So I am shopping for a new system mostly because I cannot manage my workflow realisticly on my computer at home. In looking at what I want to get I have realized just how BAD my system is. It has made me cuirious to know if anyone is in a worst position than me and who may have the best system. So here are the numbers....

G4 466 mgz 640 mb of ram with a whopping 16mb video card

Anyone got that beat.

Presently moving into a new server for home,

Will be a 3.0 ghz dual p4 with win 2003 server software

4 g ram

Raid 5 config with 3 160 g drives

256 mhz video card

2 dvd burners

1 ghz lan card

21 inch flat monitor

Will look at upgrading other 3 pcs in house after or maybe Santa can :P
Leopard

Last edited: Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 12:30:53 PM

Antec 500w SmartPower
Mach Speed V2MDMP
AMD Athlon XP 2600+ 1.9GHz
1GB DDR 333
320GB total disk space(120GB + 200GB)
C-Media 7.1 sound card
128mb nVidia GeForce FX 6600GT AGP video card

Drive Bays:

Top bay: NEC DVD & CD writer
2nd bay: LG DVD & CD reader
3rd bay: CoolerMaster Aerogate II fan control + temp sensor

Goodies:

Video card has a Blower exhaust fan card under it
3 case fans (2x blue LED Arctic Cooling 2L Pro & 1x Generic Triple LED)
2 bright blue Cold Cathode lights
Logisys blue LED lit case feet
Dell Keyboard
Logitech MX510 optical 800dpi mouse
Flexiglow HK xRaider LED mouse pad
Creative SBS 4.1 speakers

Envision 19 inch CRT

Belkin Wireless B networking

TT runs 120+ FPS.

Last edited: Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 9:51:36 AM

Someone out there make me feel better. I know theres a worse system than mine. Anyone........

Ya

My secondary PC:

Dell Mobo
PII 433mhz
418mb SDRAM
32mb Nvidia GeForce 256 AGP

Dell Precision 410 case (IMO THE best)

CD Reader
Floppy Drive

Yes TT runs fine 45 FPS.

Hp media center pc m1070m
520 intel pentium 4
512mb ram
160 gb harddrive
dvd+rw
tis coo

@ get some

I pinged you in our league game because I saw some strange things from your tank. When you pinged 90 I was guessing that you were a bit short on processor power. TT uses everything my Dual 1 Ghz G4 can give it. Try playing TT in window mode with the Activity monitor (or process monitor) running and see how much of your processor is being used by TT.

I went from a 897 Mhz single processor to the Dual 1 Ghz and I really noticed the difference. I can be running a CPU hog (TT) on one processor while the other keeps the operating system GUI responsive. Or, in the case of compressing video, I have 2 Ghz worth of processor to speed the process up.

You will notice the difference when the TT screen has 10 tanks at the goal. On the other hand a faster computer might result in more bullets getting through to you. :)

Good System:
Dual Pent4 3.4ghz extreme cpu's
1Gb of Ram
Nvidia 256k video
160GB hard drive Windows xp
140GB hard drive linux
2 dvd r+rw
case has about 6 fans running on it to keep this thing cooool
sound blaster with 8 speakers for sound.

Bad
old sony laptop
pent II 333ghz
10Gb hard drive
Can serve TT games though

Also have a one I have started to make myself
amd64 3000 cpu
32mb gforce 5200
512k of ram
5GB hard drive ( yup only 5gb)
Still need a lot of updating for this bad boy. Hopefully santa will be nice to me as well.

Thx bc...ive pretty much given up on the hopes of improving my gameplay on my current computer. Being a photographer and retoucher has necessitated me getting something with alot more muscle so im excited to see the improvements.

I always have pretty decent ping so I know my proc speed and video card are the big culprits for my lagtastic experience (especially on these new megalithic maps). I know others can see when a player is having connection issues but can someones weak system profile be visable by those with good systems in the play of such unfortunate souls? If so....how bad do I look? Lol.

@Leopard

You bastard! Where is my 21 inch flat screen!

The good one is an eMac- G4 with 1 MHz, 384 MB RAM and ATI Radeon 7500 (32 MB VRAM)

This thing is noticeably better than the laptop, which is

IBook G3 with 600 MHz, 384 MB RAM and ATY Rage M3 (8 MB VRAM, which leads to choppy video at times)

@ jet,

Ah yes reverend Jet, your prayers will be answered soon, let me know what website to set up the charitable donation to.

Your humble acolyte in the divine internet church of Jet

Last edited: Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 4:02:13 PM

Leopard send me the screen instead,I deserve and need it more

Last edited: Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 2:24:54 PM

LGM, you never told me you were a fellow emac'er! XD

Hmmmm lep and nuts are the biggest nerds....wouldnt have guessed :)

B

Hey bolo dude ,

Lol nerd no.overworked but properly compensated grin I dont have to buy any of this stuff

I do much work from home and do a lot of database developement besides control programming for control systems so I run a few computers to handle all the variations,

I used to have a life.... Now where did I put it.?.... Lol

^ Where are the fish?

