I have seen the Athlon used in some nice systems. There is a nice
shop near here that has been custom building systems for about 20
years. I may check with them and see if they can cobble up something
at a good price. I don't want to build it myself. Had enough of that
back in the mid-80's. I think over the next year or so I will come up
with a servicable solution.
Have a great Holiday Season.
Barto Proudfoot
--- In EverQuest@y..., "Su" <suceress@k...> wrote:
> If you are looking for a new system, I recommend you go with an AMD
Athlon
> processor. I know they have had problems with EQ in the past but
they cost
> much less than pentiums. I used to be loyal to pentiums but even
though my
> mother has more RAM in her computer and a 1.7GHz P4, my system with
a 1.4GHz
> AMD (both have same OS and both are HPs) runs faster. It cost $119
for 256M
> of RAM for the P4. I'd have to ask my dad how much he payed for my
upcoming
> RAM, but for xmas he's getting me 1.2GHz of RAM. I also read some
articles
> on building new computers and Pentiums run hotter and require
special
> sockets and special RAM that all cost more than it costs for AMDs.
For a
> modem, you could try a V92 Zoom. I got one for about $21 (not
including
> shipping) online. But that's for phone line modem. Once you figure
out what
> you want, look up pricegrabber.com, epinions.com, pricewatch.com,
and
> cnet.com. You can compare them and see which one has the lowest
price and
> best review.
> luv,
> -Su
>
> > I bought my machine last year for Christmas. A gift for the
family.
> > It was a mid-range system at that time, though I did not know that
> > the 256k memory limit would make it low-end so quickly. I added a
3d
> > card at about six months, not knowing that the standard was moving
> > ahead so fast. With the knowledge I now have, I may have scraped
up a
> > bit more and bought higher end, but it was not then a good
economic
> > move.
> >
> > I will be adding enough memory in a few weeks to bring my system
up
> > to it's 256k max. I ordered sol in the summer, with the
expectation
> > that the 128k minimum would be in place when released. I found
that
> > my max would now be the new minimum.
> >
> > As is the system is nominally playable. With the new memory and
> > possibly a new graphics card (fortunately the cost of a gforce 2
has
> > dropped to an easily reachable level) the machine will serve. I
> > expect Sony/V will make improvements in the game to keep lower end
> > players viable for some time.
> >
> > Now I must plan to upgrade hardware and catch up, perhaps pull
ahead
> > of the curve a bit so I am not always catching up.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I am not able to scrape up the $4k bucks for a real
> > kick-ass system like I see in the magazines. I will probably see
what
> > a new tower with lots of memory, a gforce 3 and a good sized hard
> > drive will cost me, and begin saving in hopes of getting it online
> > before this system gets too old to play.
> >
> > For those of us on the lower end, we must hope Sony/V wants our
bucks
> > enough to keep us alive a bit longer.
> >
> > Barto Proudfoot
> >
> >
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> >
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