PC Gaming System Recommendations ?

[Tekla 0]

I'm looking for a new monster PC. Rather than list specifications let's just say that I want something that can run Doom 3 without breaking a sweat, and can handle multi-meda stuff too. I know of Alienware and Demonite. Any suggestions or recommended manufacturers from from you lot ?

Lu-"let the beast beware"-cy
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[larsrulz 0]

Make your own. You can make a computer on-spec with Alienware for about half the cost. IMHO, buy a dell. They have sales once a month where their PCs are almost exactly what you would pay for the components separately, mainly because they can get the OS for about 1/10 the price you pay. I have a 2.8GHz, 1 GB RAM, and a 9800 video card and my computer can fold in the background without a bit of trouble. Doom 3 specs are only a problem for people with 2 year old computers. Anything over 2GHz will be fine as long as you have a nice video card.

I got a strong urge to fly, but I got no where to fly to. -PF

[CrazyIvan 0]

Well, systems like Alienware and such are EXPENSIVE and just because, now, you could ask a geeky friend to build you a custom extreme-monster and save some money.

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[adamjenner 0]

doom 3
you need....1.5GHz processor or faster
tons of ram (get about 500mb)
geforce 4 3d card or a radeon series video card (made with ATI technology)

so on and so forth.
just get a nice video card and a fast processor with some ram and things should go fine.
right now all i have is an AMD 1.6Ghz processor, Radeon 9200 video card, 512 ram, AvRack sound card and doom 3 runs perfectly on here.

[PhillyKev 0]

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tons of ram (get about 500mb)

These days, that's a starting point. 4GB is tons.

[CrazyIvan 0]

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tons of ram (get about 500mb)

These days, that's a starting point. 4GB is tons.

Yup, when I assemble systems, my MINIMUM is 1.5GB.

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[crwmike 0]

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doom 3
you need....1.5GHz processor or faster
tons of ram (get about 500mb)
geforce 4 3d card or a radeon series video card (made with ATI technology)

so on and so forth.
just get a nice video card and a fast processor with some ram and things should go fine.
right now all i have is an AMD 1.6Ghz processor, Radeon 9200 video card, 512 ram, AvRack sound card and doom 3 runs perfectly on here.

You don't need the latest and greatest for Doom3 to run smoothly.

Runs smoothly on my Athlon 2100 (1.7GHz), a gig of RAM ( 500MB is a moderate amount of RAM) and ATI Radeon 9800 XT.

Michael

[CrazyIvan 0]

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Doom 3

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!


Sorry...I had to.

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[MagicLou 0]

Athlon 64 (939 pin)

or Dual Opteron ( if cash is no problemo)

Radeon 9600 XT at least

Lou
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[Chivo 0]

I got an Alienware and it is an awesome machine. But like mentioned before, it is VERY expensive. A good alternative is to build it yourself (or find a friend that can).

As for what machine, depends on many things, but if you want to play doom3, make sure you get a good video card...

Since Nvidia is the card for Doom3, you can play it with a geforce 6600 and 6600gt (currently in pci express, will be agp later this month), or preferably with a geforce 6800 - but more expensive.

You can even do SLI with 2 - 6600's (pci) and get aprox the same performance as one 6800.

Anyway, you can check a few articles with more info... like The Official Doom3 HW Guide, and Tom's Hardware Guide: Matching Doom III With The Best Graphics Card, and then maybe How does CPU Speed Impact Graphics Performance?, and Battle 4: AMD vs. Intel.

Yeah, yeah, I've been doing a little research cuz I want to upgrade my system too. Hope this helps.

~Chivo