My HL2 rig

[beefcurtains]

Hi all, just finished it and its running sweet, can wait for HL2 just so i can see how it will run on it. What are others running?

Specs below!!!

 

[Maxi]

AMD XP 1700+ @ 2100mhz
80gig WD Caviar SE + IBM (now hitatchi) Deskstar 120gxp 60gig
Radeon 9700 pro
Random case moded so that watercooling fits inside (+ window mod)
512mb of pc2700 ddr
CD-RW 48x
XP Home

Ill be getting the R420 when it gets released. Currently i can run all the games out there with full settings. Sahweet.

 

[RandomPING]

Pretty good stuff, but the case isn't going to have a huge effect on the speed beef .

 

[Shuzer]

My rig:

AMD Athlon XP 2500+ @ 2800+
120GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (7200RPM, 8MB Cache)
512MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM
Radeon 9700
XP Pro

 

[Sgt.Igneri]

Edit: Ehhh, nvm. Its just a pic thread.

 

[beefcurtains]

Pretty good stuff, but the case isn't going to have a huge effect on the speed beef .

Yeah but it looks sweet.......

Specially when payday comes and all those lovely Cold cathodes, light fans etc go in it, And i finalise the window design!

What i really need to find out is if ill need a gig of 400 mhz ram to run HL2 with everything up full. I think the GF FX card should be man enough for the job. Havent got a game at the mo that i cant run full speced. Just hope the same with HL2.

They say itll run on a low end system, have there been any demos of this though???

 

[Shuzer]

Yeah but it looks sweet.......

Specially when payday comes and all those lovely Cold cathodes, light fans etc go in it, And i finalise the window design!

What i really need to find out is if ill need a gig of 400 mhz ram to run HL2 with everything up full. I think the GF FX card should be man enough for the job. Havent got a game at the mo that i cant run full speced. Just hope the same with HL2.

They say itll run on a low end system, have there been any demos of this though???

You'll only need 512MB RAM, but 1GB couldn't hurt

As for your graphics card, that's the worst part about your system. Hate to break it to you, but the FX5200/5600 cards are the worst of all the DX9 cards out today. You probably won't be able to run at full detail in DX9 mode, if DX9 mode will even be playable at all.

 

[beefcurtains]

You'll only need 512MB RAM, but 1GB couldn't hurt

As for your graphics card, that's the worst part about your system. Hate to break it to you, but the FX5200/5600 cards are the worst of all the DX9 cards out today. You probably won't be able to run at full detail in DX9 mode, if DX9 mode will even be playable at all.

Not a massive problem, the card has done very well up until now...lol. Its still gonna piss on a GF4 or 3 card. The biggest system hogging game i have has to be BF 1942 or Unreal 2 and they both run at full spec with no probs at 1600X1200.

If the game is that good it would be worth upgrading to a top of the range GF Fx or ATI equiv, whats £300 for gaming heaven??? I have heard that the ATI cards out perform their counterpart GF Fx cards as well, but until now i have no complaints. We will have to wait and see me thinks?

 

[Shuzer]

Not a massive problem, the card has done very well up until now...lol. Its still gonna piss on a GF4 or 3 card. The biggest system hogging game i have has to be BF 1942 or Unreal 2 and they both run at full spec with no probs at 1600X1200.

If the game is that good it would be worth upgrading to a top of the range GF Fx or ATI equiv, whats £300 for gaming heaven??? I have heard that the ATI cards out perform their counterpart GF Fx cards as well, but until now i have no complaints. We will have to wait and see me thinks?

Actually, it's been shown in benchmarks that the GF4 Ti series card outperforms the FX5600

But yeah, just wait and see.. nVidia seems to be gaining FPS with new driver releases

 

[-=[Diablo]=-]

heres mine , looking realyy forward for aprill

Processor: AMD Athlon™ XP Processor 3200+
Motherboard: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe NVIDIA® nForce2™ SPP Motherboard DDR
Memory: 1GB Corsair XMS DDR SDRAM PC-3200 - 2x512MB
Video Card: ATI RADEON™ 9800 XT 256MB 8x AGP w/DVI & S-Video
Hard Drive: 160GB Seagate Barracuda Serial ATA 7200rpm w/ 8MB Cache - Quantity 1
Optical Drive One: Plextor Plexwriter Premium 52x32x52 CD-RW - Black
Optical Drive Two: Plextor PX-708A 8x DVD±R/W Drive - Black
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy 2 6.1

 

[RandomPING]

Mine is

2.4 Pentium 800Mhz FSB
Lanparty mobo
750 MB DDR400
Radeon 9800 Pro AIW
Audigy 2 Sound Card
Antec P160 Case
...and some fans

I love it. I'm thinking about overclocking the processor considering i bought an all copper thermaltake heatsink that makes it hardly ever get much hotter then the ambient case temp.

 

[Meteor_of_War]

My Half-Life2 rig, although back in September i wish i believed the rumor mill that it was going to be delayed and decided to hold off on my upgrade. Oh well...