Good info! I will include it in the TT for Dummies book for recommended computer gear.
I would like to suggest the minimum and the recommended system specs for Windows, Apple and Linux.
Can someone help?

Thanks!

Look at the absolute most you can afford, take a deep breath, and go one step further that that. XD

OOPs,

@Pai,

I'll help.

@Leopard

That's the "Church of the bloody fetus" thanks.

For Linux specs, I ran it for quite awhile on a 1Ghz P3 with a GF4 MX and it was fine. I think you could get by with a lot less than that though. I seem to remember Dash running for a long time with a P3 500 Mhz and more or less the same videocard. Using a lightweight window manager in Linux takes away a lot of overhead and leaves more for the game.

Now I've got a 3 Ghz P4 with a gig of RAM and a GF6800. I have a higher resolution and some anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering turned on, but the game plays basically the same. My brain just looks a lot prettier now as it's headed into the clouds.

I played for over a year on a P3 500 Mhz, 128MB memory and a GF4 MX with a 19inch crt. I then upgraded my personal computer to an athlon 2.2 Ghz and 1GB memory, Nvidia 5700, and 21inch LCD.
dashbash is a 2u rack server, two 2.8Ghz Intel Xeon processors, 4GB memory, no monitor, and an onboard 2D graphics card, there is no graphical user interface installed on it. It runs the slackware linux operating system.

For the longest time I ran TT on Windows 98se on a dual 733mhz PIII with 256mb of memory and a 32mb NVidia Riva TNT2 with a 15 inch CRT.

For linux I can run TT, but slowly, on a Celeron 633mhz, 128mb of memory, ATI Radeon 7000, using Fedora Core 3.

Here's my reccomended and minimum system specs for Windows.

Windows:

Minimum:
Win95/98/98SE/ME/2000/XP Home/XP Pro

Pentium II or AMD equivalent.
128MB of memory
200MB of availible disk space(Required for ModPacks and Expansion Pack)
OpenGL Compatible Video Card(NVidia Riva TNT2 or Radeon 7000)
DirectX compatible Soundcard

Reccomended:
98SE/2000/XP Pro

Pentium III or AMD Athlon.
512MB of memory
300MB of availible disk space(Required for ModPacks and Expansion Pack)
OpenGL Compatible Video Card(NVidia GeForce 4 or Radeon 9000)
DirectX compatible Soundcard

Last edited: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 11:10:48 AM

Hey I bet your Mac is only slightly better than my Macintosh Performa 8600/200 - Thrown it away now but It kicked marathons ass

Last edited: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 5:16:58 PM

Ah, dash!

So nice. No wonder your TS server was so good. It is missed.

Here's something I just read on Apple's website, Testimonials section.

Here's another:

Here's the all new iMac G5. Out since last week. Check out what's under this hood! http://www.apple.com/imac/
I'm thinking this model should support your buisness quite well, but if you want more, then check out the PowerMac G5 Dual or Quad: http://www.apple.com/powermac/ It too came out last week. It's the iMac's bigger brother. Were talking about Dual Processors, and "Liquid Cooled" just for a glimps. ;)

Enjoy some real "eye candy". XD

KC

Last edited: Saturday, October 29, 2005 at 5:34:58 PM

Im goin in for the G5 2.0 ghrz dual core with a gig of ram and the GF 6600 256mb card. Thats gotta make a difference. If not....then it really is just me. :(

@Get Some: I got 931 mhz, win xp....256mb ram...i think 4mb video memory....planning on getting a new comp once I graduate....laptop would be a great idea I think....my opinion, I would say go with win based pc( I know apple changed their processor to intel) but alot of programs out there arent compatible with them...its taugh to look for mac software...and great news is that LONGHORN is coming soon... Which I think will be bigger than xp....plus win is more user friendly.

Apollo13

Hey get some, I have heard that the 6600 "Plain Vanilla" card has had some problems.

My old mac only runs open source, with 80 mb hard disk space :P does that make you feel better? (I dont use the mac anymore except for experimenting with UNIX, which is always fun :) )

Did you guys really buy some of these badass systems just to play a $20 halfass game like TT?

@ racer
thx for the tip. Any specifics on what the problems are? Recommend a comprable replacement?

@ fatchick
no...im getting a new computer to handle my photography workload. Better play on thinktanks will just be bonus. B)

@ apollo
I actually think the mac os is much more user freindly...to each their own I guess. Heard some rumors rumbling that when mac does start to integrate the intel chip into their systems that they will be able to run both mac and pc format applications. That would be cool, although macs have pretty much any software apps available that pc does....just not as many variations. There are more games for pc but I have the only game I want. (awwwww.... 8o )

Apparently the 6600 plain card causes lockups some times and the blue screen.

I have a 6600GT which has had no problems so far. It has less video ram, but a better kind.

The one I have is very similar to this:

Same heatsink, different brand. All I can say is that you MUST get one with good cooling.

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet :)