Tiggs - as your PC is a patriot I presume it is a slimline desktop. In other words the case isn't very big. Unless your PC is fairly new ie under 15mths old I wouldn't consider upgrading the old PC. Instead you replace it.

For about £420 you could get the following spec PC which would easily out-perform anything that you would do for £300 upgrade on your patriot PC.

CPU - Athlon 1Ghz 266FSB + Heatsink £72approx
Graphics Card - GeForce 2 MX200 32MB £40 approx
H/D - IBM Deskstar 40GB Hard Drive - £80 approx
Sound Card - SoundBlaster 4.1 Digital - £25 approx
CDROM - 50x Speed Drive - from £25
Memory - 256MB DDR 2100 RAM - £50 approx
Case - Midi Tower with 300W Power Supply - £40approx
Motherboard - DDR Board - £100 approx

Then again, if you just play CS and nothing else then purchase some more RAM - 128MB is about £25 and defrag your H/D and see if that cures your problem.

rr

 

might look at that cause at some point i may need to video edit my DV videos so i guess it may make sense to do a decent up grade now

pd- pc is a tower not desk top box

Tiggs

 

Defrag your harddrive for now, go and have a well done steak and it'll be half way through.

 

Think Mr "Shoot my team in the head for a laff" Runner has forgotten the dreaded VAT so his list is a sniff over £500.

 

Not if you got your own company or goto a computer fair Mr 'shoot me in foot who got what be deserved' deano

 

my plan then is to put more ram in and a better graphics card into my current pc then when i have time move it all to a new home build pc.

Tiggs

and defrag!

 

cos most of them never put icq on tiggs

 

 

Steve

 

u got no work to do either u lurker !

never noticed.....had to go back to laptop to do work !

and i not finished

worked most of today so i not gonna be counting this as a days holiday

 

trust you to jack my thread and do nothing but moan

hows the old triple commbo headset? worn out yet?

Tiggs

 

LMAO

He is using it to do his work with, slowly but surely

 

we taling triple or tripple ?

 

taling?

 

i now have a decent graphics card and 290 ish memory- still only get fps of 35? and it goes as low as 15?

Tiggs

 

yes taling ?

u not know it ?

devonian pantomime speak it is

 

What decent graphics card? What drivers for it?

 

GeForce 2

drivers? ones that came with it?

 

Go look on the Nvidia site for the generic Nvidia Detonator drivers. I found they worked better.

 

cool, i'll use them on my new set up- just ordered a AMD XP1700 so should be up and running friday

Tiggs

 

Hey peeps, quick question for ya

Currently I am running a 1.3ghz, 256 ram with 64 graphics cards. The graphics card don't work with the halflife engine so I currently get 60 fps, now I want between 70 and 100 fps.

I have an old voodoo 3000 16 meg graphics card, and I am thinking that if I bung this card in my comp insted of my 64meg one halflife should be able to use this graphics card. However will this improve my fps or will it be a watse of time?

 

Damaja

How did u manage to plug 64 graphics cards into the box?

What card is it?

Orb

 

LMAO ROTF

Sorry I meant a 64meg graphics card, it is a NVIDIA GF2 MX400

 

Damaja - stick with the GF2, its more powerful

whats problems are u getting?

 

Halflife says that card is not supported and I have to use OpenGL and not the 3dfx mini driver

 

OpenGL is fine, thats what I use for my card. IMHO you wouldn't see any benefit from using your voodoo3 with the 3dfx mini-driver to what u are running now. FPS is really down to the power of the card. So if you swaqp your GF2 to a voodoo3 you wuold be downgrading your performance, not increasing it.

You got the lastest drivers for your GF2, r u also running NVMAX util.

 

Ummm latest drivers yes, whats that max thing and where can I get it?

 

what fps is every one getting and on what spec?

im only on 45 with 290ram and all the latest drivers?

hopefully my 1700xp will help???

tiggs

 

"FPS is really down to the power of the card. So if you swaqp your GF2 to a voodoo3 you wuold be downgrading your performance, not increasing it."

so if im using a 32meg card geoforce2 in a suped up pc whats the best fps i can expect?

Tiggs

 

Getting 72fps online when running in 32bit 1024x768 with 4AA and 64Tap.... oh hum