[Liberator]

So they're separating the "budget" parts from the mainstream parts?  Interesting, but stupid.  It would make more sense if they had 939 Semprons in the pipe.

[Grey Wolf]

It's sort of like Celeron, but with an actual difference between the parts. And I think a 939 Sempron is in the line somewhere, but not for a while yet.

[Liberator]

Hence why it would make sense to build a good Socket A system, bypass Socket 754, and upgrade to 939 when the parts get cheaper.

[Grey Wolf]

By "not for a while yet", I mean that it's not even on roadmaps yet.

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by willy_principal
to buy the system mentioned by Liberator...
...i would need US$283+importation costs= around...$900-$1000
working the sundays twelve hours here in the cyber i earn $30 per day...plus $10 my dad give me every saturday.
I have $120 stashed...

so....at this rate...when am i going to have enough money to buy everthing?

(1000-120)/(30*5+10) = 5.5 weeks.

So 2 months.

[brugger]

eVGA GeForce FX 5500 / 256MB DDR / AGP 8X / VGA / DVI / TV Out / Video Card

I found this for 65 bucks do you guys have any feeling towards this card

[Grey Wolf]

Decent. Performance should be right below the old GF4 Ti4200s.

[mitac]

If there's a cheaper 128MB version of that card, get it. 256MB is useless for entry-level GPUs.

[WMCoolmon]

I'm not sure that would be the case for fs2_open though; there are a crapload of (uncompressed!) images that are paged in to memory, along with vertex buffers and whatnot.

Something like an explosion anim could probably benefit greatly from having the textures right there in VRAM the whole time it was onscreen, without having to page it out due to space issues.

I haven't run any tests or see any research that backs it up though.