List your Computer Specs - Now and Then

[Red_XIIII]

P4's will be good, as by the time Jk2 gets out it will have SSe2 support, as most games are incorparting it, any p4 that has software writting for sse2 will be faster then an athlon. Its Just like the transition for Non MMX machines to MMX takes time for software.

[DrIfTeR]

Now:
P2 550
256 ram
Cable
12gig hd
geforce 3 64 mb

When JKII Comes out:
P4 1.7 ghz
1gig ram
Cable
40.9 gig hd
Geforce 3 64 mb

[Finalnight]

JK-
K6-2 300 Mhz
128 MB RAM
Voodoo 2 8 MB

Now
K6-2 300 Mhz
128 MB RAM
TNT 2 32 MB

JKII (actually wil lhave this by July)
Dual 1.8 Ghz AMD Palminos
512 MB DDR-DRAM
Nvidia NV25 (GeForce 3 Ultra)

[ June 04, 2001: Message edited by: Finalnight ]
BTW, it will be built by me again like my old one.

[ June 04, 2001: Message edited by: Finalnight ]

[magnus]

You all got power machines.

I have to wright down my ones and zeroes on a piece of paper, send it through a digital translator, which will then send these digits in to my computer. When it comes out again I have to make some sense of it and do it all again.

That about how fast my computer is...

[SithTexasDeath]

What I had when JK1
came out:
Heheh here go
p2 400
128 megs
13 inch pREsarrio
8 meg Diamond Viper
8 gig hd

Currently:
P3 550
DVD CDR CDROM
128 megs sdram
8.gig HD
Gigabytebx2000
Hercules 3d prphet ultra 2
Geforce2ultra chipset
64ddr
17inch dell trinitron

Hope to Have
P4 1.5
1000 megs ddram
1.0 gig Hd
AsusMotherboard
G43 Ultra on a hercules Running dirctly to My brand new HDTV

[ June 04, 2001: Message edited by: Armand ]

[ June 04, 2001: Message edited by: Armand ]

[TheJackal_jk2]

At the moment:

CPU: P4 1400 MHz
RAM: 258 MB SDRAM
GFX: geForce2 Deluxe MX - 32MB AGP

When JK2 comes out:

... I wont upgrade untill I see a huge difference.

My last system was 450MHz. Notice the big difference? I don't do small jumps of system specs. Up here in Canada it costs too much.

[[HEL]Diablos]

Current:

Athlon Classic 700mhz
256mb sdram
20gigs
Geforce 1 DDR

Future(2-6months)
Nforce or Asus DDR mobo
Athlon 1.4ghz or Athlon4 1.7 ghz
256 pc2100 or 2700 DDR ram
80 gigs
Geforce 3 64mb DDR(Asus v8200 or Elsa)

And TheJackal, it does cost alot up here in Vancouver B.C

[ June 05, 2001: Message edited by: [HEL]Diablos ]

JK (dont laugh)
468 66mhz
400 Mb HD
32 Mb ram

Now

Athlon TB 800 Mhz
128 Mb ram
40 Gb

Then I only hope to have the last Geforce available

[ed_silvergun]

Originally posted by Red_XIIII:
<STRONG>P4's will be good, as by the time Jk2 gets out it will have SSe2 support, as most games are incorparting it, any p4 that has software writting for sse2 will be faster then an athlon. Its Just like the transition for Non MMX machines to MMX takes time for software.</STRONG>

The Quake III engine already has support for SSE2. Those were the very "processor optimizations" I was referring to earlier.

Originally posted by Armand:
<STRONG>What I had when JK1
came out:
Heheh here go
p2 400
128 megs
13 inch pREsarrio
8 meg Diamond Viper
8 gig hd</STRONG>

You had a P2 400 in October 1997?

[Swoosh]

Sorry digl...I laughed. It's ok, my pops is still using a 286 for some dos program he runs. I think I ran this back in the JK days

-200 MMX
-Sierra Screamin' 3D (Rendition Verte 1000) or Orchid Righteous 3D (The first Voodoo card)
-96 Mb RAM
-1 Gb HD
-Aureal Vortex sound card

Swoosh

[OnlyOneCanoli]

I built my new system today. First time I ever built one. Then I realized that the O/S I was going to install was Win2kPro upgrade. So now I'm pissed.

