Upgrading your computer for Half-Life 2

[Hyped]

I've seen a lot of threads where people are going to upgrade their current computer or just build/buy a new one specifically for Half-Life2. I'm just curious what the specs of people's new systems are going to be.

Post your new comp's specs here!

 

[un0x]

or post them at the hardware forum

intel 2,6 ghz
512 mb
radeon 9800 pro

muu

 

[thehunter1320]

1.83 ghz 2500+
512 MB PC2100 RAM
9600 Pro
60 GB HD
CD-RW Drive
DVD Drive
THE coolest case almost ever (of course alienware cases pwn all!!11!!!1!1!)

 

[Kenny]

See: http://80.60.215.125/homesystem.html

 

[Guest]

Well Ill play along... but expect some flaming
P4 2.8 ghz
1024 MB RAM
128 MB Radeon 9800 Pro
120 GB HD
SB Live 5.1
is what I got aright now

 

[Guest]

Originally posted by Kenny
See: http://80.60.215.125/homesystem.html

Must be nice to have the $$$ to run 3 rigs

 

[thehunter1320]

my case, it looks really kewl!!111!!11!!!

 

[[NZ]Killer]

P4 3.2
1GB Corsair Twinx
120GB HD
Geforce FX 5900 ( next will be an ATI )

I spend nearly my whole first earned money, but I needed to upgrade anyway.

 

[Rilcon]

Or *cough*five*cough*

I know I must have my priorities messed up, but i don't now what I'm missing...

My main rig is a P4 2.4, 1024mb 2700 ddr, radeon 9800pro and the normal stuff.

 

[harhar]

p3 1000, 768 sdram, 9000 radeon pro 128mb

 

[Feath]

MSI 865PE NEO (Intel® 865PE)
Intel® Pentium® 4 2.4GHz 800FSB Inc Hyper-Threading Technology
1GB PC2700 333DDR (2X512MB)
120GB Ultra DMA 100 7200rpm
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro AGP8X 128MB DDR with TV-Out + DVI
Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy™ 2 6.1 Inc Firewire
3.5" 1.44MB Floppy Drive

 

[Yapa]

Looks like you all have pretty mean machiens! Mines almost 2 years old and dating. Im only upgrading my video card to a radeon 9800.

My current snail is

XP2000+
512DDR
GF2 ti

So the radeon 9800 should make HL2 more than playable at a nice frame rate. The only reason im spending AUD$400 on the new card is because of HL2 and X2-THe Threat

Yapa

 

[Guest]

Originally posted by Rilcon
Or *cough*five*cough*

I know I must have my priorities messed up, but i don't now what I'm missing...

My main rig is a P4 2.4, 1024mb 2700 ddr, radeon 9800pro and the normal stuff.

You have 5 comps?

 

[Frank]

Gabe said we 1700+ XP users would be able to run it perfectly, so why update?

 

[liminal]

CPU Type----------------Intel Pentium 4HT, 2400 MHz Hyperthreading (Currently overclocked to 3Ghz)
Motherboard-------------Abit IC7(-G) (800mhz, FSB5 PCI, 1 8xAGP, 4 DIMM, Audio, IEEE-1394)
System Memory---------1024 MB Corsair (DDR SDRAM, Dual Channel)
Video Adapter-----------NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 (128 MB)
Monitor-------------------ViewSonic P95f+
Disk Drive---------------Western Digital WD1200BB-18CAA0 (120 Gig 8 Meg Buffer)

The Video card is my weak link at this point. I'll wait to see about the ATI/HL-2 bundle before I move to replace it.

 

[Snickerz]

Athlon XP 1800
Radeon 9700 Pro
512 DDR

 

[The Boatman]

AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+, 2.16GHz
1024MB RAM
ASUS A7N8X2.0 Deluxe (no sound card)
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra (256MB)
SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD
120GB HDD

...that's my (new) system. Quite a change from my old 800MHz Celeron 128MB RAM including 16MB integrated GPU with 20GB HDD...

