At 07:54 AM 6/13/01 +0200, Henrik Holm wrote:
>As other mentioned GeForce cards are IMO also most bang for the bucks.
>Ive not upgraded in a while:
>Processor: Athlon 600MHz
>RAM: PC133 256Mb SDRAM
>Sound: Soundblaster live (First version on the market)
>Graphics: ASUS 6800 (GeForce 1 with 32MB DDR RAM)
>Network: 10Mbit LAN to a ADSL 256kb/sec
>
>Only annoying problem I have is loading time from server select screen to
>character select *shrug*...
>I zone reasonbly fast when ingame, compared to others. But just to try and
>get my zoning to go faster I recently expanded my RAM to 256 (from 128) but
>did not notice any improvement on anything. Well I kinda expected that, but
>SDRAM is so cheap these days that I just had to try.
>I figure that my HD is due for an upgrade next(got a lousy UDMA33 4GB disk).
>
>As to video lag I do not have any. My GeForce performs flawlessly at
>1024x768 only times I note a slight slowdown is when ALOT casting is going
>on.
>
>Musiker, bard on bertox
FYI on Creative Labs products:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2774385,00.html
I have disabled the "obvious" part of their software (I have SBLive) but
apparently, it's still running things in the background via the internet. :-P