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Hey guys! Howzit going with PCF freakz? I'd like to know if my computer is up for gaming. U know the needs. Then we all can share our own computer specs with each other also. .. So plz gimme ur opinion!

I have:

ABit MB with
Onboard Geforce FX 128mb ddr
Onboard Creative 5.1 channel soundcard
onboard lan
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
512mb ddr 333mhz
40gb maxtor 7200rpm hdd
17" Samsung monitor

Thanks guys!!

Couldnt you rub it in a littl more

That system is perfect for gaming. Just want to know, what mobo is it exactly? I never saw one wit a onboard graph card higher than a GF3

My Rig:
XP 2200+
Leadtek TI4200 128MB
GA-7vax
256MB (NOT NUFF )
and so on ...........

and it runs like a dream in games, but I wont talk about the 3DMarks

11000

Here's my rig:

AMD Athlon XP2400+
MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR
Gigabyte Geforce FX5700 Ultra 128mb
512Mb DDR333
Onboard 5.1 Sound(soundstorm?)
2X20GB Hard drives(Definately not enuff)

Everything at stock standard with no tweaks no nothing and everything on default test settings:
Benches 12000 3dmarks at 3dmark01SE.I'm real proud of that,especially considering that I got the card two days ago,last card:TnT2,highest score,8723dmarks.

Charger, what was the settings for the bench???

Res, AA and such

Default settings. Just installed 3dmark and clicked benchmark.I know res was 1024x768x32,I'm not sure about the rest

I think default has AA enabled, dunno really, cant check. I installed NVidea 52.16 drivers and it messed a bunch of stuff up, including 3DMark. Now that I rolled back to 45 its the only thing not working

Check if stuff like AA and anistrophic filter is disabled. If not, disable and run again.

My rig is pretty pathetic
Intel celeron 1.4 GHZ
512 MG sd ram
2 x 20 gig hardrives at 5400 rpm
geforce 4 MX 440 64 mg ddr
win xp home
17 " Monitor
52 cdrom
52x24x52 cd writer
56 k

and phycho u think your 3d marks are bad i get 4000

*lol* , i swear my rig is even more pathetic

Duron 1200
Gigabyte GA-7dxE mobo
32mb TNT 2 m64 (getting replaced by a FX 5600XT soon)
128mb DDR266
1 x 20gb Seagate (5400rpm)
1x 120gb Western Digital SE (7200rpm, 8mb cache)
24x10x40x Samsung CDRW
Genuis 4.1 Sound card

3d Marks 2001 : 792 marks ( i swear of the ppl able 2 run marks2001 on the forums, i'm probably the only sub-1000 person, *lol*)

Alien, that 3dmark is a bit low, even for that rig, methinks. I think you need a serious tweak.

Axis, you think thats low, I got a friend wit a Radeon 7000, and he gets 500

Man with the newest drivers and a bit of tweaking you could run anygame under the sun Funky! But to you guys with old PCs, I got one too!
Athlon XP2000+
Epox 8RDA3I
512 DDR Ram
Geforce 2 MX 400
40 GIG H\D

My advice - Get more RAM, tweak your hardware and get the newest drivers - I did, and my PC ran like a dream - until the PSU blew, then the MB, then the CPU....

More RAM and a better Graph card makes all the defference. In 3DMark03, its the only stuff that counts. I hate 3dmark03

thats wierd axis_K my pc is half of what you have and i get three times your score??? i got :

piii :450~mhz
256 mb pc133
40 gb seagate hdd ( 7200, 8 mb cache)
geforce 2 64mb ddr
and a pii mobo...

if i was to guess i would say it was the tnt2... thats whats holding you back. i know i had one of those cards and they are good but not great... i had a score of +- 500 and with a geforce 2 32mb i got +- 800... but try changing the card...

hope i helped?

Well here Goes:

AMD 2500+XP @2315Mhz
Chaintech CT-7NJL1 Motherboard Nforce 3.13 Unified
ATI 9600 Pro (Reference) @ 563/355
1x Transcend 256Mb DDR400 Ram @6-2-2-2-2
KME ATX Case with Window & 400W PSU
16xAopen DVD-Rom
40x12x40 Samsung Cd-Writer
Blue CCFL Light
Sony Home Theater Speakers

3dMark 01: 15000
3dMark 03: 4300

Since your not happy with your graph card, Ill take the burdan off your paws, fishy

Well if you gimme a R1500 gift then i'd sure as hell be happy to pass my burden onto you for nothing

Thats the SA spirit

here is my bro's PC that i designed and which i use most of the time:

P4 3GHz 800FSB HT
Gigabyte Ga - 8ik1100 8O
2 X 512 MB DDR 400 (dual channel)
GF FX 5900 Ultra (Leadtek)
Aopen 52X24X52X CD writer
60GB Seagate ATA 100 HDD

This pc was designed to last 2 years or so and not to be permanently upgraded! It works nicely

3dmark 2001 : +-17000
3dmark 2003 : 6300 (i hate this benchmark!!)

Praeses wrote:P4 4GHz 800FSB HT

Is that an overclocked 3.06GHz CPU? Cause to date there is no CPU faster than 3.2GHz that I know of

i did not make a type-o and fixed it juz now......

Praeses wrote:i did not make a type-o and fixed it juz now......

ROFLMAO, correction you did!