Good gaming comp?

[mrwonderful]

Hey i was wondering if this would be a good setup for gaming. Not nessesarily hardcore, but i would like to play half life 2 with decent results. I really need to know soon.

NIB Custom 3.0GHZ Pentium 4 LGGA 630 processor PC
- Black Enlight mid-tower case with Antec 500W Power supply.
- Intel D915PBBL motherboard (built-on LAN and audio.
- 3.0GHZ Pentium 4 LGGA 630 Processor.
- 2GB Kingston DDR2 533mhz memory.
- (2x) Western Digital 80GB SATA hard drive.
- ATi Radeon x300se 128MB PCI-express video card.
- SONY DVD-RW drive.
- 16x DVD-rom drive.
- 3.5" floppy drive.

2 80mm fans and it also comes with software backups of: Windows XP Pro, Office XP Pro, Symantec Anti-virus, Adobe Photo suite (photoshop, premiere, after effects, Illustrator). and a ghost image DVD-rom set in case you need to bring your system back to original configuration

The guy is looking for 500 shipped. Would that be a good deal, or should i pass it up?

 

[bulletproofcustoms]

Looks like a great deal...sounds like it has well over $1G in programs alone... not to mention it's a 3G P4... Id say go for it if not plzz share who is he ;-)

 

[Vitamin_J]

the graphics cars isn't gonna work well for games like HL2.

it's a tad on the slow side. and the memory is pretty low for modern games.

i'd say your best bet would be a Radeon x800xt. double the memory, 4 more pipelines, much much faster too.

 

[nd4spdbh]

dude thats a freakin great deal... the graphics card will be jsut fine...

not to steel the thread but

i have a 3.0 ghz 800mhz fsb 512kb chache socket 478 processor and it still is top of the line... pluss its a northwood core perfect for over clocking... lol i have had the thing up to 3.74 ghz @ 996 fsb :mrgreen: thats a 25% increase in mhz ... i also run a gforce fx 5200 256mb graphics card and i get a constant 85 fps in any game... my moms gfx card is a 128 and does 75 fps no prob.

he he hers some overclockin pics it was OK stable at that speed... my mobo wouldnt allow me to go any higher with the cpu voltage so ...

And heres a pic of my computer... its a little dusty... ¿¿¿¿DO YOU SEE ANY CD DRIVES????

WELL they are there !!!!!!

He he and yes that is probably the best deal you will ever EVER get on a computer that quality... pluss with the loads of chash u save if you dont like the gfx card go buy a good one...

 

[mrwonderful]

WEll thanks for the info. I think i am. I prolly use that card i get with it for a little while, see how i like it, then maybe upgrade a bit. I will probably only play mostly older games,so it should work, but we'll see how it works with half life.

 

[thefordmccord]

Yeah, ther vid card is a little slow. You would at least need somthing along the line of a 660GT.

I have a P4 2.8 prescott running at 3565mHz. I am also running a 6600GT video card. It will play just about anything that I want to play.

 

[Vitamin_J]

well since we're showing off our comps:

AMD Clawhammer 64-bit, 1mb L2 cache

Chaintech VNF3 - 250 mobo

1gb Kingston DDR400

Radeon x800 Pro ViVo (flashed to X800xt PE)

SB Audigy LS + Creative 5.1 speakers

2x Western Digital 80gb SE HDDs

40x CD-RW

52x CD/DVD-ROM

1.44 in. Floppy drive (for flashing teh bios)

The CPU and GPU were water-cooled, I ran two separate loops with two radiators, pumps, reservoirs. But i got tired of the extensive break-down to replace any part, and i got tired of checking for leaks, so now i'm back to air-cooling.

had some lights n stuff in it. but now i just have it laying on my desk open. i put the case in teh corner. origonally i did it to test a new motherboard, but i got lazy....

 

[nd4spdbh]

lol thats the prob with watter cooling.... WOW the ford overclockin a prescot i have heard they really dont like it as ur temp states runnin at 106 *f a little hot in my eyes for an intel... mine at 3 ghz never gets above 100 on a hot day but thats at half speed on all case fans. i could pop the thing up to 3.6 and blast all 6 case fans that are on the controer and it wouldnt get above 100 still...

nice comps everyone...AMD :???: no they are a good processor... i just have never liked the how hot they get... i have my counterstrike/webserver runnin on an amd athlon xp 2400 and it hovers around 110 *f with the cpu fan runnin at 7 volts... he he i wanted to get is soo quiet i can run my cpu and exaust fan at 4.8 volts and the psu fan down at 7 ... and i have the hard drives not touchin the case but on an old 1/4 in mouse pad squares in the corners so it soaks up the vibrations :mrgreen: it is pretty quiet but the hard drives still make some noise... lol the hds i have in my server were given to me... lol one OLD 7.85 gb and one 30... My friend gave me a comp with the 7.85gb hd and it had an 8mb ati vid card that had the price tag of $409.99 and a dial up card for $539.99 NO JOKE THATS HOW OLD IT IS... but the hd is still runnin strong


Hey theford what was the program that u have thats tellin u the temps and everything....

 

[thefordmccord]

Hey theford what was the program that u have thats tellin u the temps and everything....

That software comes with Abit motherboards.

 

[nd4spdbh]

ohh ok cus i use MBM5 and was wondering what other programs that were out there that did that...

 

[Vitamin_J]

i love my AMD. i ran a XP2200+ before it and loved that, and before that it was a T-bred 1.6ghz. every AMD i have runs perfect. outperforms Intels at the same speed. the new one's are givin' my 3200+ a run for it's money though