Hello.
I'm new to the EQ2 boards but I frequent the EQOA boards alot. I kinda grew tired of playing EQ on my PS2 because it was getting to be...well...boring. I have always wanted to try EQ on the PC but never had a computer worthy of supporting this game and other stuff as well.
I'm in the process of building a computer and today was a good day. Check out what I got for under 400 bucks.
-ATX Motherboard made by Asrock
-Intel Pentium 4 processor
-1 GHz RAM
-Case, keyboard, mouse, and speakers.
All this equipment only cost me $375.00.
To break it down:
Motherboard and P4 processor - $231.00
1 GHz of RAM - $76.00
Case, Keyboard, Optical Mouse, and speakers to match the case - $68.00
All I need now is a video card and a HDD. I bought my copy of EQ2 already. Just a matter of time now before I will be joining you guys.
I'm thinking of starting a Scout - alignment: good.
Edited, Wed Mar 30 18:04:42 2005 by Sypherr
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Sounds like you have a good system in the making. Ensure you also get a video card with at least 128MB RAM. If you can afford 256MB, go for it.
Check out the video card requirements for the game, as not all cards can support it:
"DirectX 9 compatible video card w/ pixel shader and vertex shader support. With at least 64MB of texture memory." I have a Nvidia GForce 5200 128MB with the above requirements, works good.
There are several good threads in the SOE forums, including this small one about the Isle of Refuge.
Here's the link for Scout information.
Here's one of the best maps site so far.
Good luck! :)
Check out the video card requirements for the game, as not all cards can support it:
"DirectX 9 compatible video card w/ pixel shader and vertex shader support. With at least 64MB of texture memory." I have a Nvidia GForce 5200 128MB with the above requirements, works good.
There are several good threads in the SOE forums, including this small one about the Isle of Refuge.
Here's the link for Scout information.
Here's one of the best maps site so far.
Good luck! :)
Thats the exact video card I was looking at. How much did you pay for it.
The lady who is selling me this stuff owns a computer wholesale shop and I get a discount because of the school I attend (ITT Technical Institute). If she doesnt have it, she can get it to me for cheap.
Does 375.00 sound like a good price for the stuff I bought today?
The lady who is selling me this stuff owns a computer wholesale shop and I get a discount because of the school I attend (ITT Technical Institute). If she doesnt have it, she can get it to me for cheap.
Does 375.00 sound like a good price for the stuff I bought today?
That is one hell of a deal on memory. I can't even get it that cheap dealing with best buy and on rebate deals. Normally 512 megs of ram costs about $50 after dealing with a rebate.
Being pentium brand that is a good deal, unless of course its a slow chip or a celeron. I am more of a AMD person because of the price. I recently paid $250 shipped for a new Gigabyte motherboard with the nvidia chipset and a amd athlon 64 3000+ chip/fan/heatsink combo. I love those nvidia chipset boards, they run silky smooth. I used to buy cheap motherboards with via chipset, bleh was constantly crashing, etc.
You can get geforce FX 5600 cards with 256 megs of ram on Ebay for $100 shipped. I got my card there and I can run eq2 with graphics on high.
Being pentium brand that is a good deal, unless of course its a slow chip or a celeron. I am more of a AMD person because of the price. I recently paid $250 shipped for a new Gigabyte motherboard with the nvidia chipset and a amd athlon 64 3000+ chip/fan/heatsink combo. I love those nvidia chipset boards, they run silky smooth. I used to buy cheap motherboards with via chipset, bleh was constantly crashing, etc.
You can get geforce FX 5600 cards with 256 megs of ram on Ebay for $100 shipped. I got my card there and I can run eq2 with graphics on high.
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That is one hell of a deal on memory. I can't even get it that cheap dealing with best buy and on rebate deals. Normally 512 megs of ram costs about $50 after dealing with a rebate.
Oops, I made a mistake. I will be getting 512 megs for $76.00. I have another memory card of 512 just laying around from another computer I had. Its compatible and everything. I was thinking 1 gig but wrote $76.00. My bad. But still, I think she cut me a pretty good deal on all this stuff.
I too like AMD processors and that 64 you're running is a monster, I know. However, I couldn't pass up that packaged deal she gave me. Top of the line Asrock motherboard and a P4 for 231...I had to get it. A P4 costs almost 200 bucks by itself.
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