Computers

[Thermodyne]

What kinds of systems do you guys and gals play SE on? Tell us what you use, CPU type and speed, chip set, and ram? What OS do you run and did you build it or buy it?

[minipol]

Win Xp
512 MB RAM
Athlon 1 Ghz
GeForce Ti4200
Asus Mobo, VIA Chipset
Chose the pieces, computer shop people built it

I might try it on linux sometime. I heard that it works via Wine

[Arkcon]

Ho-Kay. I'm jumping in on this just so people can read it and say ... He's kidding, right?

Win Xp
384 MB RAM
Pentium III 733 mHz
20 gig WD
NVDIA RIVA 32 meg

... bought it 'bout 3 1/2 years ago. I can play SE4, I can browse the web, I can write letters.

And I don't care what flashy new game I'm missing out on.

[Ed Kolis]

You think yours is slow? Ask Captain Kwok about his old computer...

Actually, I came pretty close to Kwok's record... I've played SE4 on three machines, I'll go in reverse order so you can be astonished at how slow the first one was...

Current machine (laptop I bought for school about a year ago)
1.2 GHz Pentium III processor
512 MB RAM
512 (or maybe 256) KB Cache
40 GB HD
Windows XP Pro

Previous machine (cheap eMachines desktop system my dad bought a few months before I got my laptop, it's SOOO slow trying to run XP on it! )
1 GHz Celeron processor (but the Sandra benchmark utility rated it at 660 MHz... hmm, why would they put SpeedStep on a desktop machine? Or was it overclocked out of the box to make it look faster??? )
128 MB RAM
128 KB Cache
20 GB HD
Windows XP Home (and there's HOW much RAM? I literally have to wait 15 seconds for the START MENU to come up if I haven't opened it before! )

Way way old machine (that my brother and I bought but gave to our grandparents when my dad bought the other one)
466 MHz Celeron processor
32 MB RAM
4 (yes, that's 4) GB HD
Windows 98

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:

Way way old machine (that my brother and I bought but gave to our grandparents when my dad bought the other one)
466 MHz Celeron processor
32 MB RAM
4 (yes, that's 4) GB HD
Windows 98

I - well it's my friends - have one out in my garage identical to that. In every aspect as far as specs. I couldn't believe it when I took it home and started it up to find out how old and slow it really was. He wanted me to see if I can upgrade it; I told him I could but it would be alot better to just get a whole new computer for 3 or 4 hundred more then upgrading it.

But here are my specs:
Its a Dell Inspiron Laptop that I bought a couple years ago.
Win XP Home Edition
Pentium III 866 MHz
256 MB RAM
30 GB HD
16 MB nVIDIA GeForce2 Go
I bought it from the Dell website. My next computer will hopefully come later this summer or early fall.

[Fyron]

Up until Last summer, I was running SE4 on this machine:

333 MHz Pentium III
384 MBs SDRAM (always nice having more RAM than CPU clock cycles )
8 MB ATI Rage Pro
~1.5 GB Hard Drive space over 2 drives
Some random MB that I do not remember...
Windows 98 (2000 towards the end of its lifespan)

So don't feel so bad.

That computer was sort of scrapped for parts, later to be semi rebuilt, and it isn't currently in working order. Now, I have:

2.0 GHz Pentium IV
512 MB DDR or RD RAM (I forget which)
64 MB nVidia GeForce 4 MX 440
100 GB Hard Drive w/8 MB Cache
ASUS MB
Currently running XP Pro on it, was running 2000 until a few months back

Just a minor upgrade.

Both computers were put together by hand, by me.