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Fall of 1997 when JK first came out:

Pentiym 166 w/ MMX

S3 ViRGE DX 2 Meg PCI Graphics

Sound Blaster 16

64 Meg PC 66 Ram

IBM 2 GB 4800 RPM ATA33 HD

 

Fall of 1998:

AMD K6-2 450 Mhz

128 Meg Ram PC100

(I had serveral video cards with this system)

- ATi Expert 98 8 Meg PCI

- Voodoo3 3000 16 Meg AGP

- Creative Savage 4 32 Meg AGP

- Diamond Viper II 32 Meg AGP

Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live

Maxtor 13 GB 5400 RPM ATA33 HD

 

Currently:

AMD Athlon Thunderbird 950 Mhz

256 Meg PC133 Ram (Viking)

Creative Annihilator Pro GeForce DDR 32 Meg AGP

Diamond MX300 Sound

Maxtor 30 GB 7200 RPM ATA 100 HD

 

Spring 2002

Athlon Thunderbird 1.33 Ghz

512 Meg PC 2100 DDR Ram

ATi Radeon 2 64 Meg DDR AGP (if it's out yet)

60 GB IBM GXP HD

 

Well, as you can see I don't always upgrade right when the new stuff comes out, I wait about half a year for it to fall in price. I think my current rig will run JK2 fine.

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Dark Forces

486 DX (--> SX)

8MB RAM (--> 16)

4X CD-ROM

 

Jedi Knight

Pentium190 (--> P2 350)

32 MB RAM (--> 64)

Matrox Mystique 4MB Video Card (-->Mystique 8MB --> RivaTNT 16MB)

 

Current Rig (10 months old)

P3 933

256 MB RAM (PC133)

GeForce 2 GTS 32MB

SBLive! Plat

Cambridge DTT2500 Digital (5.1 Surround Sound)

22" iiYama Vision Master Pro 510 Monitor

 

Spring 2002 just before JK2 hits shelves

Fastest Processor on Market (2 ghz +)

1 gig RAM

Latest Nvidia 3D Card

80 gig Hard Drvie at least

Klipsch 4.1 Promedias or better

Whatever ever else I don't have to sell my hair for

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Hmm puter specs...

ATM(at the moment)

 

PII 266

160mb SDPC66Ram

Sblive Platinum 5.1

3m T1 Modem

Voodoo3 2000PCI(crap i know but hey so is the rest of the system)

6gig HD

HP CDRW+

Gravis Xterminator Digital Gamepad

 

The modem right now averages on DSLreports

3.5mb down 1mb up.. depending on what im connected to the fastest download at constant was 2 to 2.5mb per second fastest upload on ICQ was 160k a second i dont upload that much so i really havent pushed it.

 

By the Time JK2 comes out i hope to of built my system

 

P3 1gh (im a little werry on the p4s right now maybe by then they will have the kinks out)

512mb pc133 (no use getting RD since P3 only has 133 front end)

i have a kickass sound card and modem so no need to get a new one

I might just stay with a GeForce2 Ultra GeForce3 are still too expensive.

I spotted a case called the windtunnel4000 or some shiz on a website and it had 5nifty fans on it + the card fans i plan on putting in so it will stay nice and cool

as for Motherboard i have no idea im still getting basic parts

Harddrive a Maxtor 80gig will do nicely...

might just convert the old pc into a linux box for the sheer hell of it. anyway.. happy gaming laggers

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I'm planning an upgrade in July, probably to:

 

900MHz Duron @ 1GHz

192Mb RAM

KT7A or GX7M motherboard

GeForce 2 MX

 

Not the fastest around, but a good budget system and a solid performer none-the-less. It should be able to handle Outcast without much trouble, although I doubt it will handle high detail all that well. Still, I might be able to afford a GeForce 3 by then. ;)

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people planing on building A P4 should wait till Intels Next Mb chipset which Supports DDR, DDR is way cheaper the Rdram

eg 100$ 256mb stick of ddr

256mb for rdram is 2 sticks (needs to be used in tandem) is 360$ about, And i don't recommend playing games with less then 384mb worth no matter what bandwidth your ram type gives, more ram is always better. :D

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When I got JK:

Pentium 150 @ 75 MHz

Diamond Stealth 2 with 4 mb (Rendition V2200 Superior image quality back then)

32 MB RAM, SB32, 1.7 GB HD, 8X CD-ROM

 

Now:

Computer 1 (really old cpu/gfx card):

450A @ 100 MHz

Asus TNT 16 mb

64 mb RAM, SB32, 10 GB HD

12X/40X DVD and 4X/2X/24X CD-RW

 

Computer 2 (a few months old):

TBird 1200

GeForce2 MX 32mb

256 mb RAM

 

And May-June 2002:

Palomino 1700 MHz (or faster - possibly over clocked)

Radeon 2 with TRUFORM

 

[ June 06, 2001: Message edited by: Xzalibur ]

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Originally posted by Red_XIIII:

<STRONG>And i don't recommend playing games with less then 384mb worth no matter what bandwidth your ram type gives, more ram is always better. :D</STRONG>

 

Well, it depends on your OS. Different operating systems are optimised for different amounts of RAM. It also depends on the game/program.

 

RAM really obeys the law of diminishing returns. The more you buy, the less difference you notice. Realistically no current game will properly take advantage of anything above 256Mb.

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Yep, the 1 Gig of ram in my next system will largely be for bragging rights.

 

Even when I'm multitaskin and working in photoshop my current 256 does me fine in Win 98SE.

 

After you buy the fatest processor and videocard on the market you look for something else to max out or spice up... and since I generally don't want any more peripherals other than a burner and a dvd player, so I get more RAM.

 

Besides, even a quality stick of 256MB PC2400 DDR RAM is under 100 dollars right now. I can't see it getting much cheaper than this, hopefully a year from now RAM prices won't be too outlandish.

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Jolts, an 80 giger is already part of the plan. I'd rather go with size then go SCSI with a smaller a drive. And I'd rather not RAID a bunch of HDs together.

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for Dark Forces: 486/33

16 meg ram

s/blaster 16

34oMEG(!) h/drive

noname vid

 

for Jedi Knight: pentium 120

48 megs ram

s/blaster pro

1 gig h/drive

voodoorush 3d accelerator

 

for Mysteries of

the Sith: k-6 300

96 megs ram

monstersound mx300

4 gig h/drive

16 meg voodoo banshee

 

now 1ghz ATHLON {THUNDERBIRD}

512 MEGS PC133 RAM

S/BLASTER LIVE! PLATINUM

PIONEER 16X DVD

2 75 GIG IBM H/DRIVE{RAID 0}

GEFORCE 3 64 MEG

 

JEDI OUTCAST: DUAL ATHLON{PALOMINO}~2GHZ

1 GIG DDR RAM PC2700

LATEST S/BLASTER CARD

FASTEST DVD-ROM AVAILABLE

GEFORCE 4

4 H/DRIVES IN RAID 0 ARRAY

 

WHY WORK IF YOU CANT HAVE YOUR TOYS? TOOK SECOND JOB TO SAVE FOR NEW RIG PLAN ON GOING ALL-OUT!

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  • 13 years later...

Will my computer work for this game? I use it to make music, & it produces some really good sounding Alternative Hip Hop beats & renders recorded vocals real well.

Here are the specs:

8GB DDR3 Ram(2x4GB Ram Sticks),

Intel i7 Core Quad-Core clocked at 2.93Ghz,

DVD Reader & Burner,

THX TruStudio PC sound,

1.5 TB Hard Drive,

ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB.

 

Will this work?

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