I am not prepared for the second coming of Jesus (aka, Half-Life 2)

[Krazy Ivan]

Originally posted by painball
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I cannot wait for HL2. I have a nice new PC put together:

Asus A7N8X mobo
AMD 2500+ (unlocked )

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Fixed your motherboard model and what do you mean by unlocked?

[painball]

Heh. I always mess that up. By unlocked I mean that AMD has started locking the 2500+'s, which makes them harder to OC. You cannot change the multiplier on the locked ones. I got lucky and caught an unlocked one.

[RoadDawg]

Originally posted by nippinout


Like I said, computer from the future.

People have video cards that have 4 times more memory than I have system memory. LOL

My old computer, which was used til I got one donated to me 3 or 4 weeks ago, was a 133mhz pentium 1. Now I didn't care til I looked deeply into the PS2/Xbox stats. Talk about a bummer.

[Rooster]

"Now, any more excuses? "

Its a proprietary hunk of crap. Do I need more?

[Alux]

Originally posted by Krazy Ivan
I just built my comp for around $500,

I bought for it:
Antec Case (the one that Alienware used for their first machines)
250gig Maxtor Drive
2700+ Amd
a7n8x e-deluxe Asus Motherboard
-Has Serial ATA, 6 channel sound, ddr 400 dual channel support, AGP 8x, and other coo stuff built in
Radeon 9600XT
2x 256 ddr 400 strips in the dual channel memory slots
400 watt Power Supply

I had:
100 gig hard drive
Cd Burner

I could prolly look into building another if you need. I can work up how much it would cost then email you.

Links on where you got such awesome deals?

[Krazy Ivan]

Can't link it cause I work for a computer building company. I got the deals through my boss' connections. I would have to go through him to grab more parts.

[ASDadam]

Not to Hijack, but Krazy, could you price me an comp, don't need a HD or any CD drives. Only the case, CPU, RAM and maybe a better Vid, i run a 5200 Ultra right now. Rather do an AMD.

[PyRo]

I would have just run through blue shift in about 80 minutes, but the damn guy wouldn't go through the transport.

[Krazy Ivan]

Duder, pm me with details on what you'd be looking for. Better not to cloud up the thread.

[Automaggin2]

Build your own

or

www.ibuypower.com

[Fred]

I've had nothing but problems with Emachines... great word processors, but try anything else and you're hosed.

Currently I swear by Sony's Vaio models... I have two set up as video editing suites and they rock, and play games very well.

I wish I could find a workstation like this one i have at school though... dual Xeon 1.6 ghz... gig of ram... 100gig hd... and video power to share...

I can be rendering on one processor, and play a game using resources from the other...

I will be avoiding HL2 like the plague... If i start I'll NEVER graduate this summer...

---Fred

[hockaloogey]

Half Life and Opposing Force ~ never bought the other ones...

i won't be able to play HL2 w/ this damned slow computer from hell... so STOP TALKING ABOUT IT!!!

[hockaloogey]

the end is stupid, you get to hear the guy i've been wasting bullets on the whole game jab for 5 minutes then you get a choice: join them or die... either way sucks. either hear it say you're hired or see a bunch of aliens surrounding you...

[PyRo]

Dell is the failsafe, good computers but overpriced.

[Sparq]

Originally posted by hockaloogey
the end is stupid, you get to hear the guy i've been wasting bullets on the whole game jab for 5 minutes then you get a choice: join them or die... either way sucks. either hear it say you're hired or see a bunch of aliens surrounding you...

Yes...you either work for G-Man, or he eliminates you. What's stupid about that? Seems to fit his whole 'insidious above the law black ops mysterious government guy' character perfectly. OpFor ends in a similar manner, but you get no choice. The thing is, it does reveal a war of some kind between government forces and the aliens of Xen. Blue shift was just bad...you escape with a few scientists, and that's it.

The thing I love about half-life is that they managed to take the standard, cliched 'alien invasion', 'science gone wrong', and 'government conspiracy' concepts and turn them into a game that didn't come across as particularly tired or corny.