Re: X360 today. My thoughts....


"Zomoniac" <the_proper_one@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 2005-11-09 19:52:57 +0000, "Andrew Stirling"
> <andrewstirling@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> £1,900?? Christ. I put mine together with assorted bits from eBay, eBuyer,
> and my local component shop CCL:
>
> Athlon 3000+
> 1GB RAM
> 128MB Radeon 9800 Pro
> 450GB HDD (1 200GB SATA, 1 250GB IDE
> Board, Case, DVD writer, MS wireless optical desktop
> 19" TFT monitor
> HDTV Freeview TV receiver
> Win XP MCE
> JBL Creature 2 speakers
> Epson printer/scanner/etc
> 108MBps Wireless network dongle
>
> Cost somewhere in the region of £800. I know the graphics card and CPU
> aren't exaclty top end at them moment, and I tell a slight lie in that I
> didn't pay for the motherboard. The reason I got the Athlon and not the 64
> was I had a spare board lying around and that was the best chip to fit it.
>
> I'm also a bit curious as to people's comments about Doom 3, saying things
> like they can run it and HL2 well. I can run both HL2 and FEAR at 1024x768
> with high details and keep above 30fps. With Doom 3, if I set it to
> 800x600 with medium details I'm lucky to get double figures. Now I know
> there's some sort of bias to nVidia cards so on two near-specced cards the
> ATi will fare worse, but is the difference really that big?
>
> --
> Zo
>
> GamerTag: Zomoniac (Pro Evo 5, Halo 2, PGR2, MotoGP, DOAU, Outrun 2)
> Last game completed: Plump Pop (Taito Legends): Xbox - 08/10/2005
> Currently playing: Ico - PS2


I kind of went to town on mine. I got an athlon FX-57. 2 gig of memory. 2 x
300gb SATA hard drives running in raid 0. Coolermaster case. NVIDIA 7800gtx
graphics card......you get the picture. It runs Half Life 2 at 1600 x 1200
with FSAA and AA without the slightest judder. Certainly well above 30fps! I
haven't bothered to reinstall doom as I completed it on my last system.
The point I was trying to make is that even my system probably wont match
the 360 for power given that it has a next gen ATI chip inside it. And my
system cost a whole lot more than the 360 will.


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