LOOKIT MAH RIG!

[TheWuag]

Yay!
It's summer and I'm at my grandparents' house for a month or so.
http://i44.tinypic.com/o512dg.jpg
That is my rig. Running Half-Life 1 on an 800x600 resolution. Getting 20 frames per second.
Master-Sword is my best friend again! (And Baldur's Gate.)

 

[CrazyMonkeyDude]

lol

 

[Red Cell]

Uhhhhhh right...

 

[Thothie]

Gateway is so l337.

I kinda liked that oldskool deluxe case actually - it runs far too warm for a gamer rig, but when I have to crack open one of those in an office, it always brings a tear of joy to my eye. So easy to work on. Has very nice simple sliding bays that even some of the fancy $300 cases lack. BIOS of that era for those models was lacking features, but, barring intent to overclock, nothing important is left out, and it has a nice no-nonsense arrangement.

Never understood why nearly every computer of that age has two CD-ROM drives. Most of the time it turns out it's because one doesn't work and they couldn't find the dust shield for the extra drive slot. The power sources on those don't age well, so I'd suggest disconnecting one to avoid taxing the PSU when it starts up.

 

[Netrogor]

My rig is a monster that eats your rig up and spits it out! RAWR!
CPU: Phenom II 940 (quad-core) @ 3.5GHz per core (have had it at 4.3GHz stable per core - now cooled by a TEC plate)
GPU: Radeon Sapphire 4870X2 (liquid cooled)
Memory: 8GB G.SKILL Unganged (unganged is better for gaming - so sayeth the Guru3D overclockers)
Operating System: Windows 7 (Vienna) Beta

This picture is a bit old (right this second the liquid cooling stuff is out, as I am cleaning it and redoing it so that a second radiator can be installed, and I will be using a T-Junction instead of the reservoir bay), but it gives you an idea of how bright my case is and the likes... the side fan is a 250mm fan. Now, I have a Hybrid TEC deal cooling my CPU ->
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103056

 

[Thothie]

Bet it still doesn't have the nifty slide&lock system the old gateway deluxe case has. Also probably a lot noisier. I can beat it though:

• Boots instantly!
• OS, never, ever crashes! (Barring catastrophic hardware failure)
• OS includes a fully functional programming language!
• Nearly 100% virus resistant!
• Absolutely silent cooling system! No fans! No Pumps!
• It's from Belgium, which is where chocolate comes from, so you know it's good.

 

[Jelly]

So what kind of games does it play?

A cool calculator though.

 

[Red Cell]

So what kind of games does it play?

Probably pong.

 

[Thothie]

Bedlam, Zork, HGTG, and thousands of other awsome text adventures! I don't care if you are too young to remember wtf I am talking about! Go North and Examine Room, mother f*ckers!

Also Rogue - best RPG evah.

 

[CrazyMonkeyDude]

Oooh, I remember playing rogue. Not for very long because I didn't have much of an attention span at that age, but I still played it!I still remember having games on floppies and using a text-only interface to load them up.

 

[Thraxis]

Oooh, I remember playing rogue. Not for very long because I didn't have much of an attention span at that age, but I still played it!I still remember having games on floppies and using a text-only interface to load them up.

QFT. Cept for the Rogue part.

First game for me was Wolfenstein followed by Doom.

Wonder what kind of folding points you could get on that old beast there Thoth. One a day maybe! (If you could even load the client)

 

[Thothie]

Client... Server...? We were beyond such things in 1984... We only needed mainframes and workstations!

Plus there was no need for Folding in 1984 - for we already had the cure for cancer... Then we realized the gobal economic damage that would be caused by the removal of what was, at the time, the #1 money making chronic disease. So we quickly burried the research and have, ever since, informed any groups moving towards that same cure that it's a dead end that has already been thoroughly researched. Might not have done that if we'd known what a money making hit AIDS was going to be - but hell, as long as we can keep a lid on the diabetes cure, there'll always be lots of money to be made off chronic illness!

But in all honesty, you'd likely have to make the Folding code in Pascal or Basic, in which case I suspect it would do considerably less than one point per week - and not much better, if you did it in machine language. The processors on those things ran at like 0.089Ghz.

On the other hand, they could do in 4k RAM and 16k of drive space what most computers require 256MB RAM and 4MB of drive space to do these days. With great power comes great irresponsibility.

 

[Echo717]

And the best feature by far on those old rigs, is the fact that you could stick a magnet on the screen and the screen would not bork

 

[DarkWasp]

Yay!
It's summer and I'm at my grandparents' house for a month or so.
http://i44.tinypic.com/o512dg.jpg
That is my rig. Running Half-Life 1 on an 800x600 resolution. Getting 20 frames per second.
Master-Sword is my best friend again! (And Baldur's Gate.)

If you get 20 FPS in MS:C then you're doing better than my HD 4830

OpenGL is evil

 

[Jelly]

Yay!
It's summer and I'm at my grandparents' house for a month or so.
http://i44.tinypic.com/o512dg.jpg
That is my rig. Running Half-Life 1 on an 800x600 resolution. Getting 20 frames per second.
Master-Sword is my best friend again! (And Baldur's Gate.)

If you get 20 FPS in MS:C then you're doing better than my HD 4830

OpenGL is evil

No, ATi is evil.

 

[Thraxis]

Can thank ATi side for that more than opengl.

9800GT (which is compareable to 4830 in just about every way shape and form) only does ms:c at 60 fps. The only place it ever dips is helena while looking at the shop part for some reason.

 

[Tentadrilus]

I thought the FPS cap for Valve games was only 60fps anyway. My rig does TF2 and L4D at 60fps and it never gets any higher and lower.

 

[Jelly]

That is, if you have V-sync enabled, and I believe it with V-sync it caps fps at the screens refresh-rate which is usually 60 Hz.