BF2S Forums At last, A new Computer

-=|BW|=-Hollow_Moon wrote:

I was just going to buy a new AGP video card (A 7800GS), when spontaneously I purchased the following:

AMD X2 4800+
ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe PCI-Express Mainboard - ATX
DDR400 Memory - PC3200 (4x1024)
800GB (2x 400GB) Serial ATA Hard Drive with 16MB Buffer
SONY 16x Dual Layer DVD-Re-Writable +R/-R/RW
16x DVD-ROM Drive
512MB nVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX
Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS
19" ViewSonic VX924 TFT Flat Panel Monitor

At around £2250 it wasnt cheap, having two gfx cards would have bought it up to about £2600 which I couldnt afford. But at last a replacement for my S478 P4-3.06Gh on cheap board with Vanilla 6600 256mb

Now all I need to do is sell some internal organs to help pay for it :s

Last edited by Rofl_My_Waffle (2006-03-17 20:34:22)

Rofl_My_Waffle wrote:

you did some serious overkill on the RAM. 2gigs is good enough for any game + background applications. bf2 only uses 1.3 gig. You can save money on the RAM to put towards another gfx card.

Yes becaue I work on hig definition graphics apps & CG artwork

Do you really need 800gigs, you can probibly save money on that too for your gfx card or get 2 raptors instead of all that memory.

I use hard drive space very quickly, one of my gfx apps takes 35 gig on its own. Raptors are also very expensive & were not an option from the place I purchased the computer.

But anyway, nice system, im sure it will pwn in bf2 especially when you get 2 gfx cards.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Contrary to popular gamer opinion, a pair of Raptors in RAID0 doesn't really improve game performance, or speed up map loading by a significant margin. However, if you are going to do lots of transferring and compression, the RAID0 might help by a margin. Still, in some cases, it can negatively impact performance due to the innate overhead of using two drives for a single partition. In my case, I have two 74GB raptors. One is used for the OS and other dev apps, and the other is used for games. A large SATA drive on the side is used for storage.

And 2GB of memory is no longer overkill. Remember, aside from BF2, you're going to usually have other processes running in the background. And as games get more complex (i.e., UT2007), there is going to be more demand for memory dedicated to texture info storage.