[KillMeNow]

i would point outalso that dual board are no impeiment to gaming =)

and i did hear that the quake 3 engine can take advantage of dual processors but that might be a myth but jedi knight 2 based on quake 3 engine runs like and absolute dream

[wEvil]

Oh and one more thing, dont run winXP if you want rendering

performance nominally drops about 20% in all cases plus you may have problems getting license servers up and running without a million patches.

Stick with 2K until a few service packs later.

Or linux.

Whatevers' your poison .

[Ryx]

Seems I'm not the only one lookin' to upgrade

Anyway, I have decided against dual. I don't have a need for. I render stills mainly, anyway.

It's gonna be high end AMD, probably the Abit AT7 mobo, 1 Gb RAM and maybe another 80 Gb.

Article @ Tom's Hardware about dual cpu.
http://www4.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q1/0203131/index.html

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by Ryx

It's gonna be high end AMD, probably the Abit AT7 mobo, 1 Gb RAM and maybe another 80 Gb.
 

ANOTHER 80 Gb????

[wEvil]

It's only a lil' IDE drive for crying out loud

anyway...if you deal with noncompressed video NLA stuff you need the space.

[Redfang]

Originally posted by wEvil
(i dont mean Nvidia or ATI, either, since all their designs are just higher clocked or DDRed versions of the same fricking chip)

Yeah, Geforce 4 was quite much the Geforce 3. But Geforce 3 was something new. Also ATI R200 was new compared to R100. Also, I guess this year ATI comes up with something new (R300), and NVidia also, maybe.

[wEvil]

actually i was thinking of BitBoyz OY and their Rage3D as well as 3Dlabs "emma" chip.

Emma got creative excited enough to buy them, put it that way

[Kazashi]

Interesting dilemma. While extra memory is always good (except with Win9x :wink: ), if you decide to upgrade the rest of the system in future the RAM would most likely end up having to be replaced. And while a new video card would be a major upgrade compared to an 8MB card of any sort, if you end up going for a faster card like a GF3 or 4 then the CPU will end up being a bottleneck in your system. The plus side of this is that when you do upgrade in future the video card will be up to the task.

After reading all that confusion, I say get the burner

[LtNarol]

heh, yall are going to laugh at what i have:

550mhz AMD processor
16kb 3d Accelerator
128mb sdram
Packard Bell 14in monitor (6 years old)

on the other hand, i have:

20gig HDD
AT&T Cable (woohoo)

I think i'll end up getting a new motherboard and processor, then adding another 128mb of ram and pick up a better 3d accelerator sometime later.

EDIT: 1111 posts! woohoo!

[CP5670]

My computer is about a year old now but still serviceable. I might upgrade sometime in a few months to a faster processor, but I think my computer works okay for the stuff I currently do, although that may change when UT2k3 and U2 are released. I hardly do any 3D rendering, so I basically just need high fill-rates (games) and fast floating-point performance. (mathematica)

Yeah, Geforce 4 was quite much the Geforce 3. But Geforce 3 was something new.

It is said that every odd-numbered Geforce is a true innovation, while every even-numbered one is essentially a much faster version of the one before it.

16kb 3d Accelerator

I hope you're joking...

[Redfang]

Heh, a 16kb video card? Even I have better than that...
Yes, I know it's really 16mb

Originally posted by wEvil
actually i was thinking of BitBoyz OY and their Rage3D as well as 3Dlabs "emma" chip.

 
Um, Rage3D? Rage3D is just an ATI fansite.
 
Also, Bitboyz, of course might release something, but you will never know. They've been talking about releasing new chip for years.
 
3DLabs, well why not.
 
Also, Matrox might come with its "Parhelia" (or if it's going to be called that) soon.