I played a new system this weekend

I was at a place called Microcenter in Chicago. They had a one-off gaming
rig, assembled by some company I had never heard of. It claimed to have 1G
ram, an Athlon FX 64, and an nVidia FX 5950 Ultra.

I played MaxPayne II, and Unreal II.

It was pretty... but I was left unimpressed. for $3000 I thought it would be
more responsive.

Just thought i would share...

NuTs

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:35:46 -0600, nut cracker wrote:

I was at a place called Microcenter in Chicago. They had a one-off gaming
rig, assembled by some company I had never heard of. It claimed to have 1G
ram, an Athlon FX 64, and an nVidia FX 5950 Ultra.

I played MaxPayne II, and Unreal II.

It was pretty... but I was left unimpressed. for $3000 I thought it would be
more responsive.

Just thought i would share...

NuTs

I think most of the gaming community found Unreal 2 to be unimpressive
too.

"Dave" wrote in message
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On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:35:46 -0600, nut cracker wrote:

I was at a place called Microcenter in Chicago. They had a one-off
gaming
rig, assembled by some company I had never heard of. It claimed to have
1G
ram, an Athlon FX 64, and an nVidia FX 5950 Ultra.

I played MaxPayne II, and Unreal II.

It was pretty... but I was left unimpressed. for $3000 I thought it
would be
more responsive.

Just thought i would share...

NuTs

I think most of the gaming community found Unreal 2 to be unimpressive
too.


I like unreal 2 - excellent weapons, good level design, great characters and
storyline - and a few interesting twists.

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 18:43:34 +0100, "Kai Robinson"
wrote:

I like unreal 2 - excellent weapons, good level design, great characters and
storyline - and a few interesting twists.

I am sure Legend will be pleased to hear that someone liked it. They
can put that on their headstone.
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Its like I said... it looked beautiful, and the game play (story line,
etc..) was nice. I liked playing it, but i thought it would be more...
something.

Its just for a 64 bit proc, 1GB of Ram, and the most kick-ass nVidia GPU
available.... I was expecting more. Its not that I am commenting on the game
titles, its my disappointment in my experience with the collection of
hardware. Of course, they may have been running XP32bit and not XP64, which
might have made a difference. I dont know. I guess I expected something...
different. I guess I thought the diff would fell like going from a PIII 750
to an Athlon XP 2100 + (which was HUGE....).... oh well..

I did get a cool black keyboard for like $3.00 though. And some 80MM case
fans with LOOOONNNGGGG 3pin power cables for $6 each. The day wasnt a a
complete loss.

Cheers,

NuTs

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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:35:46 -0600, nut cracker wrote:

I was at a place called Microcenter in Chicago. They had a one-off
gaming
rig, assembled by some company I had never heard of. It claimed to
have
1G
ram, an Athlon FX 64, and an nVidia FX 5950 Ultra.

I played MaxPayne II, and Unreal II.

It was pretty... but I was left unimpressed. for $3000 I thought it
would be
more responsive.

Just thought i would share...

NuTs

I think most of the gaming community found Unreal 2 to be unimpressive
too.


I like unreal 2 - excellent weapons, good level design, great characters
and
storyline - and a few interesting twists.

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 17:21:46 +0000, Dave wrote:

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:35:46 -0600, nut cracker wrote:

I was at a place called Microcenter in Chicago. They had a one-off gaming
rig, assembled by some company I had never heard of. It claimed to have 1G
ram, an Athlon FX 64, and an nVidia FX 5950 Ultra.

I played MaxPayne II, and Unreal II.

It was pretty... but I was left unimpressed. for $3000 I thought it would be
more responsive.

Just thought i would share...

NuTs

I think most of the gaming community found Unreal 2 to be unimpressive
too.


Yes, Unreal2 and Call of Duty share the dubious honor of being
amongst the shortest SP games released in the past couple of years.
At least COD has a (cheater's field-day) MP mode. Unreal2 never
got a MP update, in spite of many assertions before its release.
COD MP reputedly will get PunkBuster someday.

John Lewis

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 19:09:55 GMT, (John Lewis)
wrote:

Unreal2 never got a MP update, in spite of many assertions before its release.

Erm, what is this then?

http://www.3dgamers.com/news/more/1071024112/
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(John Lewis) brightened my day with his incisive
wit when in he conjectured that:

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 17:21:46 +0000, Dave wrote:

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:35:46 -0600, nut cracker wrote:

I was at a place called Microcenter in Chicago. They had a one-off
gaming rig, assembled by some company I had never heard of. It
claimed to have 1G ram, an Athlon FX 64, and an nVidia FX 5950
Ultra.

I played MaxPayne II, and Unreal II.

It was pretty... but I was left unimpressed. for $3000 I thought it
would be more responsive.

Just thought i would share...

NuTs

I think most of the gaming community found Unreal 2 to be unimpressive
too.


Yes, Unreal2 and Call of Duty share the dubious honor of being
amongst the shortest SP games released in the past couple of years.
At least COD has a (cheater's field-day) MP mode. Unreal2 never
got a MP update, in spite of many assertions before its release.

Actually there were no assertions before its release.

However they certainly DID release multiplayer : and a very good
multiplayer too.

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 13:40:07 +0100, Walter Mitty
wrote:

(John Lewis) brightened my day with his incisive
wit when in he conjectured that:

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 17:21:46 +0000, Dave wrote:

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:35:46 -0600, nut cracker wrote:

I was at a place called Microcenter in Chicago. They had a one-off
gaming rig, assembled by some company I had never heard of. It
claimed to have 1G ram, an Athlon FX 64, and an nVidia FX 5950
Ultra.

I played MaxPayne II, and Unreal II.

It was pretty... but I was left unimpressed. for $3000 I thought it
would be more responsive.

Just thought i would share...

NuTs

I think most of the gaming community found Unreal 2 to be unimpressive
too.


Yes, Unreal2 and Call of Duty share the dubious honor of being
amongst the shortest SP games released in the past couple of years.
At least COD has a (cheater's field-day) MP mode. Unreal2 never
got a MP update, in spite of many assertions before its release.

Actually there were no assertions before its release.

However they certainly DID release multiplayer : and a very good
multiplayer too.


oops... many apologies... brain f**t.......too much coffee too late
at night....

Thanks to all for setting me straight.

John Lewis

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:35:46 -0600 in
alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia, "nut cracker"
wrote:

I was at a place called Microcenter in Chicago. They had a one-off gaming
rig, assembled by some company I had never heard of. It claimed to have 1G
ram, an Athlon FX 64, and an nVidia FX 5950 Ultra.

I played MaxPayne II, and Unreal II.

It was pretty... but I was left unimpressed. for $3000 I thought it would be
more responsive.

Just thought i would share...

Those run fine on my rig (XP2000+/512MB/FX5600) so it wouldn't make
much of a difference on faster h/w apart from turning up res and AA,
etc.