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Okay. So I've finally ordered a new computer, and it's going to be shipping in next week, which I really can't wait for. It's got a 3.2GHZ Pentium 4, 1GB ram, Radeon 9600 XT 256MB video card, and a nice 200GB hard drive. With all that said...

Does anybody already own Far Cry? I heard that the game chomps up your computer unless it's really good and only then you can hit the 'VERY HIGH' settings. I'm probably going to buy a copy, since reviews have been great for it, and the game just looks and sounds fantastic.

Any suggestions?

I've not played it yet, but I hear the mod scene for that game is pretty awesome. Unlike the current stagnance of the UT2K4 mod scene. :P

ROFL! Thanks for cheering me up with this message.

Cheering you up? This is the oldest message ever.

And I have an X800 XL now. Joy.

I got 3 gig's of ram, and 600 gigs of HD space.

BTW, I like Jason's avitar... I think I might steal it

If you do then you're BANNED because I gave it to him for being a fucking spam robot.

DO YOU WANT TO BE A SPAM ROBOT

Cheesecake Avenger wrote:I got 3 gig's of ram, and 600 gigs of HD space.

wasted on you

iceburn

Cheesecake Avenger is probably lying, because honestly. Why would you for 3 Gigs of RAM? That's just stupid. 1 GB is either two sticks of 512 or one stick of 1024. Two, I could understand, two sticks of 1GB. But to have 3GB you'd need a minimum of three sticks. And since most RAM is now dual-channel it is utterly idiotic to have a non-even number of RAM sticks.

Fuck.

And seriously, even I don't need 600 GB of HD-space.

anyway since we're talking computer specs, my dell arrived today

i got the following for £557 (about $1000 or so? beats me):

the dimension 3100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

150gb hard drive (7200rpm)
512mb dual channel ddr 400mhz memory
pentium iv 2.8ghz processor
soundblaster sound card and some graphics card or other, i forget now
17" flatscreen monitor
combined printer/scanner/photocopier (plus printer cable, which is nice because normally one would cost £12, plus cartridges)
6 usb ports (no a: drive though, floppy disks are a thing of the past)
48x/32x dvd/cd-rom reader/rewriter
broadband support, which i am currently using
windows xd home edition (the only aspect between this computer and my little laptop in which there is no change)
microsoft works 7 (oxymoron lol)
3 year warranty

i think it is a thing of beauty. maybe not the greatest computer ever to walk the earth but it's excellent so far, and it will be better once i get my old files off my laptop. i will have to wait until the 512mb pen drive i bought from amazon (£18) arrives before i can do that though

so did i do well, or am i wrong in my excitement?

FSFunky wrote:And seriously, even I don't need 600 GB of HD-space.

I could find a use for it.

Zenith Nadir wrote:

Cheesecake Avenger wrote:I got 3 gig's of ram, and 600 gigs of HD space.

wasted on you

I have 640mb ram, 128mb Radeon 9600XT video card, 30, 80, and 300gb harddrives, 900mhz duron preventing me from running anything that came out after 1998 still

but how much did it cost

I have a Compaq Armada E500 with 256MB RAM, a 20GB HDD and a 600MHz Pentium III processor. I use Win2k on it. I've never needed anything more, really. I keep it optimized and very tidy, and I reformat every six months or so.

Granted, Photoshop is a little slow, and I won't be playing Civ4 anytime soon, but those are really the only problems I have with it. I really don't like how caught up people can get in the upgrade cycle. Hell, I'd probably be on Linux if I could download the images without my connection dying.