first few days of the forum opening i was here, actually maybe on the first day now that i think of it.
Just looking at some of your actually join dates, i checked like 20 of ya, 5-13-03 is mine, beat that! :rolling: :E
People...with the way the PC market for gaming is going this is the best thing that could really happen. The gaming industry on PC is on the decline, things like xbox becoming more like a PC would be ALOT more people in to our community,.
Get rid of the system, heres what you'll end up spending.
Mobo $120 for a decent one
Processor $175 for a 2.8c P4(overclock it to 3.3ghz area)
And one thing im sure you forgot in all this mess is that dell's come with a propierty(how you spell that?) power supply, which means you will...
do you know what you ordered for a video card?
If your using the computer now and dont have a video card in the PCI or AGP slot, then you have onboard video, which means %99 of the time you wont have an AGP slot, which means you will never have a good gaming machine or get good fps ever on...
If you actually want the best of the best get 2 15,000rpm HD's, rarely will you see people with those because they are so expensive.
My suggestion
Antec P160 case(with window)
p4 3.0C or higher
Abit IC-7 Max3 mobo
Mushkin RAM
Antec 400-450 watt smart/true power
74gig raptors in RAID...
sapphire builds ATI cards, yes the card that you get saying ATI is built by sapphire.
THen sapphire releases its own cards with its own names on it afterwords.
The better of the two mentioned above would be the Sapphire OEM card, they come with 2.8ns RAM, which means the ability to overclock...
Silent boot was most likley enabled in your BIOS, it will give you a black screen with a blinking white cursor line for 20-30 seconds before boot. Somehow these settings were changed.
If your upload is set to high it will congest your download, which means you will download very very slow. If a file is getting tons of hits then it will be slow because the tracker cant handle it.
Set your upload to dialup no matter what connection you have. And dont use the orgianal bt...
best all around drivers for nvidia for the geforce4 ti4600 are the 30.82's. Anything after that is just nit picking those drivers little things here and there. They are confirmed drivers for nvidia to work flawlessly in %99 of the games out there with no bugs.
did you run Hl2 in DX9?..By default it doesnt
The error signs can be turned off and on, in this case they are on, this is why you wouldnt seen them in the videos.
For you people with lesser system valves word seems to be true about the game running on lower end systems.
Running the game in DX6 or DX7 mode I get over 175fps on my 9800np. Which means you guys with Ti4xxx will probably get at least around 60 or more.
Sorry if this isnt allowed, just...