What beasts are you cowboys riding?

o_3xternal · 02-03-2005, 04:58 AM

Just wondering what machines the development team uses in thier work?
Are we nVidiots or Retardeon users? AMD or Intels etc....

If you are using an Dell, Compaq, or, at the worst, an HP, please don't admit it...

o_eat · 02-03-2005, 05:02 AM

AMD A64 Winchester 3000+
1GB GEiL Value RAM
AV8 3rd Eye mobo (v good try it out)
Abit A400 6400 nu (nVidia)

Could do with OCing because the limiting factor in compiling maps is processor speed.

trepid_jesse · 02-03-2005, 05:13 AM

AMD Athlon 2400+ (2.0GHz)
1GB GEiL PC3200
Soyo Dragon Ultra KT333
Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB

o_lithium · 02-03-2005, 05:30 AM

heh,

Athlong 2800+ XP with a A7N8X Deluxe Mobo
512 Kingston Ram DDR

o_pud · 02-03-2005, 05:48 AM

AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 1.8ghz OC@ 3200+ 2.2ghz
Abit NF7-s nforce 2 mobo
512 2x256 kingston Hyper-X 3200 dual channel ram - going to get more soon
Nvidia Geforce FX 5900XT-OC (BFG)

and thought I would mention I use a Zippy EL(Electro-eluminated) keyboard. It's pretty neat

EDIT: OOH you said dev team, my bad

o_l0ki · 02-03-2005, 06:00 AM

Win2K pro, SP4
AMD Athlon 1.4GHz
512MB PC2100 DDR
128mb GeForce FX 5600
Samsung 19" CRT monitor
Logitech MX510 mouse
Logitech Elite Keyboard
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz soundcard
Koss headphones (now broken and taped back together with masking tape)

o_revz · 02-03-2005, 11:46 AM

AMD Athlon 64 3500+
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum nForce3 Motherboard
1GB DDR PC3200
250GB Maxtor DiamondMax Hard Drive
nVidia GeForce 6800 GT 256MB
Sony 21" CRT monitor

o_3xternal · 02-03-2005, 02:56 PM

trepid, do you suffer stuttering in HL2? Like, random sound stutters, not necessarily after a load or save,but just be-boppin around?

o_fjorn · 02-03-2005, 03:01 PM

Intel 2.4g Celeron (yeah yeah)
GeForce4 ti 4200
512M RAM

o_telroa · 02-03-2005, 06:51 PM

AMD Athlon 64 3000+
DFI Lanparty UT 250 Gb
768 MB some generic RAM
256 mb Geforce FX 5200

trepid_jesse · 02-03-2005, 07:31 PM

Yeah, I did, but some/most of it was alleviated after they released some patch in the days that followed the initial release of Half-Life 2.

I haven't played the singleplayer in awhile, though. So, not sure how it'd act now.

o_silver · 02-03-2005, 07:52 PM

Air Force issued dell

at home:
gateway 700x
2.8GHz intel pentium4
1gb of random pieces or ram i picked up around places

128 9600 pro ati radeon

i want to build a new 1 but i haven't found a good enuff reason yet

o_hatchman · 02-03-2005, 09:03 PM

p4 3.2

ATI 9800xt

1gig of ram

o_nuggs · 02-03-2005, 09:33 PM

Damn Revz

Windows XP Pro SP1
Athlon 64 2800+
Kingston PC 3200 512 MB
Geforce 6800 GT 256 MB @ 410/1100
MSI K8T Neo Mainboard
Creative SB Live 5.1 Sound Card

o_|404|innoc-tpf- · 02-03-2005, 10:10 PM

ASUS A7N8X-DELUXE
AMD Athlon 2800+ (Barton Core)
1GB PC2700
Radeon 9700 Pro
CL SBLive 5.1 Gamer Edition
ISDN

If it's to be believed the test in HL2 said 98 fps. All I know is that this machine is approaching 3 years in age and it still runs everything nice and smooth. Doom3 in Ultra at 1024 x 768 (note: I dedicated 500 MB of RAM for image pre-caching...that helped ALOT). My next jump will involve a Socket 939 Nforce4 motherboard....GO AMD!

o_voipme · 02-04-2005, 10:19 PM

Intel 3.2 GHz LGA 775 w/ HT
1 GB DDR2 4200
Nvidia Geforce 6600GT w/ 128mb
Audigy 2

I managed to get like 100 something FPS at 1280x1024 with practically everything turned on (besides anti-aliasing). It is a pretty machine.

o_3xternal · 02-05-2005, 03:51 AM

Quote:

AMD Athlon 64 3500+
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum nForce3 Motherboard
1GB DDR PC3200
250GB Maxtor DiamondMax Hard Drive
nVidia GeForce 6800 GT 256MB
Sony 21" CRT monitor

Jebus....

Me?

LAPTOP
Centrino 1.8 GHz
1 GB pc2700 DDR
radeon 9700 pro 256 MB
15.4 display
60GB 7200 RPM drive.