[Aeolus]

Fall of 1997 when JK first came out:
Pentiym 166 w/ MMX
S3 ViRGE DX 2 Meg PCI Graphics
Sound Blaster 16
64 Meg PC 66 Ram
IBM 2 GB 4800 RPM ATA33 HD

Fall of 1998:
AMD K6-2 450 Mhz
128 Meg Ram PC100
(I had serveral video cards with this system)
- ATi Expert 98 8 Meg PCI
- Voodoo3 3000 16 Meg AGP
- Creative Savage 4 32 Meg AGP
- Diamond Viper II 32 Meg AGP
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live
Maxtor 13 GB 5400 RPM ATA33 HD

Currently:
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 950 Mhz
256 Meg PC133 Ram (Viking)
Creative Annihilator Pro GeForce DDR 32 Meg AGP
Diamond MX300 Sound
Maxtor 30 GB 7200 RPM ATA 100 HD

Spring 2002
Athlon Thunderbird 1.33 Ghz
512 Meg PC 2100 DDR Ram
ATi Radeon 2 64 Meg DDR AGP (if it's out yet)
60 GB IBM GXP HD

Well, as you can see I don't always upgrade right when the new stuff comes out, I wait about half a year for it to fall in price. I think my current rig will run JK2 fine.

Dark Forces
486 DX (--> SX)
8MB RAM (--> 16)
4X CD-ROM

Jedi Knight
Pentium190 (--> P2 350)
32 MB RAM (--> 64)
Matrox Mystique 4MB Video Card (-->Mystique 8MB --> RivaTNT 16MB)

Current Rig (10 months old)
P3 933
256 MB RAM (PC133)
GeForce 2 GTS 32MB
SBLive! Plat
Cambridge DTT2500 Digital (5.1 Surround Sound)
22" iiYama Vision Master Pro 510 Monitor

Spring 2002 just before JK2 hits shelves
Fastest Processor on Market (2 ghz +)
1 gig RAM
Latest Nvidia 3D Card
80 gig Hard Drvie at least
Klipsch 4.1 Promedias or better
Whatever ever else I don't have to sell my hair for

[GonkH8er]

dammit.... i think i have one of the worst machines here.....


GRRRRR!

[Confed]

Hmm puter specs...
ATM(at the moment)

PII 266
160mb SDPC66Ram
Sblive Platinum 5.1
3m T1 Modem
Voodoo3 2000PCI(crap i know but hey so is the rest of the system)
6gig HD
HP CDRW+
Gravis Xterminator Digital Gamepad

The modem right now averages on DSLreports
3.5mb down 1mb up.. depending on what im connected to the fastest download at constant was 2 to 2.5mb per second fastest upload on ICQ was 160k a second i dont upload that much so i really havent pushed it.

By the Time JK2 comes out i hope to of built my system

P3 1gh (im a little werry on the p4s right now maybe by then they will have the kinks out)
512mb pc133 (no use getting RD since P3 only has 133 front end)
i have a kickass sound card and modem so no need to get a new one
I might just stay with a GeForce2 Ultra GeForce3 are still too expensive.
I spotted a case called the windtunnel4000 or some shiz on a website and it had 5nifty fans on it + the card fans i plan on putting in so it will stay nice and cool
as for Motherboard i have no idea im still getting basic parts
Harddrive a Maxtor 80gig will do nicely...
might just convert the old pc into a linux box for the sheer hell of it. anyway.. happy gaming laggers

[ed_silvergun]

I'm planning an upgrade in July, probably to:

900MHz Duron @ 1GHz
192Mb RAM
KT7A or GX7M motherboard
GeForce 2 MX

Not the fastest around, but a good budget system and a solid performer none-the-less. It should be able to handle Outcast without much trouble, although I doubt it will handle high detail all that well. Still, I might be able to afford a GeForce 3 by then.

[Red_XIIII]

people planing on building A P4 should wait till Intels Next Mb chipset which Supports DDR, DDR is way cheaper the Rdram
eg 100$ 256mb stick of ddr
256mb for rdram is 2 sticks (needs to be used in tandem) is 360$ about, And i don't recommend playing games with less then 384mb worth no matter what bandwidth your ram type gives, more ram is always better.

