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Offline Hippo

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on: October 03, 2003, 05:51:42 pm
I bought Halo PC, yet my computer does not meet the specs on microsoft.com... It requires "733 MHz equivalent or higher processor" and  "32 MB T&L capable video card required"

I have 450MHz, and a 'NVIDIA RIVA TNT' video card... whatever that is... If i get the bare minimums video card so it just passes the T&L requirement, what should i expect so spend? Also, how easy is it to change proscessors to get at least 1 GHz, and how much will that run me? Any predictions?
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Offline diamondgeezer

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Reply #1 on: October 03, 2003, 06:06:24 pm
No offence but I'n not touching that system with a barge pole. Consider that you'll prolly be looking at a new motherboard to support a bigger CPU, and you're basically talking about a new computer (as far as the insides go)
 

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Reply #2 on: October 03, 2003, 06:10:28 pm
yeah, but that won't happen... my parents won't let me get a new computer till i go to college... the closest i'll be able to get is upgrades... the rest of the system is pretty good... 86Gigs hdd, 320Mb Ram, so it looks as if these are the only two things lacking compared to the rest anyway...
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Reply #3 on: October 03, 2003, 06:14:57 pm
New motherboard - Socket A - Athlon XP 2300 (or whatever they have in that range). Perhaps an upgrade to a Radeon 9600 or 9800 depending on price range?
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Reply #4 on: October 03, 2003, 06:22:50 pm
I was thinking a bit cheaper then Radeon, like the bare minimums... Even if I have to get them used...
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Offline Jonathan_S47

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Reply #5 on: October 03, 2003, 06:23:04 pm
If you search hard enough you should be able to find some old P3 733 or 750MHz processors. They should be really cheap by now. As for the video card, while the TNT2 does have some T&L functionality it is very old and slow. Anything Geforce and above will work perfectly fine. You can find some of the GeForce 3 and 4 cards really cheap now.
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Reply #6 on: October 03, 2003, 06:28:16 pm
Ebays lowest price for Geforce 3 is over $400... Im planning a trip to my local gateway o see what deals they can get me there, but they might not carry video cards...
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Offline Martinus

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Reply #7 on: October 03, 2003, 06:28:22 pm
[color=66ff00]Just get a new mobo and chip, build it into the old case and say nowt. :D
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Reply #8 on: October 03, 2003, 06:29:35 pm
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[color=66ff00]Just get a new mobo and chip, build it into the old case and say nowt. :D
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Yes, but im looking for what you think is an acceptable price for said things also...
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Reply #9 on: October 03, 2003, 06:32:40 pm
[color=66ff00]American or europe (well, specifically UK)?
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Reply #10 on: October 03, 2003, 06:34:39 pm
There's something really screwed up about Halo PC. I bought it. My comp is Celeron 1700, Nvidia Geforce 4 MX440 , 256 RAM etc, way above the required specs. and i can barely run Halo smooth when I have the graphics as low as theyll go in game.:mad:
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Reply #11 on: October 03, 2003, 06:45:21 pm
Americian $$s, and microsofts website says it needs at least pentium...
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Offline Jonathan_S47

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Reply #12 on: October 03, 2003, 07:05:56 pm
go to pricewatch.com they have a good listing of hardware that should work for you.
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Reply #13 on: October 03, 2003, 07:24:20 pm
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Ebays lowest price for Geforce 3 is over $400... Im planning a trip to my local gateway o see what deals they can get me there, but they might not carry video cards...


WTF? i found a GeforceFX 5200 at Sams club for only $80!!!!
And never buy stuff from Gateway... (unless its a brand new PC)

Shadow_jdct, its probably your ram.... are you running XP?
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Reply #14 on: October 03, 2003, 07:30:14 pm
Well, my parents did one smart thing... they bought a lifetime discount through gateway when we got our first pc, and we et 20% off everything more then 6 months old...
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Offline diamondgeezer

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Reply #15 on: October 03, 2003, 07:43:57 pm
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Ebays lowest price for Geforce 3 is over $400...  

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Reply #16 on: October 03, 2003, 07:46:14 pm
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Americian $$s, and microsofts website says it needs at least pentium...


"At least a Pentium" as in not a 386.  A Celeron is a less expensive chip in most cases, but a good one is faster than anything below a P4 (and some early P4's too).  It's a server processor isn't it?  Not quite as fast but with a bigger cache?  At any rate, that's not the problem.  Unless Halo is using Pentium-optimized code.  Just because it isn't branded "Pentium" doesn't make it inferior.  And I had HaloPC running just fine on my 3 year old system, though my graphics card screwed up anything that was supposed to look reflective (P4 1.4Ghz, 512 RAM)  I think Halo's pretty RAM intensive, so that's likely your problem.
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Reply #17 on: October 03, 2003, 07:59:49 pm
*smacks Hippo*

I TOLD you it wouldn't run it! But you went out and bought it anyway!

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Reply #18 on: October 03, 2003, 08:59:51 pm
::Giggles::

Halo REALLY struggles sometimes on my 2.1 XP with a GF4 Ti4200.

If you want to play it that badly it'd be cheaper for you to get an X-Box.
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Reply #19 on: October 03, 2003, 09:43:48 pm
I've got 256 MB of RAM and it still runs kind of choppy. I guess it must be really RAM intensive.
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