I don't get it...

[elfs]

So, is a Sempron 3100 (512 MB) plus a nVidia Fe5500/256MB supposed to be slower than an Athlon 2700 (512 MB) plus a nVidia TI4200/128MB?

This thing runs Quake 4 like crap!

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[velvet-wood.livejournal.com]

I don't sysadmin anymore (getting my edumacashion) but I do deal with a small number of people whom I otherwise like who expect me to make their game machines run fast enough (is there such a thing?),

Yes. They're available from Alienware.

*drool*

Preeeettttiees....

For the record, we're a multi-OS family,ranging from a linux box handling the network for security's sake to my uber-gaming windows machine. I loathe MS with every fiber of my being but... I'm a game slut, and I want to turn the graphics _ALLLLL_ the way up! So see, such folk do exist, I promise.

[rarkrarkrark.livejournal.com]

*chuckle*

Alienware is good and they have really pretty boxes, but they are well out of price range of my friends, at least the ones who think I'm a good game-box consultant. I think my primary advantage is that I work for hugs and hard cider. I have visual processing issues that make it hard for me to appreciate good graphics or play games with complex graphics (Escape from Castle Wolfenstein was a real challenge -- I mean, trying to figure out what all those shapes were supposed to represent, I kept shooting at wallhangings -- that the first and last FPS I ever played ;) ) so the more graphical things become, the less I like them. I do recognize that this is my personal wiring and not a universal issue. I use X entirely for graphics drivers for web browsers and to organize my terminal windows.

I do know very clued windows users/admins and gamers, but most of them would not consider me to be a very good game-box consultant. I can handle the hardware just fine, but I'm dependent on research skills to handle all but the most simple software issues. (Now, ask me to set up and run a large, high availability server farm running multiple unix-varients and I rock. Gaming just isn't my specialization.)

OTOH, so many windows problems are solved by the same magic incantation (scandisk,defrag yadda :) ) that I've threatened to train a parrot as my assistant. *grin*

Oh, and honestly my dread of letting XP or something in here is less technical and more due to licensing issues, which is something I have to research.