more parts
Aug. 2nd, 2003 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solipsistnationPicking up a wireless PCI network card today, so I can have a little box with an antenna poking out the back.
The two biggest things are waiting for sales or for random influxes of cash (like, you know, paychecks). Those are the monitor (I'm planning on getting an LCD-- this is supposed to be a vaguely portable system, after all) and the video card (which will be wanktastic, because I can).
My philosophy toward computer-building is that if I'm going to build something new, I might as well get the best hardware I can afford and have it be somewhere near cutting-edge for as long as possible. Usually that gives me an extra month or so of bragging rights, but considering that the last gaming system I built still isn't considered too shabby (1.2GHz Athlon, 512MB RAM, 64MB GeForce2 GTS card-- got 7500-8000 on 3Dmark2001, if you consider that indicative of anything), even a year and a half after I got tired of it and sold it off, I think I've got a reasonable handle on this sort of thing by now.
Of course, for half the games I want to revisit (Thief, for example) the system I'm building is total absurd overkill. I first played Thief on a 200MHz Pentium Pro with a voodoo3 card in it, and it had no problems at all (aside from some monitor-gamma issues that led me to dub the game "Thief: The Really Ridiculously Dark Project" until I figured out what was going on).
The next problem will be finding a room in our house dim enough to be able to see the monitor...
The two biggest things are waiting for sales or for random influxes of cash (like, you know, paychecks). Those are the monitor (I'm planning on getting an LCD-- this is supposed to be a vaguely portable system, after all) and the video card (which will be wanktastic, because I can).
My philosophy toward computer-building is that if I'm going to build something new, I might as well get the best hardware I can afford and have it be somewhere near cutting-edge for as long as possible. Usually that gives me an extra month or so of bragging rights, but considering that the last gaming system I built still isn't considered too shabby (1.2GHz Athlon, 512MB RAM, 64MB GeForce2 GTS card-- got 7500-8000 on 3Dmark2001, if you consider that indicative of anything), even a year and a half after I got tired of it and sold it off, I think I've got a reasonable handle on this sort of thing by now.
Of course, for half the games I want to revisit (Thief, for example) the system I'm building is total absurd overkill. I first played Thief on a 200MHz Pentium Pro with a voodoo3 card in it, and it had no problems at all (aside from some monitor-gamma issues that led me to dub the game "Thief: The Really Ridiculously Dark Project" until I figured out what was going on).
The next problem will be finding a room in our house dim enough to be able to see the monitor...