AthlonXP 3000+ 400 FSB (stock speed at the moment)
Asus A7N8X 2.0 Deluxe motherboard
2x512mb Corsair pc3200 DDR RAM 400MHz
ATI 9800 Pro 128mb
WindowsXP Pro

 

[Vigilante]

Athlon XP 2600+ at 2.2 ghz
768 pc 2700
80 gig western digital 7200
Radeon 9600 pro (440/310)

 

[The Terminator]

Athlon XP 2100+ 1.7 Ghz
1024 mb DDR ram
20 gig HDD
128 mb ati radeon 9600
soundblaster live
aopen ak3-777 mobo
windows xp

 

[ImJacksAmygdala]

AMD64 3700+
ATI IXP400 motherboard
1gig (2X512mb) DDR550 Corsair 1024TwinXDDR2proC2
2X 74mb WD Raptors in RAID 1+0
ATI R423 256mb AIW PCIexpress
Audigy2 ZS
LianLi PC-61 case
Enermax 460watt PSU
WinXP64pro

 

[Shuzer]

AMD64 3700+
ATI IXP400 motherboard
1gig (2X512mb) DDR550 Corsair 1024TwinXDDR2proC2
2X 74mb WD Raptors in RAID 1+0
ATI R423 256mb AIW PCIexpress
Audigy2 ZS
LianLi PC-61 case
Enermax 460watt PSU
WinXP64pro

lol, nice joke.. but, next time, make sure you have bigger HDs than 74MB, must not hold much

 

[ImJacksAmygdala]

lol, nice joke.. but, next time, make sure you have bigger HDs than 74MB, must not hold much

They are two 74mb 10krpm Raptors working in both RAID 0 striping and RAID 1 mirroring at the same time using only two SATA harddrives... Thats also the best performance you can get at 148mb of data storage using SATA.

And that list is very serious. That is what I will be building for Halflife2. I've read all the roadmaps and that list will be available sometime around May 2004.

 

[Brian Damage]

I think you mean 74 and 148 gb, not mb.

 

[ImJacksAmygdala]

I think you mean 74 and 148 gb, not mb.

LOL! Ya, thats what I meant to bad you can edit you posts here... (very annoying)

 

[mrk]

lol @ mb *kekekeke* ^_^

anyway... I "know" HL2 will run fine for me at 1152x864



xp2400+ @ 2.21GHz (1.7v)
1GB crucial ddr2100 (2,3,3,6,2) @ 294mhz ddr
abit kr7a 133r mobo
golden sample ti4200 (300/600)
santa cruz audio
lg flatron (100Hz native 1152x864)
a comfortable wheely chair and laminate flooring to go "weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" on


reason for still using kt266a mobo? no need to upgrade... every game runs good at 1152 with max settings...cant say fairer than that

 

[Shuzer]

LOL! Ya, thats what I meant to bad you can edit you posts here... (very annoying)

Wow, I thought you were being serious about 74MB after your second post.. lol, I was totally confused.. that was the whole intent of my post

 

[Brian Damage]

I've got an 80MB harddrive... in my Amiga 1200.

Gonna swap it out for a 1GB when I get some time.

 

[beefcurtains]

lol @ mb *kekekeke* ^_^

anyway... I "know" HL2 will run fine for me at 1152x864

What are the top resolutions for HL2????

Does anyone know, was hoping it would be maximum of at least 1600 x 1200.

 

[TrueWeltall]

My rig is

P4C 2.4ghz
120bg hd
radeon 9600xt
antec 3700 with the 120mm fans
audigy 2 zs
1gb corsair xms 3200
1 cd burner lite on
1cd rom lite on

 

[Willber123]

what do u want a medal or something?


jokes :cheers:

 

[chu]

I am still working on my "going on" 3 year old Alienware.

Right now she is at (from an upgrade)

AMD Athlon XP 2400+
Asus A7N66-C mobo
512mb DDR PC-2100
60gig HD (free, courtesy of alienware)
40gig HD
Radeon 9600XT 128mb
some shitty audio card that came with the mobo, need to get a new one

I think I should be alright when HL2 comes out

 

[|SwE|FishStick]

I've just got the final parts for my HL2 Rig today and man im anxious to plug them in and get it running because my current rig is a P2 400Mhz wiht 128mb SDram and Riva TNT 2 32mb PCI. i Sold the other rig i had so that i'll have more space for my other stuff.. Anyway, here it is!

A7N8X-Deluxe/gold Rev 2.0
Barton 2500+ @ 3200+ (for now..)
2x256mb DDR KingsMAX PC3200 (400Mhz) @ Dual channel (will be adding 512mb more soon)
Powercolor Radeon 9800Pro
Seagate 120Gb 8mb Cache
Zalman CNPS7000A-AlCu
Audio = Soundstorm

Weee! :cheese:

 

[cpu killer]

Intel Pentium 4 3.2ghz Extreme Edition 2MB L3
Abit IC7-G MAX III
Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro
Seagate Barracuda V 120gb Serial ATA 150 7200RPM
2*256 MB Samsung Matched Pair DDR400 @ Dual Channel

Hope I'll be ok...