 512mb Ram? If so why not run it with the original 256mb for 768mb?

locutus12 · 11 Mar 2006 at 11:07

nope, just got another 256mb, thats the max memory smodule size the board can handle...

trojan698 · 11 Mar 2006 at 19:03

glad its working ok

Beast of a machine btw

KizZ · 11 Mar 2006 at 19:16

Quake 2 or 3 should run OK

DaveBennett · 12 Mar 2006 at 00:09

I bet I could beat the original spec,im currently on a..

Pentium 3,497 Mhz
6 GB HD
128 mb ram
64mb graphics card (newest thing in it when I blew my old one).

Retro and loving it lol

But hell, I cant wait for my AMD Dual core later this month.

Doohickey · 12 Mar 2006 at 05:48

Ah I still remember the day when I added another 16mb of RAM onto my beloved Packard Bell 486 monster, for the princely sum of £20. It went like stink. :cool:

locutus12 · 12 Mar 2006 at 23:22

i bought a 32mb 72 pin simm for my 486 dx 33 from pc world 8 years back... £70

i also remember how impressed i was when i got a 250mb hard drive !!! went up from 40mb...

GAMEfreak · 13 Mar 2006 at 09:45

lol, *thinks back to retro games* ( p.s i'm only 17, only been playin pc games since i was 5 or so.) commander keen any1? mighty bomjack maybe? or xenon 1+2? hehe, pc games seem so much better in the past dont they? anyone play jill of the jungle, or jazz jackrabbit 1? eheheh it was a heartless clone of sonic, but better imho

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