Dual Pentium 2.0GHz CPU
288GB HDD
4GB of RAM
GeForce 9600GT w/ 512MB GDDR3
Not too shabby. It's a pity that's my 8 (going on 9) year old son's PC, and with tonight's addition of the 9600GT (poor kid had been using the onboard GPU) his PC now kicks my PC's arse up the block and back.
I've got a dual-core Athlon 4200+ which clocks in at 2.2GHz. Yeah, 10% faster than my son's; huge difference there. But I've only got a 160GB HDD and half that RAM, and I suspect his RAM smokes mine for breakfast. I'm also scared to benchmark his PC in case my 8800GT dies of embarrassment...then again, that would give me an excuse to get a 9800GT ;)
Except my monitor is dying by degrees so my upgrade fund will have to go towards a new monitor rather than hardware. Speaking of monitors, my son has a 19" Widescreen LCD. I have a 19", too, but it's standard, not Widescreen. Yep, chalk up another victory to the (almost) 9-year old with the kick-arse PC :(
At least Bloodbowl and Diablo 3 are coming out later this year, so it's a good thing the boy has a beast of a PC to play them on. Maybe by then I'll have a 22" LCD TV instead of my 3/4 dead 19" monitor. My 40th birthday isn't too far away ;)
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i spent over 800 dollars on a video card a while back (8800GTX, like the instant it was released), and regretted it horribly. I'm not sure what I was thinking, like, at all.
For a while now, I've been shopping around on ebay for a second one to run them in SLI, and have come to the realization that I was the one person on the planet that bought that model. So instead, what do I do? Buy TWO of tne new(ish) 250GTs, and sling them together. I come to realize that a single 250 is about a 10% boost over an 8800gtx, but at least I have two. These two cards cost me about 300 total, where if I had been patient, I could have found an 8800gtx eventually for around 100 on ebay etc. So naturally I had to buy 6 gigs of ram, and then a quad core processor to make full use of the two cards, and then reinstall vista as x64 instead of x86.
The moral of the story: WoW still looks like WoW, and that's all i really play. Yes, I can actually crank the sliders all the way up now, and yes, the machine is now Diablo3 ready, but at what cost? "Way too much" is the answer to that suqestion.
I love my PC, and love doing crap like this, but in the end I only play WoW, and that game is old. Like me.
bleh
Ixo, did you try using WoW's Maximum Graphics Macro? The one that claims to crank most of the sliders past what you can do using the in-game menu? It doesn't make a huge difference in the cities, but when you get outside there are plants everywhere. If you're a herbalist it might not be such a good thing because you really have to look for the Herbs.
"I know there's a Herb here somewhere, but where???"
If you haven't done so already, you might want to check out the Maximum Graphics macro. You can find it on WoWInsider here.
Note that the "cure" for the Max Graphics Macro does not revert your graphics to their former settings, it turns everything off or down that can be turned off, or down.
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