What are your rig specs?

W@tchtower*CFS* · 01-22-2009, 06:41 PM

Ah the old days! Wait that was last week! I started playing C4 on a Compaq with 1.4ghz AMD, 256mb with integrated 32mb Nvidia graphics and on dial up. Shortly after joining CFS I upgraded to DSL(still have, Verizon, not a power house but bulletproof and reliable). The only other thing I ever did to that machine was a 256 AMD Radion Graphics card Uncle Meat sent me. I used that machine up untill last year, when I got a "better" machine...except its not user friendly with C4 and doesnt like the macro settings on my Saitek Cyborg evo...the right combo of buttons pressed together makes the machine reboot

...very upsetting. It will kick me out of the game interm while playing, right to my desktop. Its a HP P4 2.8ghz 2gb ram nvidia 512 card. Plays everything else of, just doenst like my stick profile and is finiky with C4....if I hadnt given my old PC to my daughter I would still play C4 on it.

**RAB** · 01-22-2009, 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by W@tchtower*CFS*

It will kick me out of the game interm while playing, right to my desktop. Its a HP P4 2.8ghz

Is it a P4 with Hyper Threading. If so is the Hyper Threading option turned off in the BIOS. That's what I had to do with mine to get it to stop kicking me to the desktop.

**Rotor6** · 01-22-2009, 10:00 PM

I had that Hyperthreading issue with my XPS and the Intel P4, 3.2.
I never did get the game to run (full time) with HT on.. it would always dump..sooner or later.. My Kid has it now...

**GarretJax** · 01-23-2009, 10:52 AM

Yes sir that p4 with the HT on will boot you every time...switch her off and its good to go usually

**Charger** · 02-15-2009, 06:44 PM

Ok since RAB was so kind to point out the original thread the Benchmark results were on. I set my memory to dual channel and re-tested my system and came up with.

Straight out of the box, no over clocking...
Overall results 11041
CPU score was 4909

My present system specs are-
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 3.1GHz Socket AM2 89W Dual-Core Processor
MSI K9N SLI-F V.2 AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570LT ATX AMD
GeIL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel
EVGA 512-P3-N871-AR GeForce 9800 GTX+(G92) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI
Rosewill Stallion Series RD600N-2SB-SL-BK 600W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Active PFC Power Supply

Packard Bell 75MHz system...IN THE TRASH!

**RAB** · 02-16-2009, 10:15 AM

WOW Pretty big difference with the dual channel mode on the ram.

Well now that you made it to the 21st century. What games you going to play.

**Charger** · 02-16-2009, 08:58 PM

LOL...

Well I thought I'd play RainbowSix Vegas 2, FlightSimX, F.E.A.R., Battlefield 2142, Call Of Duty-World At War, Left4Dead, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and a few others I haven't installed in this yet...all the games I've been playing right along but now with maxed graphics and no lag to speak of.

**RAB** · 02-17-2009, 08:36 AM

LOL I don't have any of those.

I've been playing alot of Call of Duty 4. They have an awsome paintball mod for it. Here's some video I took of a game.
http://www.xfire.com/video/6f05b/
LOL Getting video like that is one thing I couldn't do before I rebuilt this PC. Would lag me out way to bad.

**Charger** · 02-19-2009, 01:58 AM

Yeah I got Call Of Duty World At War as a freebee with my 9800...Its an okay game but I would have liked COD4 instead. I just tried out F.E.A.R. 2 Demo and thinking about getting that since I have the first one and expansions, pretty sick game thats for sure.

**Bluetiereign** · 02-19-2009, 08:41 AM

I think I'll split this thread for this discussion and move the hyperthreading problems to the C4 forums. As time passes, it is going to hard to find 'rig specs' in this thread.

**GarretJax** · 02-24-2009, 11:09 AM

Well finally did my part to stimulate the economy

Rig specs as follows:

Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 Wolfdale 2.8GHz 3MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor
GIGABYTE GA-EP43-UD3L LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
EVGA 512-P3-N871-AR GeForce 9800 GTX(G92) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
OCZ OCZ700MXSP 700W ATX12V V2.2 / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
Western Digital Caviar RE WD2500YD 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

Looks pretty close to Chargers build...hope it benches out close to his!!

**Charger** · 02-24-2009, 08:35 PM

Awesome specs, if you don't get like mine or even better I'd say there was something wrong. Again I should have gone with the DDR2 1066 but I'm pretty happy with my build.

**GarretJax** · 02-25-2009, 10:00 AM

It busted my budget for about 50 bucks plus I went with a single vid board instead of the SLI to get the 1066.........

......but I've been about 2 years behind the eight ball my whole gaming life

.....its going to be great to check out a newer game and say "wow that looks cool, I think I'll try it!" lol..........matter of fact UBI has a new fighter sim due out in march called 'HAWX' a TOM CLANCY title that looks sweet.......some nice CO-OP options(nice for the wifey an I)....COD4 is finally an option now too!....YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!

**Bluetiereign** · 02-25-2009, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by GarretJax

.....its going to be great to check out a newer game and say "wow that looks cool, I think I'll try it!" lol.......

That is what I'm screaming... That is what upgrading is all about.

**Charger** · 02-25-2009, 11:27 PM

Yeah thats what I'm talkin'bout.

I've been playing games like RainbowSix Vegas and Ghost Recon and compaired to running them on this computer over my old computer they seem like differnt games all because I can now max out most of the settings and get the "Quality" and "Preformace" on both ends.