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| Thread ID: 22780 | 2002-07-30 06:53:00 | Am upgrading for "IL2 Sturmovik" is this ok? | M8s_Kiwi (1266) | Press F1 |
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| 66716 | 2002-07-30 06:53:00 | Hi, am forced (long story) to upgrade my machine for the sole purpose of playing "IL2 Sturmovick", a combat type flight sim, with a min requirement of 1 GHz processor, 256 Mb Ram, and either a GeForce2 32 Mb, or a Geforce3 3D accelerator video card. I am told the game is also sound intensive. I already have a nVIDIA RIVA TNT2 M64 Video card, ( cannot afford A new vidoe card as well, that will come in future months) which I wish to put in the following motherboard. Will this give me a good system for the above game?, or are there alternitve sugestions? Thanks for your time and input, Regards Ron AMD Athlon 1800XP Socket A CPU + Fan Retail Boxed $262 Asus A7V266-EX Socket A Motherboard ATX, VIA KT266A Chipset, 266Mhz FSB 3x184pin DDR slots 1xAGP 5xPCI 2xIDE ATA100 *6 Channel PCI Audio $278 or Soltek SL-75DRV5 Socket A Motherboard ATX, VIA KT333 Chipset, 266Mhz FSB 3x184pin DDR slots 1xAGP 5xPCI 2xIDE ATA133 *Integrated AC97 Audio ($221) Legend 512MB PC2100 DDR Memory $337 Creative Soundblaster Live 5.1 Special Edition PCI Sound Card $84 Totals $961 ($904) |
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| 66717 | 2002-07-30 08:33:00 | It's highly likely that your graphics card will render any other upgrade a waste of time... What is your present system like? |
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| 66718 | 2002-07-30 09:03:00 | agree with biff here. the TNT2 m64 will not handle it. pointless upgradeing. wait untill you can afford better graphics card. you can also get away with 256 ram instead of 512. don't forget you will need a 300+watt powersupply and a decent case. |
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| 66719 | 2002-07-30 10:07:00 | I was the proud owner of a Macrocom Comp, whose powerpack gave up the ghost and pumped 240 volts through the system ZAP! absolutley everthing (bar the video card) busted. (and now you say it's crap! LOL) Oh the joy of it! So I suppose apart from the monitor keyboard etc.. it's a new machine. i do have the use of a borrowed floppy, hard drive and cd rom, which I will need to replace in time also. I wont be overclocking etc.. as this stuff is over my head. | M8s_Kiwi (1266) | ||
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