What Makes the Best Gaming Machine?

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Stephen Austin

Hey All,

I was just wondering, I'm sure many of you have opinions on this. If money
wasn't a constraint - what would make the *Best* gaming machine. What would
you include?

Steve
 
LOL A king size bed and a blonde?

:o)

I'd get a lot of titles and the toys to go with them like wheels pedals
joystick game pad etc.

I'd also get one of those fast FSB mobos and HT processor. Next year's ATI
video card and so on. Windows Pro not Linux and so on. I like CRTs better
than thin monitors.

Some guys create cockpits for their auto and flight simulation games .. it's
not just the computer it also is the peripherals and environment.

Stephen

| Hey All,
|
| I was just wondering, I'm sure many of you have opinions on this. If money
| wasn't a constraint - what would make the *Best* gaming machine. What
would
| you include?
|
| Steve
|
|
|
 
Depends on what games you are playing. I'm a gamer, but of strategy games.
Some first-person shooters depend more on the graphics card than on the CPU.
Strat games may get a bigger boost from a faster CPU than the graphics card, as
the AI calculations are processor intensive.

Wayne
 
Get both!

Stephen

| Depends on what games you are playing. I'm a gamer, but of strategy
games.
| Some first-person shooters depend more on the graphics card than on the
CPU.
| Strat games may get a bigger boost from a faster CPU than the graphics
card, as
| the AI calculations are processor intensive.
|
| Wayne
 
Hey All,

I was just wondering, I'm sure many of you have opinions on this. If money
wasn't a constraint - what would make the *Best* gaming machine. What would
you include?
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Fast sdram, fast graphic card with a lot of ram, fast cpu.



Christopher
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Hey All,

I was just wondering, I'm sure many of you have opinions on this. If money
wasn't a constraint - what would make the *Best* gaming machine. What would
you include?
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" If money wasn't a constraint"

Since money is always a constraint, what's the point? :)

But OK: Some custombuilt 256 x cpu supercomputer, some custombuilt 8
speaker 2000W HiFi soundsystem, some custom 10 bit colorchannel
commissioned graphics array from Nvidia, feeding custom SuperHiRes 3D
headset with 2 overlayed (optically mixed) displays per eye (at
different focal planes). And custom commissioned versions of all the
games of course... :)

Seriously: The *best' game machine for anyone, - I would say that
would always be a fairly recent, modern piece of hardware?

That means it will have to be replaced fairly frequently. For most
peoples budgets that means AMD. Just look at the pricepoints of the
Barton 2500+ (90 bucks!) and Nvidia chipset mobos. And consider
running that at CAS 2 on dual channel DDR333...
Just how hot do you think that 8 times more expensive 3.2GHz800 P4 is
going to be in, ...say 8 months time?
....And until then, what games will run noticably better on it?

I'll freely admit that despite being an Intel person for most of my
life, I'm intentionally cheering a bit for AMD here. Both because they
deserve and need it, and because the world needs them. But I also
think - I'm being a bit 'mother' here I suppose - that you need to
understand budget and value issues. You will get much more for your
money a step down from the top, and a better life for it too.

Even if i would buy Intel, I'd much rather buy the 3.0GHz800. But even
that is more than 4 times as expensive. The difference is enough to
buy several graphics card upgrades. Don't I feel sick, everytime
someone burns money on a highend cpu and saves on the graphics card?!
ATI9000 on a 3GHz?! Don't people know anything? Abit FX5900/ATI9800pro
on an Athlon is 10 to 20 times faster&prettier and still costs less!

There's no good deal at all on any P4 now. I'd definitly stay away
from non800FSB. I'm badly burnt on cheap P4s. They're much, much
slower in reality (than on Intel benchmarks) particularly if you're in
a position to compare them to Athlons. If your budget aims you lower
than the 2.8GHz800HT at around $270-300, go AMD.

Sorry to be such a wining bore, but I'm in a bad mood. My newsservice
is seriously ****ed up right now. I get only few posts, and my own
doesn't seem to get through either, Sigh.


ancra
 
Sorry to be such a wining bore, but I'm in a bad mood. My newsservice
is seriously ****ed up right now. I get only few posts, and my own
doesn't seem to get through either, Sigh.
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This one made it through :)
 
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