Whoohooo... my parts are going to be delivered

[Cowl[CotC]]

No not the organs John Stossel advocated we place on the free market rather than the current system we crazy healthcare professionals have now ( http://mediamatters.org/items/200607140010 )...

I'm excited of course over the near arrival of my video card and motherboard from Newegg (best computer parts retailer IMO). I got myself an eVGA 7900GT KO video card and a EPoX EP-9NPA3 Ultra mobo. I'll probably put everything together by the weekend-- so I should be close to GTG for some BF2 real soon!!! I'm so far out of the loop and way behind the learning curve to know how to overclock anything so I will probably run stock settings- unless anyone here can spoonfeed me how I do it without jacking everything up.

I just can't wait to run Battlefield 2 with the settings on high instead of low/medium on my HDTV. And Prey, and HL2, ep1 and BF2142, and......

Cowl

[BD]

With the speed of things now a days, I wouldn't bother overclocking. Performance gain is minimal.

[Neophyte]

I'd agree with BD on that one. If your CPU is sufficient (3.0 Ghz or higher) and you have enough RAM (1G or better) then there isn't a need to OC, until many years from now. (Having a real sound card also helps.) Today's games run even tighter with the hardware than before. It may even cause problems with Doom 3 engine based games.

Unreal Engine 3 is the next big thing on the horizon. That will be your system first hurdle, and the true measurement to determine if you invested in the right hardware.

OC'ing is what you do when you want a $1,000 computer but only saved enough birthday cash to afford a $400 system.

[Cowl[CotC]]

thanks for the info!

I've never had much success with OC-ing anything in the past.

I have an AMD 3000+ CPU (the winchester core???) and 2 GB of some hefty RAM (Patriot brand or some such) so I should be good to go on all fronts then...

man I can't wait to turn up things to near max and see what these games actually can look like.

I actually did this to tide me over until probably mid-next year (after Vista comes out) when I get a "real" gaming rig-- prolly an Alienware as I'm way to frustrated with "building your own" as I just don't have the time to spend on troubleshooting and optimizing everything, etc. I just want an out of the box burner so I can plug in and game with all the bells and whistles...

Thanks for the info!!!
Cowl

[Akira]

I'm still playing these games on a P3 700 with 528MB RAM.

I did snag a "21" Compaq P1100 , FLAT TUBE, 2048X1536 .24mm Professional Sony Trinitron Monitor" last night for $5.00, and two parts computers, one being an 800Mhz, other a 1Ghz, $5.00 each.

I'll finally get into Ghz now.

Some day, I'll blow some big bucks on a high end machine.

[Neophyte]

I'm probably skiping Vista and going to SuSE. (Soo-suh)

If I'm going to learn another OS, it'll be Linux. I've spent enough money on MS licenses. But I'll keep my copy of Win XP as a dual-boot.

[Serpent]

I'm probably skiping Vista and going to SuSE. (Soo-suh)

If I'm going to learn another OS, it'll be Linux. I've spent enough money on MS licenses. But I'll keep my copy of Win XP as a dual-boot.

ive always been told it was pronounced soo-see... but why that? what about something more renowned like fedora or mandrake or centos (offshoots of redhat just like fedora)

[Neophyte]

I'm probably skiping Vista and going to SuSE. (Soo-suh)

If I'm going to learn another OS, it'll be Linux. I've spent enough money on MS licenses. But I'll keep my copy of Win XP as a dual-boot.

ive always been told it was pronounced soo-see... but why that? what about something more renowned like fedora or mandrake or centos (offshoots of redhat just like fedora)

Spreken zie deutsch?

It's a German company, and when Novell bought them they kept the name and its quirky pronunciation.

Why not Fedora or Ubuntu? Or some other distro? Novell has the best package for my needs. We own unlimited licenses and a're rolling out 220+ work stations in a few weeks. We're using eDirectory for authentication and ZENworks Linux for the desktop management. It's BSD based, and rock solid. Since I'm not the guru of Linux by any means, I'm just going to stick with what we have.

[Rico]

I just can't wait to run Battlefield 2 with the settings on high instead of low/medium on my HDTV. And Prey, and HL2, ep1 and BF2142, and......

Cowl

Sweet.

I played a little last night for the first time in 6 months. Boy did I suck. Worse than my normal suckage. I forgot to attack out of the sun. I forgot that good attackers attack out of the sun. I couldn't get my head around "never stop moving." All this stuff that we learned when we first played on-line FPS games.

I did, however, make two tank main-gun kills on choppers. Chopper pilots who forgot the "never stop moving" rule. And an Abrams can make some serious meat of an attack chopper just hanging there...



Other than that, I sucked in a royally sucky way.

[Cowl[CotC]]

my very best BF2 moment was while I was in a tank and the blackhawk helicopter (or whatever the one that could transport a ton of guys in the back) had landed to pick up a bunch of guys capturing a flag and I come zipping around the corner. They captured the flag and everyone just piled back into the copter. I fired my tank rocket as the copter was taking off and turning. The rocket goes right into the open side door and imp[acts inside the copter killing everyone in the back. The kill message deal just lights up Cowl killed blah blah. The pilot was still trying to get out of there but another rocket did it in and he bails out in the parachute, another rocket to his soon to be corpse finished him off. It was perhaps the luckiest series of shots I have EVER done. Just seeing all those kills all at once put a big smile on my face...

great stuff!
Can't wait for some CotC memories in BF2... will be much easier as I had just been doing solo stuff as no one played as a unit in the game.

Good times coming
Cheers
Cowl