Anything & everything regarding Doom 3 and Half-Life 2

simmy · Post by **simmy** » 20 Jul 2004, 16:49

Dom · Post by **Dom** » 20 Jul 2004, 17:20

po10cy wrote:Thanks for the advice onlyone, I was thinking of also getting a p4 prescott cpu, I heard they can be overclocked quite extensively.

Nope... you're thinking of P4 Northwoods. The Prescott's tend to get a little hot when overclocked. Hell, Prescott's run a bit hot all the time anyway!

I suppose if you have a decent HSF then you would be okay.

RuadRauFlessa · Post by **RuadRauFlessa** » 21 Jul 2004, 09:40

HL2

amdretard wrote: 2.4 GHz Processor
512MB RAM
DirectX 9 level graphics card
Windows 2000/XP
Mouse
Keyboard

CPU - Almost exact match
RAM - got more than twice that
GFX - got DX9 gfx
WIN - no **** shirlock
Mouse - Dang these ppl must thing rigs comes without pherepirals
KB - Check above comment

Doom 3

amdretard wrote: 2GHz CPU
512MB RAM
Radeon 9800 card
five-channel sound card and speakers

CPU - got more than that to start off with Intel 2.4
RAM - whoopy not another 512Mb RAM Hey I can fit both games into memory so why bother looking at memory usage
GFX - Uh ok maybe I'm a bit under here with my 5700 but it will do the job
WIN - XP XP XP XP XP XP XP XP XP who the hell uses any winsuck OS once mickysoft has retracted all support thereof
Mouse - DUH
KB - no brainer here

What more you wanna know

Oh and that be my work rig at home since my gaming one is under construction

kailinin · Post by **kailinin** » 21 Jul 2004, 09:48

so what specs will this gaming rig have?

Demoraliser · Post by **Demoraliser** » 21 Jul 2004, 09:53

Raud wrote:

Oh and that be my work rig at home since my gaming one is under construction

Show off!!

Algernon · Post by **Algernon** » 21 Jul 2004, 10:00

My prescott runs between 30 - 40 degrees, when only working in windows. When playing games eg. Farcry, it reaches 48 - 54. Is this bad?

RuadRauFlessa · Post by **RuadRauFlessa** » 21 Jul 2004, 10:19

That be good for a prescot.

Anways

Game rig will be something like a dual 939 Socket with at least 2GB RAM and 9x80GB SCSI HDD's in a RAID5 configuration. Also looking at getting a decent SoundBlaster card. I am however contemplating on waiting for the dual 6800 GFX configuration but that is truly going to blow my budget as I originally only bugeted for a single. I can get the ECC Reg memory basically for free since I know the ppl to know in that respect. I am busy with the box at the moment so will see when I get my commision I will invest in the rest.

kailinin · Post by **kailinin** » 21 Jul 2004, 11:38

8O 8O 8O

somehow i think you'll blow solo's 30k 3dmarks out of the water with that. 8O 8O 8O

Algernon · Post by **Algernon** » 21 Jul 2004, 11:56

where can i get solo's 30k 3dmarks???

I received this link from simmy

http://www.futuremark.com/download

RuadRauFlessa · Post by **RuadRauFlessa** » 21 Jul 2004, 11:57

That remains to be proven though.

I want the RAID5 basically for data integrity but it actually slows down disk IO by a certain degree which would soewhat hamper loading times and such. But for raw processing it would be a killer.

RuadRauFlessa · Post by **RuadRauFlessa** » 21 Jul 2004, 11:58

right here

simmy · Post by **simmy** » 22 Jul 2004, 08:25

id Software's Official DOOM3 Benchmarks : The folks at id Software have been kind enough to share with us benchmarks from the upcoming DOOM 3. We look at NVIDIA's and ATI's finest in a head to head comparison.

[H]ard|OCP

Post by **OnlyOneKenobi** » 22 Jul 2004, 10:11

Good find, Simmy!

Here's a quote from that article that should put everyone to rest...

For those of you that think you are not going to have the hardware that you need to play DOOM 3, the fact of the matter is that many of you will be just fine, although an upgrade may still be in your future. As of this afternoon we were playing DOOM 3 on a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 box with a GeForce 4 MX440 video card and having a surprisingly good gaming experience. Even a subtle jump to an AMD 2500+ with a GeForce 3 video card that is two years old will deliver a solid gaming experience that will let you enjoy the game the way id Software designed it to be. That fact alone should let many of you know that you will not be left behind in experiencing DOOM 3.

po10cy · Post by **po10cy** » 22 Jul 2004, 10:16

Excellent, atleast I will be playing doom3 at a reasonable quality. :thumbs up:

Can't wait till i buy my 6800 ultra and p4 prescott and 1gig ram, then it will be awsome.

style121 · Post by **style121** » 22 Jul 2004, 15:25

Just a quick link to the latest benchmark done for Doom3 using the O.G. game and timedemo, and what cards are going to give you blistering framerates

http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQy

Looking forward to it

simmy · Post by **simmy** » 22 Jul 2004, 15:28

...ahem...

Post by **OnlyOneKenobi** » 22 Jul 2004, 15:29

style121 wrote:Just a quick link to the latest benchmark done for Doom3 using the O.G. game and timedemo, and what cards are going to give you blistering framerates

http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQy

Looking forward to it

Yeah that's the link that simmy posted, interesting read.

style121 · Post by **style121** » 22 Jul 2004, 15:52

Oops, sorry guys, didn't feel like reading through the whole post at graft. Oh well, now you're all double sure!!

amdretard · Post by **amdretard** » 22 Jul 2004, 16:21

anthrax · Post by **anthrax** » 22 Jul 2004, 20:07

what kind of framerates do you think I can expect for D3 and HL2.

2800+ Barton
768 MB DDR 400
X800 Pro

Nerevar · Post by **Nerevar** » 22 Jul 2004, 20:10

On doom you will get about 60 to 70 fps at max detail.
HL2 100 to 120 fps

This is what I think....

Algernon · Post by **Algernon** » 23 Jul 2004, 12:23

Maybe not the best place to submit this, but don't want to open another threat.

Anywho, according to http://www.take2.co.za/product.php?id=6493 , they will sell Doom3 for R 292.

Cool stuff!!!!

Post by **OnlyOneKenobi** » 23 Jul 2004, 13:07

Yeah I saw Doom 3 at Take 2, good price. I just hope it arrives before the 13th, which is their estimated release date for SA.

amock · Post by **amock** » 26 Jul 2004, 09:46

anybody got a clue as to how this rig will run doom 3 -->

1.3 GHZ Duron
256mb ram at 266
ti4800 128mb

can't find any info for such a slow CPU

BillaBoy · Post by **BillaBoy** » 26 Jul 2004, 09:50

What is the creature on the Doom3 package?
Pinky?
Revenant?
Hell Knight ?

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