New PC

[Bazzlad]

Bought a New PC last night, as I'm moving into a new house on Saturday and fancied a nice network
Here's the specs:
OR what I can Remember:

AMD ATHLON 64 3000+
512 DDR ram
120 gb Hdd
Gforce FX 5600(?something like that) with onboard 128ddr ram
17" tft

£799

What do you think? Agent reckons I'll need a new graphics card to play doom 3 and half life 2 (that news came as a blow!)

[killgORE]

yeah.. a NEW card IF you fancy watching it with all the bells ringing and the whistles blowing. But the games should run well enough on that.

[nichomach]

[H]ardOCP have had DIII running on a 1.5GHz P4 with GF4 MX440 graphics:

As of this afternoon we were playing DOOM 3 on a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 box with a GeForce 4 MX440 video card and having a surprisingly good gaming experience. Even a subtle jump to an AMD 2500+ with a GeForce 3 video card that is two years old will deliver a solid gaming experience that will let you enjoy the game the way id Software designed it to be...Seriously, as we mentioned a few pages ago, we are seeing levels of IQ and framerate performance that we simply thought would not be possible out of hardware that we once guessed would not even work with DOOM 3.

HardOCP review

On that basis, I'd say "wait and see".

[steve threlfall]

A new card for sure if you want it to look like the pics on the box. You really could do with another 512 ram aswell- a gig is getting to be standard now.

[Bazzlad]

i have another 512, just didnt come with it
The main game I want is the online matrix game, im sure it'll cope with that

[Agent]

What do you think? Agent reckons I'll need a new graphics card to play doom 3 and half life 2 (that news came as a blow!)

Quote what i said Bazzlad

Your best bet is to try the game when its released and see how it runs on your current setup. It wont be too pretty on that card, but you should be able to acctually play them. If its too slow, or it doesnt look good enough, look at getting a new card.
That way it'll save you spending money that you may not need to, if your happy with the one you currently have

For the record, its a FX5200, not a 5600 too

[Bazzlad]

It's bloody close enough! I'm not a PC, I can't remember what I've said, especially last night (drunkish) where I walked home wearing the PC box. (Let's hope it doesn't need taking back!)

[steve threlfall]

An FX200 oh dear baz

I would start thinking about what new card to buy now

[Bazzlad]

FX 5 200
great buy a new pc, need a new card

[steve threlfall]

Yep makes things expensive