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Re: Need help with PC purchase

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From: PSY-W ThrasherK
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 05:45
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Burleigh Hine <throttl...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I bought a Dell 733 mgz machine and it works great.  My brother bought a
> Hewlet packard with the same config, different brand
> motherboard/prosessor/video card, and mine I swear is twice as fast
playing
> games.

no freaking kidding einstein?

Gee, lets compare my friend's AMD Athlon 700 with a 32MB GF2 DDR and 128RAM
on an Abit mobo to someone Celeron 700, intel i810 integrated (shared) video
card and 64 RAM on some noname board.....

which one do YOU think will run better?

those components make ALL the difference.

>  I dont think it matters much what the brand of the machine is (as
> long as the warranty is real good,  and the parts insite are good), but it
> does matter what motherboard and video card it has in it.

yes.  you're coming across stupid, but yes.

>   If you are a
> real serious gamer, or want to be, you need a real kick arse video card
with
> 32 megs or more on it, perferably 64 megs.

32 MB is fine...  64 is STILL overkill.  (unless its a V5, then you're only
getting about 45 MB RAM)

>  ram and prosessor speeeds
> (sheldoncue help me if im wrong) dont matter too much playing  the new
> bitchen 3D games.

are you on freaking CRACK?????  RAM and CPU MAKE ALL the freaking
differ3ence in the world einstein!  when I upgraded my system to an AMD
TBird 800 @ 1GHz (i like OCing) and 128MB PC 133 RAM I got my 16MB TNT 1
video card (crap) to run games at 40-80 FPS @ 1024x768 thanks to the brute
force of the processor.

and if you think RAM makes no difference, compare a game running on 32 to 64
to 128.  You'll SEE the difference.

BTW:  did I mention you're smoking dope?

>  have fun and frag safe
> throttlejunkee


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