Computer build for wife work, seem ok to you guys in the know

[ON_DUBS]

my CRT cost me 50 bucks by courier. but i saved 300 bucks on it itself so it didnt bother me.

CRT owns LCD anyday

[pauljh74]

The CRT might cost more to ship, but a 17" CRT is almost $200 cheaper than that 17" LCD

[foxtrot]

Originally Posted by aussiefalcon

at 16bit colour, low-res textures :

Most settings on high, some a medium
32 bit

A-hole lol

As if 8x agp makes that big of a difference

quote some random website

NVidia released word that ot will be the first graphics chip company to support the new AGP 8x interface from Intel. AGP 8x will run at 533 MHz, doubling the speed of the previous 266 MHz AGP 4x interface. Whether it's the speed that is actually doubled or just the data rate is unclear, but it seems likely that Intel would apply the same clock doubling technology it uses in other interfaces to AGP for higher throughput.

Quote another website

Codecreatures is mostly limited by the graphics card and, thus, we didn't expect much of a difference between different settings as PC2700 vs. PC3200, AGP X8 or AGP X4. Suffice it to say that our expectations did not let us down, that is we did find the same tiny performance drop with DDR400 compared to DDR333, changing the AGP transfer mode went completely unnoticed by the benchmark.

and another

UT2003 supposedly moves rather huge chunks of textures through the APG interface and if any of the current games will show a difference between AGP x 4 and AGP x 8, we figured, this would be the one. We ran the flyby-antalus benchmark at 1280 x 1024 x 32bpp with all details set to the maximum levels (Texture and Character Details=normal, World Detail=Highest, Physics Detail=high), everything else enabled.

After disregarding a minor performance hit for the DDR400 setting, UT2003 is the first benchmark to show a minute performance increment for AGP X8 but it still took 10 runs each and averaging to even see that one and only in PC2700 mode. Bottom line is, there is still hope that we will see some benefit some day, remember, it took about 2 years to see any difference of AGP X4 over AGP X2 and now there is very little doubt about the benefit of higher AGP transfer rates.

Anyway i think got the point across that I can play Fear and any other late release games fine, not on low res and low graphics modes either :