What do you guys think of this rig for half life2 and doom3?

[Tret]

Case: ANTEC Performance PLUS Model PLUS1080AMG- with Antec Original TRUE 430W P4 Power Supply $105

Cd burner/Dvd rom: Lite On Black 48x24x48x16 $56.99

Floppy: Sony $10

Harddrive: western digital 80gb 7200 rpm 8mb cache $83.00

Memory: GEIL DDR RAM 512MB PC-3200 Value 400MHz Ultra $87.00 x 2= $174

Monitor: NEC/Mitsubishi 19" CRT VGA Monitor Model FE991SB-BK Retail $258

Motherboard: Asus Motherboard for AMD Athlon 64 Processors, Model# K8V Deluxe $158

Mouse: Microsoft Intelli-Mouse Explorer Version 3.0a $29

Keyboard: already have one

Processor: Amd 64 3200 $Tbd

Sound card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 $73

Video Card: SAPPHIRE OEM RADEON 9800 PRO 128MB DVI/TV 8X AGP BULK $309

Windows xp pro $130

Speakers: I'm going to buy a home theater system

Grand Total without Cpu $1600 Possible Total with cpu 2grand

 

[Kenny]

If you're gonna get a new rig just for those games, hold off on it.

Sounds like it has enough "oomph" for it though.

 

[MacBaine]

I wish I could afford that...

 

[dartworth]

I don't know if the case will handle HL2.

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: MacBaine
I wish I could afford that...

 

[Tret]

I don't know either maybe I should get a 250 lian li case and a antec 550watt psu and watercool it

 

[upsciLLion]

I have a slight feeling that he was joking.

 

[Tret]

Originally posted by: upsciLLion
I have a slight feeling that he was joking.

I know that I was being sarcastic

 

[upsciLLion]

No you weren't.

 

[minendo]

It sucks.

 

[dartworth]

and that floppy...D3 will destroy that too...

 

[Schadenfroh]

XP pro is not worthy, use debian

 

[Danman]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
XP pro is not worthy, use debian

 

[her209]

[Tim Taylor] More power [/Tim Taylor]

 

[prvteye2003]

Memory: GEIL DDR RAM 512MB PC-3200 Value 400MHz Ultra $87.00 x 2= $174

to me personally, it sounds like you're trying to go all out....noting the amd64 board and cpu so why would you skimp on the memory?

 

[nan0bug]

Originally posted by: prvteye2003

Memory: GEIL DDR RAM 512MB PC-3200 Value 400MHz Ultra $87.00 x 2= $174

to me personally, it sounds like you're trying to go all out....noting the amd64 board and cpu so why would you skimp on the memory?

I agree. If you're going to buy value memory, get Buffalo (Winbond BH-5 if you can find them).

 

[Maleficus]

Drop the POS Creative Audigy and ur good.

Get a M-Audio Revolution or Turtle Beach Santa Cruz

 

[Shockwave]

I'll never use another Asus board as long as I live. You couldnt give me one of the peices of shyte. Find a different board.

 

[00Jones]

Originally posted by: prvteye2003

Memory: GEIL DDR RAM 512MB PC-3200 Value 400MHz Ultra $87.00 x 2= $174

to me personally, it sounds like you're trying to go all out....noting the amd64 board and cpu so why would you skimp on the memory?

And get a gig. 512 will probably be the recommended. You will want more then that.

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
XP pro is not worthy, use debian

Yeah, DirectX 9 graphics SUCK...its all about the command-line interface for HL2 server on Debian baby!!!

 

[Lager]

Here's a Half-Life 2/Doom III rig.

1GB Cosair XMS PC3500
AMD XP+ 3200 Processor
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
160GB Seagate 8MB HDD
M-Audio 7.1 Revolution Sound
Asus A7N8X Deluxe (Rev. 2.0)
Dell 1901FP LCD
Lian-Li PC65

 

[RobCur]

can't make up my mind whether the upgrade is worth it, was looking at XP 2200 1.8ghz for 63.85 shipped over my duron 1.3ghz *confused*
I don't game much at all so this upgrade maybe null?

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: RobCur
can't make up my mind whether the upgrade is worth it, was looking at XP 2200 1.8ghz for 63.85 shipped over my duron 1.3ghz *confused*
I don't game much at all so this upgrade maybe null?

Save up a few more bucks and get a Barton 2500+.

 

[Twista]

Originally posted by: jfano
I don't know if the case will handle HL2.

Case: ANTEC Performance PLUS

 

[Cerb]

I think you should wait until the games and benchmarks are out. not to mention the hardware we're going to see before Christmas. The last thing you want is to chuck out now and then find you could easily OC an Athlon64 to 2.6GHz and blow everything out of the water, you know?