Current system: One very old and kluged Dell 2350
1.8g P4 CPU
512mb Memory (ddr 1 @ 2700, I think)
80+ g of HD space
NO PCI E slots, originally had on board ethernet and sound. The ethernet died, the sound I 'upgraded' to a pci SB Audiaulogy (not sure it was actually an upgrade anymore though)
On board intel graphics chip, also no longer used. So out of the 3 pci slots it came with, I now have a ethernet card, the SB Audiaulogy, and a 256m ATI X1300 graphics card.
And I'm bloody tired of missing out on half of the tf missions because I move so slowly between zones and to and from mission maps. The fastest fix, of course, would be to scrape together $60 or so and replace the two 256m sticks with a single 1g stick.
But thats just a band aid. And still wouldnt help what I suspect to be the real problem at the moment, that the existsing PCI bus just cant handle the current level of buss traffic. This is also based on an observation that I have the worst lag problems when a large number of noisy or graphicly flashy powers go off at once. And when I ZC, its right about when the sound for the new zone or whatever should start playing...
So, obviously I need a new system. And I need to balance cheap vs game performance, vs future upgradeabilty.
Help?
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
1.8g P4 CPU
512mb Memory (ddr 1 @ 2700, I think)
80+ g of HD space
NO PCI E slots, originally had on board ethernet and sound. The ethernet died, the sound I 'upgraded' to a pci SB Audiaulogy (not sure it was actually an upgrade anymore though)
On board intel graphics chip, also no longer used. So out of the 3 pci slots it came with, I now have a ethernet card, the SB Audiaulogy, and a 256m ATI X1300 graphics card.
And I'm bloody tired of missing out on half of the tf missions because I move so slowly between zones and to and from mission maps. The fastest fix, of course, would be to scrape together $60 or so and replace the two 256m sticks with a single 1g stick.
But thats just a band aid. And still wouldnt help what I suspect to be the real problem at the moment, that the existsing PCI bus just cant handle the current level of buss traffic. This is also based on an observation that I have the worst lag problems when a large number of noisy or graphicly flashy powers go off at once. And when I ZC, its right about when the sound for the new zone or whatever should start playing...
So, obviously I need a new system. And I need to balance cheap vs game performance, vs future upgradeabilty.
Help?
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children