when will my rig be challenged?

[kendogg]

Heres the paste straight off my rig link for your convenience.

CPU: Intel P4 1700MHz
Motherboard: INTEL D850MV
Memory: 768 MB Kingston(256), Samsung (512) PC800
Video Card: Nvidia VisionTek (Geforce 2 Ultra 64MB)
Hard Drive: Maxtor 40.0 GB @ 7200 RPMS
Additional Hard Drives: Western Digital 27.7GB 7200RPM

Monitor: Sony 200ES 17"
CDROM Manufacturer & Model: Mitsumi 48x
DVD Manufacturer & Model: Pioneer 106S
CDR/CDRW Manufacturer & Model: Plextor (Iomega) 12x/10x/32x
Storage Interface: IDE

Sound Card: Sound Blaster Live Platinum
Internet Provider: Power Link
Internet Connection Type: Cable

Internet Connection Speed: 1.5 Megabits down/30KB up
Operating System: Windows XP

I love playing counter strike with a passion and now I can say that with a little more comfort knowing that its more enjoyable to play with those cheat prevention progs that the servers are using now. Anyhow cs is the only game I play... I run it at max resolution which is 1280 and when I type in the cl_showfps 1 command my FPS remains at 99 without any drops.. that makes me very happy

I guess I posted this because I was reading previews about the new GF4 (NV25). It only seems like last week I purchased my GF2 Ultra (I hate the damn market.. hehe sorta) I say to myself ... theres no game that will draw me away from cs... although I have said that with quake2

Is there any game out there or any game in the future that I wont be able to run with this setup.


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[jiffylube1024]

Perhaps Unreal II ... definately Doom 3 but that will take awhile to come out (another year +).

edit: I'm talkin about running it at high quality res/settings like 1024X768 X 32 bit

 

[Zlash]

Just look at the benchmarks for the g4 ti 4600 and compare them to yours, then go buy a 4600 =).

 

[spanky]

<< Just look at the benchmarks for the g4 ti 4600 and compare them to yours, then go buy a 4600 =). >>



benchmark junkie

 

[aphex]

My benchmarks with my Ati Radeon 64 DDR VIVO suck on my 1.2 Athlon.... Too bad i cant afford to upgrade

 

[Mitzi]

<< My benchmarks with my Ati Radeon 64 DDR VIVO suck on my 1.2 Athlon.... Too bad i cant afford to upgrade >>



Same here with my once kick ass Matrox G400 MAX! I think I'll have to get one of those GeForce4 cards pretty soon though - out of the last three recent games I've tried only one runs on my machine

 

[oldfart]

<< when will my rig be challenged? >>


Playing a game based on an engine that is several years old wont do it. Try RTCW!

 

[InsaneMorphius]

Second the oldman's comments

Otherwise, you'll be fine for awhile

 

[Brian07]

Don't know if your a Nascar fan, but Nascar season 2002 seems to be bringing down alot of systems.

 

[EMAN]

Try MOHAA.

It made my system craw.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Hehehe, try Diablo 2! LOL I dont know what Blizzard (North) were thinking with that one - all previous Blizz games ran on Pentium 1's fine, now D2 crawls at certain instances, no matter what (especially @ 800X600) ... its not a video card limitation, or certainly not a CPU one, just bad, bad programming. So if you want your awesome system to choke on a game with mediocre graphics, give it a shot!

 

[Metalloid]

I dont know about RTCW. My system seems to be taking it fine. I play it in 1600x1200x32, 16-tap anisotropic filtering, 2x AA, and I think the framerates are fine. I have an athlon xp 1600 and a Hercules Prophet II PRO. Is there anyway to check the actual fps in RTCW?

 

[MTDEW]

Try Nascar 2002 Season at 1600x1200x32bit color with 4x FSAA enabled & everything maxed in graphic options.

Bring my system to its knees with low teens for fps.

So I run at 1600x1200x16bit color NO FSAA & average 35fps. ;(

 

[Mavrick007]

Try Aquanox, it's supposedly a good test for video/cpu.