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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	What in your Main Machine (Non-3Dfx Card) 11.06.05 at 22:40:32 I'm just looking for a sampling of what you guys are running in your main machine. Like with me, in my main machine I have a ATI 9800 AIW 256 MB (non-Pro) with a Quantum3D 200SBi to compliment the Radeon. Now I'm thinking about the new X850 with the RADEON X850 CrossFire Edition 256MB for dual configuration
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Re: What in your Main Machine (Non-3Dfx Card)
Reply #1 - 11.06.05 at 23:14:46

The main machine which runs 24/7 and I do all my work is a P3-700/512MB ram with a V5-5500.

The gaming box in the corner is a P4 2.8C/1gig ram with a 9800pro clocked at/higher then XL speeds. My only regret on the 9800 is it has 128MB of ram instead of 256MB.

It causes the random hitch in Doom3 when entering a large area as textures are moved from main ram to video.

I have been thinking of updating too but frankly I see no new games that are of any interest and refuse to purchase HL2 due to dumb "internet required" game unlocking.

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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: What in your Main Machine (Non-3Dfx Card) Reply #2 - 11.06.05 at 23:15:56 Geforce 6800Ultra in my main rig... ... and soon G70 i think 8)
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Re: What in your Main Machine (Non-3Dfx Card)
Reply #3 - 11.06.05 at 23:26:24

Since I swap Video Cards very often in my main Rig for testing, I'll just take the fastest one I got :

Athlon64 3700+ So754
1024MB PC400 DDR
ATI Radeon 9800pro 128MB AGP

Since I play alot less than I used to, I see no reason to upgrade and buy a faster one.

What I don't like about modern Video Cards is their noise level (annoying) and (most important) their power consumption, therefor there'll be no SLI or Xfire for me (System is running 24/7, don't want to add anything that drives the energy bill too far up since it's already a bit high as it is Wink

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Re: What in your Main Machine (Non-3Dfx Card)
Reply #4 - 12.06.05 at 00:32:19

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Since I play alot less than I used to, I see no reason to upgrade and buy a faster one.

Yes, also a factor in my not upgrading yet.

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What I don't like about modern Video Cards is their noise level (annoying) and (most important) their power consumption

Hence the reason the seperate workday box which sees 99% of my computing time.

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BFG3dfx Ex Member	Re: What in your Main Machine (Non-3Dfx Card) Reply #5 - 12.06.05 at 03:13:12 i havent had a non 3dfx card is so long but right now im using a g3 and p4 2.0 w/ 512 rambus 800, im a amd guy mostly but i got this off ebay for my brother and am using while i do my 3dfx Mod box
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Re: What in your Main Machine (Non-3Dfx Card)
Reply #6 - 12.06.05 at 04:33:12

Radeon 9800 pro (256mb) with a 5500 pci Grin

I see no reason to be thinking of upgrading at the moment as I'm still very pleased with the performance of the 9800 @ 460 core\380 mem. I am running the newer games like Doom3, Half-life 2, The Chronicles of Ridd
*ck, Far Cry, UT 2004, etc. at 1152 x 864 with very high game settings and get great fps

Like gdonovan, my most used pc is still my 5500 system which has around 120 mb of my older favourite games on it Grin

My next pc will definately have some type of ati crossfire configuration as I have vowed to never own anything produced by Nvidia Wink

btw, The Chronicles of Ridd*ick is a most excellent game and I would highly recommend it to any FPS fan, IMHO after Half-life 2 it's been the most enjoyable game I've played in the last year or so Wink

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Re: What in your Main Machine (Non-3Dfx Card)
Reply #7 - 12.06.05 at 08:29:29

My main PC is a PIII running at 600MHz with 256MB of SDRAM memory and a basic CD reader. It's got a Voodoo4 4500 PCI, a Sound Blaster Audigy and a 9,5GB disk in it. Since I don't play "new" games, it's more than enough for games like Diablo I and II, Unreal, Quake II and III, HL and so on.

Then my old gaming station, a PII at 233MHz with 128MB SDRAM, 3,5GB disk. I'm looking for A V3 300 PCI to put in it and a SB AWE 64 Gold.

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Chosen_One Senior Member Offline Keeper of the BIOS-files... Posts: 499 Germany Gender:	Re: What in your Main Machine (Non-3Dfx Card) Reply #8 - 12.06.05 at 19:27:08 Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro (128MB) w/ ATI Silencer Rev.1 not high end but i do not need high end graphic cards in my main rig...i can spend money for things which are more useful but i'm thinking about a gf6...maybe a 6800gt when the g70 is released...
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: What in your Main Machine (Non-3Dfx Card) Reply #9 - 12.06.05 at 19:45:25 My main rig has... Radeon 9700Pro 128MB Voodoo 5500 64MB That's all folks!
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IG88 Full Member Offline Posts: 209 Australia Gender:	Re: What in your Main Machine (Non-3Dfx Card) Reply #10 - 13.06.05 at 07:36:58 main system AMD 3.2 xp Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 1024 ram powercolor radeon 9800 pro 128 ram 160 sata 80 ide does what i want it to do , don`t think doom 3 is worth buying another system for ! wish i got a 9800 xt 256 they`re all drying up on the market
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Re: What in your Main Machine (Non-3Dfx Card)
Reply #11 - 13.06.05 at 15:51:45

Main box AMD 2.8 OC'd to 3100, Gig ddr 3200 and ATI 9600 XT (256 meg) with XP SP2. I don't have Doom 3 or HL2, but so far the only two games that have slowed down my card is Farcry and MOH Pacific Assault (Pearl Harbor scene on the .50 cal- game slowed down as more and more shots were fired with more and more planes coming in - had to keep that saved game just so I can go back to it once in a while and get a good laugh). Other then that, seems to work just fine for me, don't see a reason to upgrade yet.

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R21vo Junior Member Offline Posts: 85 Latvia Gender:	Re: What in your Main Machine (Non-3Dfx Card) Reply #12 - 13.06.05 at 20:42:36 Chaintech GX21 Geforce4 Ti4200-8x 128mb ViVo
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LuxKiller65 God Member Offline Posts: 680 Luxembourg Gender:	Re: What in your Main Machine (Non-3Dfx Card) Reply #13 - 13.06.05 at 21:25:24 Nice to see I got the oldest end slowest PC!
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: What in your Main Machine (Non-3Dfx Card) Reply #14 - 14.06.05 at 12:17:52 Dual OpteronDP 244 MSI MS-9130 K8T Master2 FAR 1x TwinX 2x 512MB Corsair XMS Platinum PC3200ECC LLPT ASUS X800XT Platinum Edition 3DFX vOODOO4 4500 pci, THE 5500 pci IS TOO LONG lol HAHA SB Aydigy2 Platinum WinXP Pro SP2 USA.
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