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>I'm sick of people getting worried about Doom III and HalfLife 2....
>these games are not entirely graphics dependent.
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>You also need a fast processor, a decent amount of memory, a nice EAX
>Surround sound supporting sound card, a large capacity hard drive and a
>fast internet connection.
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>If your processor is 2.5Ghz or lower, upgrade that first.
Wrong.
>If you have 512mb of ram or lower, upgrade that first.
Kinda depends, but for now 75% wrong.
>If you have an Intel setup that doesn't support hyperthreading, upgrade
>that first because these games support hyperthreading.
Way, way wrong.
>If you have a sound card that is unable to process DirectX9, EAX, or 32
>voices at a time... upgrade that.
that's personal preference
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>If you guys upgrade your graphics card and have a low performing system
>overall, don't expect to run these games in high quality.
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>Both support multiplayer, so if you're still on budget broadband or
>dialup, don't expect to play online.
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Depends on the "budget broadband" 128k (both way) and greater would
be fine.
Dialup=no good.
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>These games aren't the pinnacle of gaming either... they're entirely
>over-hyped.
How would you know. They aren't even out.
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I don't really like to correct people, but with this much
misinformation being spewed forth I felt it was needed.
You could put together a 2.5Ghz system with 512 megs
of ram and an OEM SB card and pair it with a 9800xt
and it would beat the pants off any 3.4Ghz w/HT system with
1 gig of memory and an ATI 9600.
Joe