Odst?

Gimme 10 mins chris and ill post one for you.

Originally Posted by zsv650

i spent way over £400 to get a decent spec pc phenom 2 3.0ghz 4gb 1066mhz ram mobo which was £80 odd quid £150 ati 4870 gfx card i think it's outdated already though haha.

4870 isnt the newest on the market but there wont be a game out in the near future that will test it. The thing now is that the Consoles are holding back game evolution because companies now make the game so that a console can run it then just port it to PC...

Still a PC will look better due to higher res and better textures.

yeah i think their up to the 5 series arn't they i can't justify upgrading as i only just got this one it seem's to hold up well for most game's like stalker.

Thats the problem with pc, the moment you buy the latest bit of kit....its already out of date!
consoles seem to last abit longer while still looking good enough for me ( cheaper than a good pc too).

Back to odst
had it just over a week now and it is boring as every mission i can just run through.
I am however loving the halo3 multiplayer disc.

Originally Posted by BBadger

Back to odst
had it just over a week now and it is boring as every mission i can just run through.
I am however loving the halo3 multiplayer disc.

Have you completed the Game on Legendary status yet ?
have you got most of the Achievements for the game , that will keep you busy for a few days .

I have completed every Halo game on Legendary and it becomes quite a lot tougher on the later sections .

Chris;

CPU
£120 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 (3GHz)
£107 Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 (2.66Hz)

Motherboard
£70 ASUS P5Q SE PLUS

Memory
£50 Kingston 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 1066MHz
£30 Kingston 2gb Ddr2 1066mhz

Graphics Card
£120 ASUS GTX260 896MB (good price!)
£78 Zotac GTS250 512MB

PSU
£65 Coolermaster RealPower 520W (should be enough power tbh... GFX will need the two 6 pin PCI-e cables no matter what you go for out of the two I linked)

HDD
£31 Western Digital WD2500AAJS 250GB Hard Drive


£443 Higher Spec
£381 Lower Spec

All prices are Ebuyer. Could shop around at SCAN.com and some items maybe cheaper...

Originally Posted by zsv650

yeah i think their up to the 5 series arn't they i can't justify upgrading as i only just got this one it seem's to hold up well for most game's like stalker.

Thats it buy a computer and upgrade when you think you need to. I got 2 computers and one is 4 years old and it can still play any PC game on high settings and 1680x1050 resolution... Why upgrade?

My other one is about 2 years old and can do the same, but to be fair it is a little faster and gets better frame rates.

Originally Posted by BBadger

Thats the problem with pc, the moment you buy the latest bit of kit....its already out of date!
consoles seem to last abit longer while still looking good enough for me ( cheaper than a good pc too).

The difference is, PC's have the cutting edge tech, so its always evolving. If you want to stay with the cutting edge you need to pay money. (same with bikes for example... Would you upgrade from a 07 blade to a 08 for the tiny performance increase?) If you dont stay with the cutting edge and buy mid range stuff then you can do 95% of the same thing for a fraction of the cost.

Consoles... they are out of date before they even hit the market. The GFX in the XBOX are 3 generations old, and were the bottom end of that generation too. The PS3's is the same generation but not even as powerful as the Xbox 360!

As well, you need a PC/laptop to come on here (use the internet, word processing etc etc). My point is why not spend £200 more on the PC/laptop you kinda have to have and make it do everything? At least then you get cheaper games (usually by about £10!) and no Xbox live to put up with. (rip off prices, its obscene!)

I have both PC and Xbox 360 and use both but I still think the PC is the better format.

Right, ill let you all get back to your Halo talk.

Cheers.

not legendary but expert was tough.
most of them yup but tedious!

havent got around to fire fight yet...my friends are to cool for odst any good??

Gave up on pc games

apart from operation flashpoint and vietcong ...two greatest games of all time

the new flashpoint's out soon too.

[yorkie_chris]

Complete off topic, but does anyone know how the demand for computer performance compares for running FEA and CFD programs compared to games?

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Complete off topic, but does anyone know how the demand for computer performance compares for running FEA and CFD programs compared to games?

Im not 100% sure on what exactly they are, if they are anything like CAD then it will be more memory intensive in both Graphics memory and RAM memory and quite Graphics power intense with the models you use that need crunching (GFX cards are better than CPU's at that sort of thing!). CPU tends to get away with it on those. You have to load a lot of stuff for models etc. Either of the two spec's I got up there would be fine but obviously the more expensive would work better.