LOL, I´m so happy i haven´t bought a PC for 1700$

if a geforce 3 is overrated... what will the x box thing be like then? overrated!!?
probably.

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Personally,I am very excited about ATi\'s new offering Truform technoligy,it\'ll be powering the Radeon.2

Read about it here -->> http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1476

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Until some games are written with the GeForce3 and DirectX8 in mind, it will remain over-priced and over-rated.

I\'m sorry but I gotta disagree, PC\'s game wise are underated not over rated. They were the first to have online games and will always have the best. PC\'s will also always be light years ahead of consoles power wise, my  pc went out of date 3 years ago and power wise mune blows the ps2 out of the water.
BTW AMD processors rule.

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Originally posted by Ricco
I\'m sorry but I gotta disagree, PC\'s game wise are underated not over rated. They were the first to have online games and will always have the best. PC\'s will also always be light years ahead of consoles power wise, my  pc went out of date 3 years ago and power wise mune blows the ps2 out of the water.
BTW AMD processors rule.

Maybe so. But there is a few things you have to take into consideration.

Consoles do not have to deal with patches or hardware conflicts. Console gamers do not have the paitence to buy a game and then have to go and download a patch for it work.
 
The genres in the PC area seems to be limited. I am in no way saying PC gaming sucks--it doesn\'t.  But you just don\'t see Soul Calibur, Capcom VS SNK, Resident Evil: Code Veronica and other games on the PC, now do you? On the flip side, console gamers don\'t see games like Tribes 2 and such . But, with broadband access and HD add-ons, we will see these.

Another factor is cost. Using the GeForce3 as an example, it is priced at around $600 bucks. That is $600 dollars just for a video card and if your CPU is below the 1ghz mark, before you noticed a big difference. Also, as mentioned before, the games need to be wrote in DirecX8 to take full advantage of the GeForce3. Despite all this, there is no denying that the GeForce3 can produce some awesome graphics.


I see computer games and console games as two different \'relationships\'.

 The console game offers instant gradification and fun in the family room. It also offers the no hassle, instant play, along with a cheap price.  You get your friends over and have a few bouts of Tekken Tag Tourament, then you turn it off. It is just that. A gaming console. It does nothing else (unless you count PS2 DVD playback).

Computer games are much more complicated. The non-online games are real-time strat. games, that offer long term play. Then you have the choice to go online and meet new people, establish new "relationships" and in some games even form a "clan". Something, for the most part, that hasn\'t been achieved on the console area. Online gaming to the consoles is still too new, and this level of interaction won\'t be reached for quite awhile, in my humble opinion.

In the end, it can be summed up by one phrase.
"Different strokes, for different folk."

I was planning to buy GeForce 3 but it\'s so damn expensive!

I shall start to save money for it...

[ I\'ll try to survive a year with my Creative 3d Blaster GeForce 2 pro 64mt - and then I shall buy Geforce 3. Well, it must get a LITTLE cheaper to suit my wallet ]

Well, my computer ( we bought it ) is Athlon, 1,2Ghz.

So I hope Athlon is good ( I heard it surpassess Intel Pentium by far )

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Originally posted by Darth Joyda
I was planning to buy GeForce 3 but it\'s so damn expensive!

I shall start to save money for it...

[ I\'ll try to survive a year with my Creative 3d Blaster GeForce 2 pro 64mt - and then I shall buy Geforce 3. Well, it must get a LITTLE cheaper to suit my wallet ]

Well, my computer ( we bought it ) is Athlon, 1,2Ghz.

So I hope Athlon is good ( I heard it surpassess Intel Pentium by far )

I\'d wait 4-6 months, then the GeForce3 should be cheaper. Plus, games should be taking advantage of it by then.

Congrats on the new PC.

I think buying a PC for 1700$ is like throwing the money away. It is not worth anything 4 years later.
And there is still BOTTLENECKS on pc:s that makes game AI and other things not to good. The x-box does not have those problems (maybe AI) because it has only one memory.
If there were no big Bottlenecks on the PC a game like B&W should run at 80 fps 1200x1024, but it does not!
Why do all PC games look like ****!! High resolution and very few polygons.

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First of all.

A PC is not designed as a console,consoles play games that\'s their purpose.PC\'s play games as a secondary thing.I don\'t play alot of games,I browse the internet and I use alot of Photoshop and alot of other work.Games are not my nr.1 concern.That goes for most people out there (The keyword in there mostpeople)

PC\'s are designed to to everything needed from using word to playing games.

2nd of all

There are many things your friend could have been doing wrong.

• Did he have the VIA 4in1 drivers installed.?
• Was he using the drivers that came with his vid card or nVidia\'s Detonator drivers?
• If he was using the detonators,what version was he using.?
• Was he playing the game with full FSAA?

There is alot to consider with PC\'s.

Also I find Service Pack 2 for Win2k has bad side effects to my AMD/VIA/SBLIVE system

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What effects excactly?

I\'ve been thinking about installing Sp.2

Originally posted by EmperorRob
Also I find Service Pack 2 for Win2k has bad side effects to my AMD/VIA/SBLIVE system

I couldn\'t even get Win2K to run on my friend\'s AMD Athlon (650 mhz), and I tried for a long time.  This was before service pack 2.  You see what I mean about my frustration with AMDs?  Oh well, I guess I can keep blaming it on the motherboard/chipset.  Or maybeeee.... on the Wintel conspiracy????

Under standard install of Win2k on my system, my HD is not recognized as UDMA, which makes operation slow and noisy.  Installing the VIA 4-in-1 drivers fixes this problem.  However, installing Service Pack 2 for Win2k hangs on the install everytime.  After its "installation", SP 2 creates a "dead zone" upon startup where I can\'t execute any program for roughly 1-2 minutes

So I\'m still at SP 1

My system:

• Thunderbird 1.2Ghz 266fsb
• 256 DDR PC2100 RAM
• FIC AD11
• Maxtor Diamond+ 30G
• SBLive!5.1
• Radeon LE
• Linksys LNE100TX
• Toshiba 12x40x DVD-ROM
• Windows 2000 Professional

$1100

Originally posted by fastson
Is Tribes 2 gonna be online for PS2??

I wanna play it, but my PC is very old..
So Ill just wait for the PS2 version.  

I heard it is coming out for PS2.  Could be wrong though.
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Tribes 2 will come to the PS2. With Online!
But you cant play against PC players.