 

[Shirow-DG]

Athlon XP 2500+ @ 200mhz FSB x 10
1GB Corsair XMS 3200 @ 200mhz 2-2-2-5
Abit NF7-S rev2
SATA RAID0 Western Digital 36GB 10k RPM drives
Sapphire Radeon 9800 flashed to 9800 Pro
Iiyama Vision Master Pro 514 22" CRT
Koolance Exos

Think that's the only interesting stuff. Most of the upgrades were bought for HL2

 

[liminal]

Originally posted by Frank
Gabe said we 1700+ XP users would be able to run it perfectly, so why update?

If your system is slower than that, perhaps?

 

[zdub]

P4 2.53ghz
1 gig of ram
60GB HD
cdrw
geforce 4 ti 4200 128mb
17 inch flat panel moniter
and me custom case with 3 neon blue lights.

 

[nbk-brando]

• BOARD: ASUS P4P800 i865PE CHIP 800MHZ FSB 8X AGP MAIN BOARD W/ LAN/5.1 SOUND/USB 2.0
  
  CAS: [BLUE] RaidCom 8-BAY ALUMINUM CASE + SEE THROUGH WINDOW
  
  CAS1: [BLUE] SOUND ACTIVED NEON LIGHT
  
  CAS2: STANDARD 420 WATT POWER SUPPLY
  
  CAS3: [BLUE] THERMAL TEMPERATURE LCD DISPLAY WITH 3X FAN CONTROLLER
  
  CPU: Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 3.2 GHZ CPU [800MHz FSB, Hyper Threading Ready]
  
  FAN: CERTIFIED CPU FAN, HEATSINK & 2 EXTRA 3-COLOR LED LIGHTING CASE FANS
  
  FDD: [BLUE] 1.44 MB FLOPPY DRIVE
  
  HDD: 80 GB 7200 RPM ULTRA ATA-100 HARD DRIVE
  
  KB: [BLUE] COMBO: MULTI-MEDIA / INTERNET KEYBOARD + INTERNET MOUSE
  
  MEMORY: 1024 MB DUAL CHANNEL DDR-400 [512MB X 2] PC3200 MHZ
  
  MONITOR: VIEWSONIC 19-INCHES E90 .23H DPI HORIZONTAL SVGA MONITOR
  
  NETWORK: 10/100 NETWORK LAN ONBOARD
  
  OS: [NEW] MS WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION
  
  SOUND: CREATIVE LAB SOUND BLASTER AUDIGY-2 PLATINUM 6.1
  
  SPEAKER: [BLACK] CREATIVE LABS INSPIRE 6600 6.1 SURROUND SPEAKERS + SUBWOOFER
  
  USB: STANDARD 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS
  
  VIDEO: ** 8X AGP ** ATI RADEON 9800 PRO 256MB W/ DVI + TV OUT 8X AGP VIDEO
  

It flys.

 

[nsxownzme]

AMD 2800+
1024DDR PC2700
120GB HDD WD SE
9800 PRO 128MB
Gigabyte GA-7VA 8x Mobo

 

[antimatter]

Intel P4 2.53Ghz
512mb RDRAM PC-800 (Soon to be 1GB)
80GB HD
Geforce4 MX440 (Soon to be Radeon 9800 Pro)

 

[sayam]

look at my sig .... i will be getting a vid card right before hl2 comes out

 

[Sigoo]

1.5Ghz P4
512rdram
9600 Pro

Its not that fast but it will do.

 

[Tork]

CPU: AMD Athlon 2400 (0302 STEPPING) 1.75V 200x11 = 2200MHz (I CAN GO MUCH HIGHER 2.4GHZ WITH MORE VOLTAGE)
CPU COOLING: SLK800 + VANTEC TORNADO 80MM (5600 RPM)+ HARDCANO CONTROLLED
CPU TEMP: 39-47
MAINBOARD: ASUS A7N8X 1.4 (NForce2)
DRIVE: Lite-On CDR-DVD Combo
MEMORY: CORSAIR XMS 2X256 200FSB 1.8V ( I CAN GO HIGHER )
VIDEOCARD: ATI RADEON 9700 PRO (BUILT BY ATI) 350/345MHz (ZALMAN HEATPIPE)
SOUND: SOUND AUDIGY 2 PLATINUM
HD: 3X WESTREN DIGITAL 120GB SPECIAL EDITION
PSU: ANTEC 350
CASE: XASER III (BLACK)
LCD: SAMSUNG SYNCMASTER 191T (BLACK)
OTHER: ATI TV WONDER PCI
MOUSE: LOGITECH MX500
KEYBOARD: LOGITECH BLACK ELITE KEYBOARD
OS: Windows XP Pro (all updates)

