View Full Version : What is you PC Speed
digger760
03-10-2003, 11:23
Inspired by Cols new beast i thought i'd run a poll on peoples PC speed in Mhz.
I have a laptop and a PC. The laptop has a Celeron 333Mhz, it is slow for SP games, but perfect for PBEM's. My home PC has an Athlon XP1600.
If you have an Athlon us the XP number in the poll. So even though an XP1600 is apporx 1400Mhz - vote it as 1600Mhz
Since I use my laptop for the bulk of my PBEM's i have voted it in the poll
Lt. Killer M
03-10-2003, 12:37
I have a laptopt (voted) with 1,1 GHz and a desktop (my OWN!) at work with 800 MHz
Interesting to see such a wide spread. I have a AthlonXP 1.7GHz.
laptop P3-700mhz. At home I have a P2-300mhz, it has 192megs of ram so it handles Civ but very slow and only vanilla type. It used to do PTW too, but fro some obscure reason that suddenly stopped
[eek]
Time for an upgrade PP !
Need a loan or something ?
666mhz Pentium at home, was pretty fast when I got it... 5 years ago?
I've been in the market for a new cpu for the last couple years, but just haven't found time or energy to do the deed.
It works for civ and I don't have time for much else at home anyway.
Plus, I have lots of toys to play with at work. Right now I type on a dual 1Ghz mac G4 with 1.5G of ram. I like OSX.
I use this to access to computing power that is simply unbelievable.
if you loan me 2500 gold, I refund you 130 gpyear for the next 20 years ok? :D
Laptop shelflive ends 6/04. So that has a few months to go. Home pc replacement project has alrdy started, I'm in the 'WTF is on the market nowadays phase'
PP
You bet Gothmog !
I have Macs since 1984 :D, they're just the best !
Currently saving to buy the PowerMac G5 Double 64bit processor for Xmas :
Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5
1GHz frontside bus
512K L2 cache/processor
512MB DDR400 128-bit SDRAM
8GB SDRAM
160GB Serial ATA
SuperDrive
Three PCI-X Slots
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
64MB DDR video memory
Can't get better than that can it ? [lol]
jack merchant
03-10-2003, 15:13
PIII-450 here, with 128MB. It handles PTW alright (large maps will slow down a bit in the late game and huge maps aren't an option, but I find those take too long anyway).
Fortunately, I have long been used to games being slow - used to play the old BlueByte strategy game Historyline 1914-18 back in the day when the AI turn would take several minutes, and did my school homework while waiting.
digger760
03-10-2003, 15:25
quote:Originally posted by ProPain
laptop P3-700mhz. At home I have a P2-300mhz, it has 192megs of ram so it handles Civ but very slow and only vanilla type. It used to do PTW too, but fro some obscure reason that suddenly stopped
Oh no[eek] i hope my laptop doesn't give up PTW. That would upset alot of fellow civ players and me[sad]
digger760
03-10-2003, 15:27
quote:Originally posted by Skyfish
You bet Gothmog !
I have Macs since 1984 :D, they're just the best !
Currently saving to buy the PowerMac G5 Double 64bit processor for Xmas :
Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5
1GHz frontside bus
512K L2 cache/processor
512MB DDR400 128-bit SDRAM
8GB SDRAM
160GB Serial ATA
SuperDrive
Three PCI-X Slots
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
64MB DDR video memory
Can't get better than that can it ? [lol]
you and col can do a Huge mape 1 on 1
We may have the same present under the tree this Xmas. [jump]
I'll keep the PC just for civ duty. I also currently have a 333mHz G3.
I've always been a mac person, my first was a iie in 1983(?) - 1mHz, 64k ram. [love]
The PC was so I had a computer to work at home with (software issues).
For me PC has only been at work for ages until....last year I bought what at the time was a beast, the P4 2.8Ghz 1GB DRAM and latest Nvidia 128MB video card....in order to play Civ3 :D
My wife is a professional music producer and works on Macs. I think I have between here and at my parents, at least 8 or 9 of them [crazyeye] next year will be 20years of the collection. I keep telling everyone it will be worth tons one day ;)
This summer I rebooted our first one ! Amazing ! MacWrite and Multiplan but a 14 year old would spend hours on MacPaint : that was THE shit of the moment :D
My father bought it when he was visiting professor at the University of Iowa Creative Writing Lab and I was with him for the semester in 1984. I convinced him not to buy the Apple2c..hehe... The Mac was$2000 with a 40% discount for teachers, still a huge sum at the time [lol]
It was indeed 1 year after release but if I recall correctly at the time 2 versions were available : the 128KB and the 512KB (the latter being by far the most powerful personal computer at the time) We were noobs, and poor, so we bought the 128KB [lol]
[scratch] I dont believe there's ever been a 64KB Mac ;)
...and sorry for the rambling on [talk]
Yeah, the civ compatability issue is a bitch.
Edit - yes there was a 64k apple, the apple iie - my first cpu.
I had my eye on a mac ii+ (48k of ram), but the iie had just been released so I spent nearly my whole savings on it (birthday gifts etc. from the previous decade). I don't think the iic was out at the time.
I am pretty sure the original apple ii had only 4 k of RAM.
oh yeah for sure I was just taliking about the original Macintosh, not the Apples...
ah yes, I was learning to program at the time and needed the apple. Also was significantly cheaper.
No gui, it ran DOS and had BASIC built into the ROM.
Heh, no hard drive at all. I did get a floppy drive eventually for games and storage. Convinced my parents I needed it to run PASCAL (I did).
Spam spa spam spam spa spam...
Sir Eric
04-10-2003, 04:23
I have an Athlon XP 2600+, 512Mb pc2700 DDR RAM on an MSI dual channel Mobo with a 333Mhz FSB (I think?)
Pastorius
25-10-2003, 10:47
Athlon Xp2100+, 512mb DDR RAM, etc etc
Athlon XP 1700+, due for replacement once my desperate search for extraterrestial life again consumes a delicate PC component.
Dell Latirude D800 Laptop.
1.6 Ghz
512 RAM
Athlon XP2600+ at home
At work, Pentium III 866 (IIRC) Not that I can play games (or even view this site!) with it....
Moonsinger
01-12-2003, 18:14
My system at home is a P4 3.4GHz 800FSB. It actually has a P4-2.8GHz CPU overlocked at 3.4 GHz (extremly stable at 3.4Ghz). Currently, it has only 512 Mbytes of PC4000 DDR memory, but I'm planning to add another 2 Gigs of memory as soon as the price drop to around $100 per Gig.
bunjatec
10-02-2004, 23:20
Dual Athalon MP2000+ here.
or a dual PII 400 ;-/
Don't ask why, I just like pairs.
Welcome bunjatec! Hope you stay to play a few games. :)
Socrates
11-02-2004, 12:42
OK, let's go off-topic.
I have MY computer at home, and a few weeks ago I was able to get Internet directly on it (via a family network), thus allowing me to come and play here. :) It's an Athlon 1800+ with 256 MB RAM... Civ3 works OK with that, and because I don't like games with 3D graphics and stuff (usually the greadier the dumber), I don't plan any upgrade... until I know what's up for Civ4 at least ! :D
Now why am I so slow to send my turns ? Well, I'm a micro-manager... [blush]
Col.Tarleton
13-02-2004, 15:39
My comps spec is:-2.8 megathingies,1 gig whatsits,all the bells and whistles and last but not least,broadwhatyermacallit.edit,gigathingies.
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