[Xzalibur]

When I got JK:
Pentium 150 @ 75 MHz
Diamond Stealth 2 with 4 mb (Rendition V2200 Superior image quality back then)
32 MB RAM, SB32, 1.7 GB HD, 8X CD-ROM

Now:
Computer 1 (really old cpu/gfx card):
450A @ 100 MHz
Asus TNT 16 mb
64 mb RAM, SB32, 10 GB HD
12X/40X DVD and 4X/2X/24X CD-RW

Computer 2 (a few months old):
TBird 1200
GeForce2 MX 32mb
256 mb RAM

And May-June 2002:
Palomino 1700 MHz (or faster - possibly over clocked)
Radeon 2 with TRUFORM

[ June 06, 2001: Message edited by: Xzalibur ]

[CaptainRAVE]

JK ROCKS! Well, it used to anyway!

[ed_silvergun]

Originally posted by Red_XIIII:
<STRONG>And i don't recommend playing games with less then 384mb worth no matter what bandwidth your ram type gives, more ram is always better. </STRONG>

Well, it depends on your OS. Different operating systems are optimised for different amounts of RAM. It also depends on the game/program.

RAM really obeys the law of diminishing returns. The more you buy, the less difference you notice. Realistically no current game will properly take advantage of anything above 256Mb.

[CaptainRAVE]

They sure wont.

[Sith Lord]

Now

Compaq AMD 1.1ghz Presario w/mmx
128mb ram
60 gig hard drive
NVIDIA TNT 2

and probably the same in 2002

oh and 56k

[CaptainRAVE]

Good old 1st posts. Arnt they fun!

[Niveous_JCS]

Jedi Knight
p133
16mb ram
i forgot the rest hehe

Now
p450
64 mb ram
voodoo 3 3000

Next week or 2
1.3 ghz tbird
256 ram
Hercules Prohpet GF3

Man i need that new comp

Yep, the 1 Gig of ram in my next system will largely be for bragging rights.

Even when I'm multitaskin and working in photoshop my current 256 does me fine in Win 98SE.

After you buy the fatest processor and videocard on the market you look for something else to max out or spice up... and since I generally don't want any more peripherals other than a burner and a dvd player, so I get more RAM.

Besides, even a quality stick of 256MB PC2400 DDR RAM is under 100 dollars right now. I can't see it getting much cheaper than this, hopefully a year from now RAM prices won't be too outlandish.

Krayt Tion get a nice fast hard drive

[Nyghtfall]

Here's my "rig":

PIII-450
198 MB SDRAM
Geforce 2 GTS 64 MB DDR

What I'll have (in my wildest dreams) by the time Jedi Outcast is released:

Area 51
P4 1.7Ghz
256MB RDRAM
GeForce 3 64MB DDR

[Espada]

old

486DX250
64megs
diamond stealth card
250meg HD

Today

P4 1.3g
128rambus
gf2 mx32
40g HD

Only thing i will prb. change is the card for GF3

Jolts, an 80 giger is already part of the plan. I'd rather go with size then go SCSI with a smaller a drive. And I'd rather not RAID a bunch of HDs together.

[skyler]

for Dark Forces: 486/33
16 meg ram
s/blaster 16
34oMEG(!) h/drive
noname vid

for Jedi Knight: pentium 120
48 megs ram
s/blaster pro
1 gig h/drive
voodoorush 3d accelerator

for Mysteries of
the Sith: k-6 300
96 megs ram
monstersound mx300
4 gig h/drive
16 meg voodoo banshee

now 1ghz ATHLON {THUNDERBIRD}
512 MEGS PC133 RAM
S/BLASTER LIVE! PLATINUM
PIONEER 16X DVD
2 75 GIG IBM H/DRIVE{RAID 0}
GEFORCE 3 64 MEG

JEDI OUTCAST: DUAL ATHLON{PALOMINO}~2GHZ
1 GIG DDR RAM PC2700
LATEST S/BLASTER CARD
FASTEST DVD-ROM AVAILABLE
GEFORCE 4
4 H/DRIVES IN RAID 0 ARRAY

WHY WORK IF YOU CANT HAVE YOUR TOYS? TOOK SECOND JOB TO SAVE FOR NEW RIG PLAN ON GOING ALL-OUT!

[Sarcastic Saint]

Hmmmm.....lets see

NOW:

466Mhz
128RAM
Geforce2 MX 32DDR

Then:
The same except maybe more RAM.