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Just registered - Hi There!!
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 11:08 pm
by E_T
Hey all, glad to be here.
Found this site from a link at REVIEWShq.com while looking at ECS KN1 reviews. This site looks kewl... so I registeered.
I live in Winter Park, FL, which is in Central Florida (Lightning Capitol of the North Hemisphere). I currently make Filters and Oscilators (mostly MilSpec & Class 3 Soldering) with a Company down here. Second Gen Native Floridian (a rareity,here).
I like to play the more "sedate" kind of games (TBS mostly, like Civ). I love reading SF, SluggyFreelance and SchlockMercenary.
I currently use a PII-450 rig with W98se, but looking to upgrade (piece by piece, only way affordible to me, currently), hence finding this site while making my selection.
E_T
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 11:58 pm
by Apoptosis
Hey I used to own a Pentium II 400MHz hehe Welcome to the forums and glad you registered. I'm sure you'll get more than enough advice here on how to get your own custom rig up and running!
The ECS KN1 motherboard offers good performance at a value price.
Also I didn't know that Central Florida was the "Lightning Capitol of the North Hemisphere" Why is that?
Welcome!
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:06 am
by -mogwai
welcome, dude
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 4:40 am
by infinitevalence
Welcome for sure. Im a Civ fan my self, just got Civ4 been playing it non stop more or less for 4-5 days O.O dont fret whith the old computer, it happens to all of us. The good news is we will help you get the most out of your $$, the bad news is that Civ4 requires a DirectX 9 video card, i would say no less than a 6200 or x600... but still thoes are all cheap right around $100. So any way just ask we will help you find what your looking for.
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 7:29 am
by Apoptosis
Actually there is a Geforce 6600GT over at Newegg for $100 After Rebate, which is a great card for even a better price
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 7:45 am
by bubba
Welcome
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 9:11 am
by sbohdan
Apoptosis wrote:Actually there is a Geforce 6600GT over at Newegg for $100 After Rebate, which is a great card for even a better price
the problem is a PII-450 has a 1xAGP so the 6600GT would as slow as an onboard video, not to mention 450Mhz is no support for such a card.
last week a friend of mine asked me to put in his PIII-633 a GF4 5200. I OC'd the CPU to 790Mhz, flashed the card to a 5500 and OC'd it. then ran 3dmark 2001. the score was: 2250 points
then I checked: the motherboard has a 1xAgp and really makes no difference what I do. motherboard, ram, CPU is just to small to support the 6600GT.
BTW the same card was flashd and OC'd in my rig and got 3856p. in 3dmark03!
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:16 pm
by kenc51
Be carefull putting an new GFX card into an old board....
AGP 4x & 8x cards are compatible......the board will switch voltages automatically
AGP 1x & 2x uses ALOT higher voltages and the SLOT MAY KILL a new card due to overvoliting.....
My old gigabyte board had a 850E chipset...it was AGP 4x...I could use an AGP 8x card @ 4x speeds......but there was a warning near the slot NOT to put an older spec card in there as it would kill them.....the same warning is on an old pentium board with AGP 2x......
sbohdan--> you might want to ask you friend if the card is runnig a bit hot
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 2:29 pm
by Apoptosis
well seeing how he got here looking at a motherboard review I took a wild guess and am thinking he is going to upgrade his board... hehe
Re: Just registered - Hi There!!
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:18 pm
by Zelig
E_T wrote:I like to play the more "sedate" kind of games (TBS mostly, like Civ). I love reading SF, SluggyFreelance and SchlockMercenary.
Sluggy rocks. I'm currently working my way through userfriendly, will have to take a look at those other ones you mentioned after I'm done with that.
Civ also rocks. I wasn't a big fan of civ3, and haven't tried civ4 yet, but I'm still an avid player of civ2. Currently playing a PBEM game of a WW2 scenario with some buds from my school.
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:02 pm
by pointreyes
infinitevalence wrote:Civ4 requires a DirectX 9 video card, i would say no less than a 6200 or x600... but still thoes are all cheap right around $100. So any way just ask we will help you find what your looking for.
The x600 should work. I have played Civ4 on my laptop which is using a x600M with the omega drivers. This past Sunday I play Civ4 on my dual-core Intel 830 system with an 256Meg X800 and the game felt exactly the same between the two systems.
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:11 am
by gvblake22
I've been anxious to try Civ4. My friend just got it and he is a huge Civilization fan, but his laptop is not powerful enough to run it! lol
So I'm still trying to let me "test" out his game for him
But yeah, welcome to the Legit Reviews forums E_T!!!
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:08 am
by R3N3G4D3
Civ4 is a great game, but it eats up more resources than a billionaire's wife. This is one of the very few games where you will actually notice a significant difference between 1 gig and 2 gigs of RAM. My Desktop barely handles it, and I've already learned the hard way not to trade maps with opponents. Anyway, welcome to the forums, and if you are planning to run Civ4, make sure to get lots of RAM (at least 1 GB) and a powerful videocard. People with Radeon 7800 cards and similar cards (which are popular in laptops) all have problems with background not rendering at all.