- Synthmilk
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Damn...my PC is near godlike...and it's 5 years old!
HELL Dimension 8200
512 MB SDRAM
20Gig maindrive, with addon 250 gig secondary drive (maindrive is supposedly 72000 rpm but I am seriously doubting that...)
2.4 GHz P4 (first gen)
Origional graphics card: GeForce 4 Ti 4200 with 64 MB RAM and an AGP 4x connection.
WinXP Home with SP2 and all updates.
Yea, thats right, 4x. Played Halo at 800x600 with full everything for two hours at a time before it would start to suffer, and you want to know something else? It could play Doom 3 at MEDIUM graphics level just fine. I was shocked to say the least.
And I later learned that all of this was possible with the card's cooling fan not working. Sadly that was the downfall of my card, as I attempted to play some Halo one hot summer day, and, well, there was also a lot of dust buildup...I fried my card, there was tearing in spots and lag and it just wan't a pretty sight, even when not playing a game. I have saved the card just in case it is fixable, but I doubt it. So I moved up in the world with a GeForce 5500 OC AGP 8x 128 MB card.
Expecting to kick some ass right? Nope, I can't even play Halo on 800x600 with NO graphics enabled (all settings to off or lowest) and it still lags out, even with the case open and a damned fan blowing on it. To say the least I am pissed, though I got that card in the "Please, for the love of God take this -blam!-" bin for 32 bucks so that may have something to do with it...
I am currently replaying oldschool games that actually run without lagging, like, Marathon...though it does lag a bit sometimes every now and then.
Saving my sheckles for a new comp next year with the release of Vista, three thousand dollar machine, here I come! (not including monitor, speakers, etc.)
Just felt like sharing that, as any comment I could make regarding the origional poster's computer would revert to me telling a tail about my Dad's 1995 vintage custom machine...works better with the "Universal Accelerator Card" turned off. And I love playing MechWarrior 3 on it, you can almost draw your name with a single laser shot. At least C&C Tiberian Sun works on it...ish...