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  • 27-10-2005 10:00am
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    chump
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    Intel® Pentium® D 820 (2.8GHz, 800FSB, 2X1MB Cache) [
    Memory - 1024MB Dual Channel DDR2 533MHz (2x512) Memory
    Monitor - Dell 19" Value Flat Panel (E193FP)
    Video Card - 256MB nVidia GeForce 6800 (DVI/VGA/TV-out)
    Hard Drive - 320GB Serial ATA RAID 0 Stripe [2x160GB 7200rpm drives with DataBurst™ cache]
    Speakers - Dell 5650 5.1 Surround Speaker System


    I'm getting this machine from dell next week somestage...
    Now I know it isn't "top" of the line for gaming, the processor isn't the most suited and the gfx is maybe a bit average, but compared to other machines I've played games on before this is a beast...

    I haven't been into games in a good while... due to underpowered-ness but I was a big quake1er back in the day for a year or 2, or was it 3 and am looking to try out a few of the newer games...

    So what do yas suggest?
    And is there any patches and stuff for the newer games to make em work smoother on dual-type cpus?
    And is there any good "demos" ?
    And what are the best gfx drivers for the above gfx card?


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    madrab
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    well half life 2 would be a good start, farcry, FEAR(on lower settings)

    and of course battlefield 2


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    Ri_Nollaig
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    quake4 is out now and if u were a fan of the orginal u will like this :)
    the 6800 (ultra/gt/le?) will play FEAR perfectly on res around 1280*1024 (ie ur 19" lcd) wit all eye candy on... does for me anyway (put the textures down to medium tho and same for BF2 if u get it as 2gig is really needed if u want high textures)


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    Placebo
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    thinking of getting that pc, is that G card ne good?
    would it run HL2 smoothly at a good resoultion ?

    and or what card would i need to run BF2, FEAR , DOOM3 etc well ?


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    chump
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    placebo u missed the boat, the pc is now more than 500euros more expensive... it was a slip mistake on dells part :D

    i ordered last nite


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    Placebo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,070 ✭✭✭Placebo


    seriously ? hahahah
    damn


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    Ri_Nollaig
    Registered Users Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭Ri_Nollaig


    did u get the order confirmed? cuz that happens to dell alot it seems :p fair play if u did :D
    and the 6800gt is a brillant card granted its not in the same level as the 7800 r X1800 but its half the price too... and will play ALL current games perfectly on standard res


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