I'm selling my desktop bc the laptop beats it in almost every game
Desktop being sold:
Intel P4 2.4c GHz
512 MB DDR 333Mhz
(previously) Dual 80GB Seagate SATA RAID
Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MSI
MSI 865 Neo2 Mobo
Audigy 2 ZS

Selling it bc the laptop does not stutter in HL2 and loads doom3 faster than the SATA RAID.

I plan to get another desktop in the summer, when DDR2 has come down in latency and when the SATA standard is 3 gigbit, instead of 150 megabit (by then we should prolly see no more ATA hard drive compliant mobos) and when PCIE is fulyl hatched and usable at full potential...

o_thedarkone · 02-05-2005, 04:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 3Xternal

Centrino 1.8 GHz
1 GB pc2700 DDR
radeon 9700 pro 256 MB
15.4 display
60GB 7200 RPM drive.

Centrino isn't a processor. It's a brand Intel slaps on all its laptops that refers to various power usage reduction techniques and wireless connectivity.

And DDR2 will never get its latency down to the levels DDR has. The whole design philosophy behind it is a sacrifice in latency for higher clock speeds.

o_vertical · 02-05-2005, 04:53 AM

Since Everyone else is... :P

Computer 1: (Gaming, programming)
Hard Drives: One 60GB Western Digital 7200rpm & One 120GB Western Digital 7200rpm (may add another 250+)
Intel Pentium 4 2.4Ghz w/HT (I'll upgrade when I get the money for either an AMD 64 or Intel Extreme 3.8-4.0Ghz)
1GB of PC3200 Dual Channel DDR2 400Mhz RAM
SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Edition 7.1 Surround Sound Card
Dual 19" CRT & LCD Flat Panel Monitors at 2048x768 Resolution @ 100Hz
ASUS P4P800 Deluxe MB with 800Mhz FSB
nVIDIA GeForce 6800GT 256MB 256Bit 16pipe (by eVGA)
Thermaltake Xaser III series Case

Computer 2: (Opening suspisious files, Graphic design, and programming)
Hard Drive: 40GB Western Digital @ 7200rpm
Dell OPTIPLEX GX720
Intel Pentium 4 2.4Ghz w/HT
512MB RAM
Intel Extreme Integrated Graphics (As I don't need a high end card for this PC)
Standard Sound
Standard Dell Tower Case
19" Flat Panel LCD Monitor

For any other information and images go here www.hlevolve.com/cp1 & www.hlevolve.com/cp2 (Both pages are fairly up to date)

Both computers are running XP Professional SP2
Both on a wired 6Mbps Down/256Kbps up Cable Connection on a wirless router (The computer upstairs which isn't mine uses the wirless connection...)

EDIT: As stated in the post above, the latency is higher with DDR2, but I plan on getting OZ Tech RAM for my 2nd GB which is DDR2 (I think) it has CAS speeds of 2-2-2-5 rather than my current of 3-3-3-8 (which works totaly fine for everything I've needed to run on the system, including HL2 and every other game on the system at max graphics)

o_3xternal · 02-05-2005, 06:12 AM

Quote:

Centrino isn't a processor. It's a brand Intel slaps on all its laptops that refers to various power usage reduction techniques and wireless connectivity.

Sorry dood, but that is just down-right picky. What would u like, pentium M? Dothan? Cmon. By trying to correct me, you obviously understood what processor i meant.
I will correct myself

Ahem, Intel Pentium M 1.80Ghz

all honkey dorey? (sp) rofl :P
vgg

02-03-2005, 04:58 AM	#1
o_3xternal Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	What beasts are you cowboys riding? Just wondering what machines the development team uses in thier work? Are we nVidiots or Retardeon users? AMD or Intels etc.... If you are using an Dell, Compaq, or, at the worst, an HP, please don't admit it...

02-03-2005, 05:13 AM	#3
trepid_jesse Fortress Forever Staff Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Texas Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	AMD Athlon 2400+ (2.0GHz) 1GB GEiL PC3200 Soyo Dragon Ultra KT333 Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB __________________ Support FF: Trepid, what?

02-03-2005, 07:31 PM	#11
trepid_jesse Fortress Forever Staff Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Texas Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	Yeah, I did, but some/most of it was alleviated after they released some patch in the days that followed the initial release of Half-Life 2. I haven't played the singleplayer in awhile, though. So, not sure how it'd act now. __________________ Support FF: Trepid, what?

02-03-2005, 05:02 AM	#2
o_eat Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	AMD A64 Winchester 3000+ 1GB GEiL Value RAM AV8 3rd Eye mobo (v good try it out) Abit A400 6400 nu (nVidia) Could do with OCing because the limiting factor in compiling maps is processor speed.

