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Tuesday, October 24, 2000

Sorry, no big philosophical ideals today: (I’ll do better on my next post)

I just got back from a fishing trip into the lakes of the North. We went up to the Fergis Falls area and fished for four days and tried for one of the most fun fish to catch. The Northern Pike. Man what a fish. I don’t mean your mamby pamby 12 incher from Nebraska. I mean the ones that range from three feet and up! What fun… sigh:

Anyway I wanted to post a blog and go to town on system shtuff. How many of our readers actually have the killer system. The one that totes an Athelon 900+ with a 450+ dollar g-force+ card and the 500+ meg of ram, and maybe for kickers, a Dell Trinitron 19+inch monitor?…Probably not many… I would venture to say that MOST of us out there are at the mid to upper-mid level. The typical system is this:
A processor at 400 to 700, a card from the VooDoo 3 3000, to maybe the Viper Ultra. These cards were in the 150 to 250 dollar range just over a year ago… Most run on a 15-inch monitor, but there are those that sport a 17 and that crowd is growing. Ram usually hits in the 256 range, but there are those that run at 128 range if their chip is ramped enough. If you have upgraded lately, you probably put in some ram, or maybe went out and got a new board or processor… But you most likely didn’t upgrade the whole system..

So in the near future, I will be doing some posts on the “REVIEWS” page and talk a little about stuff put into our type of system
Mine?
Oh it’s a Pentium2, 450. I have for starters, a Diamond Viper V-770 Ultra video card, and 540 meg of ram. I really don’t think that this is the stellar system and do not make it a habit to taunt my system out there, but I would say that I basically have a normal or typical system, maybe a little heavy on the ram, but other than that, a normal system. I run on an Envision $150.00 17-inch monitor.

Limited as I am I will do some comparisons of equipment I have assuming that you and I have basically the same systems.

**LOOK** for my reviews in the future.

My first review will be running a benchmark 2000 on my system comparing the Diamond Viper to my VooDoo 3 3000. As well as running UT on both and I will cut my ram in half after that to give comparisons there as well…

Stay Tuned:
Later Days
Rogue
posted by Rogue at 12:47 PM