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Would this computer work as a Quake machine?

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giambi77

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I have an old computer with the following stats:

60 MHz Pentium
32mb ram
4mb video card
6.5 gb maxtor hard drive

Would this be useable with windows2000 pro? I would mostly be playing QuakeI and probably at one of the lowest resolutions, so I don't need it for other intensive applications.

LMK!
 
Quake would run pretty poorly. I used to have trouble with a mod of quake with my 233. It was quite slow. Also, don't even bother trying to run Windows 2000. It is not going to happen. If you are interested in building a dirt cheap computer for playing Quake and other less graphically intensive games let us know.
 
Not fast enough for Win2000, my PPro 200 chokes with it.

As for Quake, maybe if running it straight from DOS... but I wouldn't reccomend it.
 
Definately way to slow with not near enough memory for Win2k. I suggest putting Win98 on it. If you just want to play the original Quake, I suggest you pick of a Voodoo 2 card. You can get these very cheap nowdays. With the Voodoo 2 card, you could probably even get away with playing Quake 2. More memory would be nice though.
 
Well, I guess I better give up all hope of running windows2000 on that system 🙁 Would you guys suggest win95 or win98? Right now I have a flavor of Mandrake on the hard drive (8 i think) but the installation process seems pretty complicated....any one know some decent walk throughs?

sorry for the semi-rant! Any ideas/comments/suggestions would be appreciated!
 
Win95 and Win98 are pretty close to being the same OS. It really doesn't matter which one you chose. Although, 95 is a tad less resource intensive if I am not mistaken. I wouldn't run Windows 2000 with under 128MB of memory. You need 256MB to have a more reasonable level of performance.
 
I used to run win2k on a p200mmx with 128 meg of ram, too ages to load, but ones everything was loaded it ran pretty well considering the speed of the machine. P60 it would definitely choke on, regardless of ram methinks.
 
Heh...maybe I'll just have to turn it into a jukebox 🙂 Are there any real advantages to having a seperate MP3 box? I mean it's easy enough to just have a playlist and winamp on your main machine....whatever heh
 
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