im ready for hl2

 

[merc]

Built a whole new computer

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Corsair 512MB pc3200
Abit NF7-S nForce2 Motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ OC'ed to 3200+
80 GB WD 8MB CACHE HARD DRIVE

Thats pretty much it

-merc

 

[TrueWeltall]

(click to see the case, 400W psu btw)
Cpu: Amd Althon Xp 2500
Memory: Pc2700 256mb (x2)
Mobo: K7N2 Delta-ILSR
Video: Connect3d 9500 np
(539 USD shipped)

Thats my christmas money system i plan to buy. If prices change which i bet they will ill rebuild the system again at newegg.

Parts i already have.
20 gig 7200 rpm maxtor harddrive
Lite-on cd rom (black)

Thats about it, just going to install games on it and leave it like that.

 

[SpuD]

CPU: AMD "Barton" 2500+
HSF: Aerocool "Phantom"
GFX: ATI Radeon 9500 Pro
MOBO: ASUS A7N8X-X
RAM: 640 MBS PC2100
HDD1: 40 G 7200RPM
HDD2: 120 G 7200RPM
CDR: 52/24/52 SONY CD BURNER
CASE: XPCGEAR XDreamer Silver, 2 case fans, window, thermometer.


I should be able to run hl2 decent, eh?
Im gonna OC the 2500 to a 3000 once I get PC3200 RAM

 

[genocide604]

athlon 1.8xp, g3ti500, 512ddr, 80gig hd 7200rpm, blah blah blah



upgrading to 9800pro... looks like ati will be t3h winn4r.

 

[smilez]

Intel celeron 2.4 Ghz
512 MB DDR Ram
Hercules Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb
Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
1 x 40GB drive
3 x 120GB drives
Windows 2000

 

[Jagermeister]

Athlon XP 2500+ Barton @ 12.5x166

Asus A7N8X Deluxe Rev1.04 BIOS1005

VisionTek 9800 Pro 128 MB

Corsair XMS PC2700 512MB (1) 5-2-2-2

IBM 120 GXP 60GB (2)

3DMark03 score

 

[ApocalypseNow]

p4 3.0 ghz 800mhz fsb
1024Mb Corsair Twinx Low Lantacy 400mhz duel DDR sdram
ATi AIW 9800 PRO

 

[EC]

Sig

 

[jAkUp]

sig

 

[n!k0n]

P 4 2,53 GHz
ATI Radeon 9000 Pro

my ram is *ggggg*
4BG ddr ram

 

[Global_Inferno]

All I can say is its nice in a way to see so many ATI users.. Especially after Gabe saying (in not so many words) that Half Life 2 runs better on ATI technology than it does on NVIDIA... Interesting stuff!!

 

[Beanhacker]

suppose i better line up for the pissing contest......

HL2 Setup

Carillon Audio PC (sexy ass case)
p4 3.06G
1024MB DDR4
ATI RAdeon 7500 (hopefully i'll be able to afford 9800 before H-day)
240Gig RAID 0
shitty terratec SBpro card

screen
chair
bucket

 

[Punzz]

ill just be upgrading to a 2400XP seeing as ive got a GF4 and DDR RAM already

 

[Dready]

p4 2.4 800hz,
saphire's radeon 9800 pro 256mg
1000mb cosair twinX dualchannel
sb live! 1.5
80gb WD 7200rpm ;o~

kinda nice no ;o? , i got all here except the radeon 9800pro
i get him in the september11 ;]