games system (oYo)

the system i will (hopefully) be getting for Christmas is an AMD Athlon XP 1600 1.4, 256 Mb DDR RAM,Geforce2 64 Mb,AC97 on-board sound and Windows XP Home Edition.
Anyway,how well (if at all), will the following games run on this system:
Operation Flashpoint
Return To Castle Wolfenstein
Alien Versus Predator2
Delta Force Land warrior (why do all novalogic games have annoying graphics engines >)

Thankyou gentlemen,
Merry Xmas

Yeah. It's one thing if you're listening to mp3's with the ac97, and another completely if it's 'in-game' music. That ac97 doesn't do generation very well, and the signal ratio sucks three holes sideways. Based on my ears, it's probably under 20dB.

If you use an MX, you'll have to keep the res. down to 800x600 just to get 30fps on all those games. And that's a dialed down 800x600. A GTS will let you crank up to 1024x768 and a gfx setting.

That 64meg doesn't do much for you because the gpu/bandwidth can't handle it in the first place.

The southbridge sound is totally software driven. The southbridge just does the DAC to the connectors. Yes, it chews up cycles even on a 1.4ghz processor. Even more playing games (Mp3's don't chew up all that much).

If you're looked for numbers, I'd estimate a SB live will eat up 80mhz of cycles playing Mp3's (on any athlon at 133FSB), and the ac97 probably chews up 150mhz.

My Live! Chews up less than 1% of my Ghz Tbird's cycles...

Lyrics. Wasted time between solos.

What?

Signal to noise ratio?

What?

(I'm confused now...)

No he didn't. He specifically said the signal ratio.



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