PC system specs.

[jonin]

I'm building a new computer and since WE7 is likely to be what taxes my system the most, I was wondering what people recomend for the best WE7 experience?

2000 or XP?
p4 or athlon64?
geforce4 or raedon?

 

[Daniel Jones]

The first two don't really make a difference but I would choose a Radeon (9600XT or 9800) over a GF4. I'm sure the Athlon64 is impressive but it wouldn't be a wise purchase right now since a new socket will be introduced in the near future. Socket 754 (the current Athlon64 platform) will be obsolete in no time at all.

 

[TristanAbbott7]

Re: PC system specs.

Originally posted by jonin
I'm building a new computer and since WE7 is likely to be what taxes my system the most, I was wondering what people recomend for the best WE7 experience?

2000 or XP?
p4 or athlon64?
geforce4 or raedon?

Well, 2000 is pretty much dead in the water for support patches related to improving graphical performance for games so I'd install XP.

Go for the P4 as Direct X is optimized for it.

Forget GeForce 4, you need at least an FX5200 and even that pretty much sucks. Nothing less than a Radeon 9200 either.

 

[BauerCTU]

Re: Re: PC system specs.

Originally posted by TristanAbbott7
Well, 2000 is pretty much dead in the water for support patches related to improving graphical performance for games so I'd install XP.

Go for the P4 as Direct X is optimized for it.

Forget GeForce 4, you need at least an FX5200 and even that pretty much sucks. Nothing less than a Radeon 9200 either.

id agree totally P4 and install WinXP. SP2 is out over summer as well

again im a biased ati person and would definatly reccomend and 9600XT or a 9800 series if you would wanna play the newer games coming out ! Nvidia = poo

 

[bigred3]

i have a windows xp

radeon 9600 128mb

384 ram

1.5ghz

and no lag what so ever even with other programs running(sometimes i forgot to turn off)

game = god like

 

[Daz]

go with AMD not intel!

they're cheaper, more reliable and can be faster

 

[PIPEÑO]

Re: Re: PC system specs.

Originally posted by TristanAbbott7
Well, 2000 is pretty much dead in the water for support patches related to improving graphical performance for games so I'd install XP.

Go for the P4 as Direct X is optimized for it.

Forget GeForce 4, you need at least an FX5200 and even that pretty much sucks. Nothing less than a Radeon 9200 either.

A GF4 TI is better than both of the cards you mentioned

 

[MadAZNFootballe]

Using a Radeon 9000 Pro and it works perfectly

 

[Daniel Jones]

Well, 2000 is pretty much dead in the water for support patches related to improving graphical performance for games so I'd install XP.

I think this would be more like a driver thing. Support for 2000 hasn't ended (just Win98SE)-not that I have a problem with XP.