What Processor and video card do you use to game?

lenny45 · 05-05-2006, 09:54 PM

1-Barton 2500 OC'd to 2047 GHZ
2-Geforce 4200 T1 (128 memory)

Ok, i realize i have an ancient system i built 4 years ago. But i'm not a bad Unreal Tournament player. This past week i have been slaughtered by fast moving players i never heard of.(alias notwithstanding)

So i started asking peeps what they were using. Man, i'm getting reports of 3GHZ all the way to 3.5GHZ Processors. and 6800 to 7800 Video cards. (i'm not an ATI guy)

I guess that's the reason i am getting my ass kicked. When i play these guys, i go to switch a weapon and fire then forget it, I'm DEAD!!

It's too late. Anyway, just wondering what you guys are using....

Cogar · 05-05-2006, 11:38 PM

I am not an avid gamer, although I regularly play Counter-Strike: Source. I have a P4 3.2 E (Prescott) processor with an Asus P4C800E Deluxe motherboard. The video card is an MSI GeForce 6600 GT, which I believe is the weak link, even though it is about as good as you can do these days with an AGP card. (Yes, there are a few faster AGP cards, but the name of the game today is PCIe.)

It is probably just as well that you like NVIDIA-based cards, since Linux runs much better with video cards that use an NVIDIA GPU. Anyway, I hope that helps.

hisnumber666isback · 05-05-2006, 11:49 PM

Athlon XP 2600+(T-Bred) at ~2378MHz
768MB DDR (mixed, at 266MHz... i know this is ghetto but im poor)
PC CHIPS M848ALU mobo
C-Media CMI9739 5.1 onboard audio (i must say i am very impressed by it. the driver controls are much nicer than Audigy 2)
PNY FX5700 Personal Cinema Edition 128MB at 530/720(core/mem)
40GB ATA133 Quantum Fireball LP (average seek time 8.5ms)
200GB ATA133 WD2000 (average seek time 8.9ms)
2 x NEC ND-3540A CD-R: 48X, CD-RW: 32X, DVD+R: 16X, DVD+R DL: 8X, DVD+RW: 8X, DVD-R: 16X, DVD-R DL: 6X, DVD-RW: 6X (i must say that they are the only parts in my system that make me proud.)

its a 3 year old system... spent a total of about $340 on it.

uglydot · 05-06-2006, 02:36 AM

I game very little, run a 3800+ X2 and an ATi x800 XT PE(got a deal on it). Maybe when I have more time I will replace this card with a more Linux friendly model.

bubkus_jones · 05-06-2006, 07:04 PM

Athalon 64 3200+ with an Geforce 7900 GT 256MB

kak · 05-06-2006, 10:14 PM

Opteron 165 (1.8ghz 2x1mb L2 cache)
eVGA 7800gt pci-express
Handles Quake 4 nicely.

lenny45 · 05-07-2006, 12:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kak

Opteron 165 (1.8ghz 2x1mb L2 cache)
eVGA 7800gt pci-express
Handles Quake 4 nicely.

Quake 4? i would gladley trade HL2 for a copy of Quake4. To me, HL2 don't cut it as a DM map. any comers for a trade?

RHLinuxGUY · 05-07-2006, 02:46 AM

AMD Athlon XP 3000+
1024 of 3200 crucial and something else(tm) ram
MSI GeForce NX6600 256mb vr x8 agp ( The best I could find :< )
VIA Motherboard of some kind (I bought this computer from a friend of mine an have been adding to it since.)

I realized that any game under emulation runs much faster if you have a great processor not a great video card. (NOT including any celerons, durons, or semprons.. no matter how much faster one celeron is from another, it is still pathetic when it comes to emulated games.)