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Hi everyone,
This isn't Quake releted but I could do with some helpful suggestions on what video card to buy in order for my kids to play Sims 3 on their computer.
At present they have have an old P4 with an Intel D845PEBT2 motherboard, 2Gb Ram, 5 x PCI + 1 x AGP 2x/4x, and Windows XP / Windows 2003 server (dual booted), and a fairly standard 19inch tft vga monitor.
The Sims 3 requirements seem to be as follows:
•2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
•1 GB RAM
•128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 (?)
•The latest version of DirectX 9.0c
•Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
•At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games
I've been building Office PC deployments, Servers, VM's, and networks for the best part of 20 years but strangely never really dipped my toe in the world of building gaming machines. As Quake has run on every system I've ever owned I've never really had the need, until now.
The kids have been driving me crazy trying to get this thing working and I'm willing to spend a little cash to try and do something nice for them, but can any graphics boffins or gaming hardware experts give me a few pointers on which "middle of the road " card I need?
Kind regards
Monty
...Waits patiently for Polarite, Peg and Foq...
This isn't Quake releted but I could do with some helpful suggestions on what video card to buy in order for my kids to play Sims 3 on their computer.
At present they have have an old P4 with an Intel D845PEBT2 motherboard, 2Gb Ram, 5 x PCI + 1 x AGP 2x/4x, and Windows XP / Windows 2003 server (dual booted), and a fairly standard 19inch tft vga monitor.
The Sims 3 requirements seem to be as follows:
•2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
•1 GB RAM
•128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 (?)
•The latest version of DirectX 9.0c
•Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
•At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games
I've been building Office PC deployments, Servers, VM's, and networks for the best part of 20 years but strangely never really dipped my toe in the world of building gaming machines. As Quake has run on every system I've ever owned I've never really had the need, until now.
The kids have been driving me crazy trying to get this thing working and I'm willing to spend a little cash to try and do something nice for them, but can any graphics boffins or gaming hardware experts give me a few pointers on which "middle of the road " card I need?
Kind regards
Monty
...Waits patiently for Polarite, Peg and Foq...
MSN: 
this....and the powersupply puts out enough wattage,which usually isn't the case 
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