02-03-2005, 05:30 AM	#4
o_lithium Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	heh, Athlong 2800+ XP with a A7N8X Deluxe Mobo 512 Kingston Ram DDR

02-03-2005, 05:48 AM	#5
o_pud Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Shreveport, LA Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 1.8ghz OC@ 3200+ 2.2ghz Abit NF7-s nforce 2 mobo 512 2x256 kingston Hyper-X 3200 dual channel ram - going to get more soon Nvidia Geforce FX 5900XT-OC (BFG) and thought I would mention I use a Zippy EL(Electro-eluminated) keyboard. It's pretty neat EDIT: OOH you said dev team, my bad

02-03-2005, 06:00 AM	#6
o_l0ki Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	Win2K pro, SP4 AMD Athlon 1.4GHz 512MB PC2100 DDR 128mb GeForce FX 5600 Samsung 19" CRT monitor Logitech MX510 mouse Logitech Elite Keyboard Turtle Beach Santa Cruz soundcard Koss headphones (now broken and taped back together with masking tape)

02-03-2005, 11:46 AM	#7
o_revz Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	AMD Athlon 64 3500+ MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum nForce3 Motherboard 1GB DDR PC3200 250GB Maxtor DiamondMax Hard Drive nVidia GeForce 6800 GT 256MB Sony 21" CRT monitor

02-03-2005, 02:56 PM	#8
o_3xternal Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	trepid, do you suffer stuttering in HL2? Like, random sound stutters, not necessarily after a load or save,but just be-boppin around?

02-03-2005, 03:01 PM	#9
o_fjorn Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	Intel 2.4g Celeron (yeah yeah) GeForce4 ti 4200 512M RAM

02-03-2005, 06:51 PM	#10
o_telroa Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	AMD Athlon 64 3000+ DFI Lanparty UT 250 Gb 768 MB some generic RAM 256 mb Geforce FX 5200

02-03-2005, 07:52 PM	#12
o_silver Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	Air Force issued dell at home: gateway 700x 2.8GHz intel pentium4 1gb of random pieces or ram i picked up around places 128 9600 pro ati radeon i want to build a new 1 but i haven't found a good enuff reason yet

02-03-2005, 09:03 PM	#13
o_hatchman Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: New York State Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	p4 3.2 ATI 9800xt 1gig of ram

02-03-2005, 09:33 PM	#14
o_nuggs Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	Damn Revz Windows XP Pro SP1 Athlon 64 2800+ Kingston PC 3200 512 MB Geforce 6800 GT 256 MB @ 410/1100 MSI K8T Neo Mainboard Creative SB Live 5.1 Sound Card

02-03-2005, 10:10 PM	#15
o_\|404\|innoc-tpf- Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Midtown Express Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	ASUS A7N8X-DELUXE AMD Athlon 2800+ (Barton Core) 1GB PC2700 Radeon 9700 Pro CL SBLive 5.1 Gamer Edition ISDN If it's to be believed the test in HL2 said 98 fps. All I know is that this machine is approaching 3 years in age and it still runs everything nice and smooth. Doom3 in Ultra at 1024 x 768 (note: I dedicated 500 MB of RAM for image pre-caching...that helped ALOT). My next jump will involve a Socket 939 Nforce4 motherboard....GO AMD!

02-04-2005, 10:19 PM	#16
o_voipme Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Work Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	Intel 3.2 GHz LGA 775 w/ HT 1 GB DDR2 4200 Nvidia Geforce 6600GT w/ 128mb Audigy 2 I managed to get like 100 something FPS at 1280x1024 with practically everything turned on (besides anti-aliasing). It is a pretty machine.

02-05-2005, 04:53 AM	#19
o_vertical Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: USA, KY Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	Since Everyone else is... :P Computer 1: (Gaming, programming) Hard Drives: One 60GB Western Digital 7200rpm & One 120GB Western Digital 7200rpm (may add another 250+) Intel Pentium 4 2.4Ghz w/HT (I'll upgrade when I get the money for either an AMD 64 or Intel Extreme 3.8-4.0Ghz) 1GB of PC3200 Dual Channel DDR2 400Mhz RAM SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Edition 7.1 Surround Sound Card Dual 19" CRT & LCD Flat Panel Monitors at 2048x768 Resolution @ 100Hz ASUS P4P800 Deluxe MB with 800Mhz FSB nVIDIA GeForce 6800GT 256MB 256Bit 16pipe (by eVGA) Thermaltake Xaser III series Case Computer 2: (Opening suspisious files, Graphic design, and programming) Hard Drive: 40GB Western Digital @ 7200rpm Dell OPTIPLEX GX720 Intel Pentium 4 2.4Ghz w/HT 512MB RAM Intel Extreme Integrated Graphics (As I don't need a high end card for this PC) Standard Sound Standard Dell Tower Case 19" Flat Panel LCD Monitor For any other information and images go here www.hlevolve.com/cp1 & www.hlevolve.com/cp2 (Both pages are fairly up to date) Both computers are running XP Professional SP2 Both on a wired 6Mbps Down/256Kbps up Cable Connection on a wirless router (The computer upstairs which isn't mine uses the wirless connection...) EDIT: As stated in the post above, the latency is higher with DDR2, but I plan on getting OZ Tech RAM for my 2nd GB which is DDR2 (I think) it has CAS speeds of 2-2-2-5 rather than my current of 3-3-3-8 (which works totaly fine for everything I've needed to run on the system, including HL2 and every other game on the system at max graphics)

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