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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: Kintaro on 21 October 2005, 03:03
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All my friends have to say about this is "fuck me dead, and bury me pregnant"
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8706775351&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
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meh, sounds pretty solid. Decent processor, PSU.
Maybe should have got a sata drive to keep up with that processor but you can add that later. Whats the linux hardware support for that gfx card like?
The case second from the left is the best looking.
Hope you enjoy it. :thumbup:
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im sticking with my athlon 64 3400+, but im getting 2x200gb SATA drives in striped RAID, will evetually go up to 3 gig of ram, 650 watt psu, some nice water cooling and one hell of a grafx card.
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I havn't tried the Linux support out yet. I will probably install slackware later tonight. I am installing Ubuntu (god save me) on VMWare so I can do some stuff with my JFS formatted external hard disk.
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3 gig ram. lol what a waste .. unless you're running debian from a ram disk...
Water cooling? when you could have 650 watts buzzing around?
I've got a pretty average spec machine (athalonXP 2500+, 768mg ram) but if I chucked in a decent GFX card it would be sweet (currently a FX5200...:P).
Real pain in the ass how bus and ram speeds can't keep up with processors.
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Whats the linux hardware support for that gfx card like?
Oh jesus, that makes me remember that I could NEVER get the ATI drivers working in Linux, no matter how much I tried. :rolleyes:
That graphics card sucks. :thumbdwn:
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As long as nvidia support linux with decent drivers I'll only buy their cards.
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Oh jesus, that makes me remember that I could NEVER get the ATI drivers working in Linux, no matter how much I tried. :rolleyes:
That graphics card sucks. :thumbdwn:
Good to see that ATi's linux support is on-par with their windows driver support. ;)
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You'll be able to use it without 3d acceleration fine but I wouldn't bother with 3d accelerated games.
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if you want gamin theres always dual boot
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CPU: AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Barton (512k l2 cache)
RAM: 512MB DDR 400
HDA: 80GB ATA133 (2MB cache)
HDC: DVD+\-RW
HDD: CD-RW
VGA: NVidia GeForce 4 4000MX (64MB DDR memory)
OS: Debian linux 3.1 netinstall with kernel 2.6.13.4-solemnwarning
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well yeah.. who does use Linux for gaming?
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well yeah.. who does use Linux for gaming?
me?
UT2003 linux version
DAOC under cedega
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As long as nvidia support linux with decent drivers I'll only buy their cards.
They do, as far as I know.
One downside to buying Nvidia cards is that they tend to be a bit more expensive than their ATI counterparts, but that doesn't turn me away, as I'd rather run Linux with 3D Acceleration than trying to forever. :rolleyes:
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CPU: AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Barton (512k l2 cache)
RAM: 512MB DDR 400
HDA: 80GB ATA133 (2MB cache)
HDC: DVD+\-RW
HDD: CD-RW
VGA: NVidia GeForce 4 4000MX (64MB DDR memory)
OS: Debian linux 3.1 netinstall with kernel 2.6.13.4-solemnwarning
This is on-topic...how?
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Quake 4's on Linux too and i hear it runs faster than the Windows version by up to 20fps...
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This is on-topic...how?
My fucking awesome new computer[/b]
hmmmm, I wonder...
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hmmmm, I wonder...
It's about Kintaro's computer, not everybody's. And SW's specs aren't "fucking awesome" anyway. ;)
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It's about Kintaro's computer, not everybody's. And SW's specs aren't "fucking awesome" anyway. ;)
ssshh, you'll hurt his feelings
Yeah he could of spent another 5 grand but I reckon hes got good value for money.
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Quake 4's on Linux too and i hear it runs faster than the Windows version by up to 20fps...
too bad quake4 sucks though. :thumbdwn:
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I haven't played Quake since version one, has anyone else here played the origional, has it improved since?
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I haven't played Quake since version one, has anyone else here played the origional, has it improved since?
improved a lot since 1, 1 and 2 have a story, 3 is deathmatch/ctf/etc on different maps and was mainly for multiplayer, quake4 continues from where quake2 left off, yet has similar multiplayer to quake3.
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What shit about Quake 4 then?
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What shit about Quake 4 then?
I'd like to get Quake 4 Special Edition purely because it comes with Quake 2, which I haven't played in YEARS. :(
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I'd like to get Quake 4 Special Edition purely because it comes with Quake 2, which I haven't played in YEARS. :(
Why not download the GPL'd source code for Q2 and compile it?
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Why not download the GPL'd source code for Q2 and compile it?
I've looked for it, but I can't find any download links that actually WORK. :mad:
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I haven't played Quake since version one, has anyone else here played the origional, has it improved since?
Hard for me to answer, I as find Quake 1 flawless. It's totally brilliant. I wonder if there's any Linux binaries that actually WORK (ie, not compiled for libc5) out there.
Quake 2 was pretty good also, very different, but good in its own right. The mission-based gameplay was a bit disorganized, but it wins in all other areas.
Quake 3 was...bleh. Great for people who love multiplayer, I guess, but I never got much into that. UT2k4 is a much better multiplayer game than Q3 anyway, from personal experience, so I bet the then-current release (plain UT?) also beat it.
I've recently given up on true gaming, so I don't think I'll even play Q4. I might fire up Q1 every once in a while, but I don't go farther than that.
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I love the original Quake, too.
When I do get to play it, which is always only the demo, I won't stop playing it. :P
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Only the demo? Ouch, sucks for you. You're missing a lot of great stuff.
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The origional won't run on XP so I boot with FreeDOS and it works a treat.
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The origional won't run on XP so I boot with FreeDOS and it works a treat.
Weird, I can run it fine? :confused:
Only the demo? Ouch, sucks for you. You're missing a lot of great stuff.
I've played the full version many a time, and I love it. :D
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What version are you running? Is it SP3?
Perhapps it could be that the Windows video driver isn't fully DOS compatable?
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What version are you running? Is it SP3?
Perhapps it could be that the Windows video driver isn't fully DOS compatable?
That's odd, I can run it fine, I'm running Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4. :confused:
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I'm not runnign Windows 2000 I'm running Windows XP that's obviously why you can run Quake and I can't. If you read back I did say I was using XP. :rolleyes:
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I'm not runnign Windows 2000 I'm running Windows XP that's obviously why you can run Quake and I can't. If you read back I did say I was using XP. :rolleyes:
Yes, I know you are running XP, but I thought you meant the windows video driver isn't fully DOS compatible on 2000/XP.
Sorry, I was mistaken. :(
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The problem is probably nothing to do with video drivers and more to do with XP's inferior DOS emulation.
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The problem is probably nothing to do with video drivers and more to do with XP's inferior DOS emulation.
I have great difficulty playing DOS games natively as well, just not Quake 1. :(
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When you say you have problems playing games natively do you mean under plain old DOS like FreeDOS or MS-DOS booted from a boot disc or a FAT32 drive?
Because if it's under Windows NT/2000/XP it's not natvie but and emulated virtual machine.
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Good point, I wish I could get FreeDOS working. :(
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easiest thing to do would be to make a FAT32 partition, install all your games in there and use dos boot disk, change to that partition then run.
Or use the ultimate boot disk to boot to freedos if you've already installed it.