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Jan 16^th, 2005 at 11:59pm

Jester Offline
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Looking at adding another PC to the network to run FS 2000, play CFS1 and 3 across the Lan... etc.. etc.. How do these specs sound:

1.5 Ghz
256MB RAM
40GB HDD
48x CD-Rom
Win2K - I'm still a OS junkie.. gotta play yanno.
32MB Video memory.

Thanks in advance,

John

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Reply #1 - Jan 17^th, 2005 at 5:36am

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I'm not the best-qualified to assess your system, but I'll tell you that my first setup had a 1.3 CPU, a 64M card and only 256M RAM , and it ran FS9 pretty poorly even at the default settings. I've since upgraded to a 256M card and added another 256M of RAM, and it's much better, but I suspect with more RAM and a faster CPU, it would be even better. It all depends on how you want it to look and run, but I'd advise a better gfx card and a little more RAM, at the very least. A 40GB hard drive is more than adequate: I've got FS9, CFS3, and IL2/PF installed, and it's not too bad, although I need to expand now to have room for other stuff.
Uh... my bad; looking again at your post, I see you said FS2000, not 2004... I've never had that one, so ... Anyway, CFS will probably run fine on a system like that, but if you can afford it, you'd be well off to go with at least a 128MB video card, and if you're planning to ever upgrade to FS2004, then what I said above is worth considering.

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Reply #2 - Jan 17^th, 2005 at 11:54am

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I suppose I can bump up the RAM and Video card after I buy it. I don't want to have a whole lot of cash tied up in the system - heck I can get the system for under $300.00 as listed.

Thanks,

John

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Reply #3 - Jan 17^th, 2005 at 3:37pm

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Having not played the CFS series I can't say much, but for FS9 you'll need at least 512mb of ram and a 128mb card for anything decent. FS9 is greedy on resources.

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GeForce 8800 GT 512MB
2 x 22" monitors
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Reply #4 - Jan 17^th, 2005 at 7:49pm

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FS9 is greedy on resources.

SO true, CFS3 is also pretty intensive as far as performance out of the pc is concerned in my honest opinion.. Wink

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Reply #5 - Jan 18^th, 2005 at 10:45pm

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Thanks all for the input. I settled on a IBM Think Centre:

2.8 Ghz
512 Mb RAM
80Gb Hdd
48x CD
32 Mb Video

It should do ok for what I am going to do.

Thank again,

John

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Reply #6 - Jan 19^th, 2005 at 7:37pm

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Thanks all for the input. I settled on a IBM Think Centre:

2.8 Ghz
512 Mb RAM
80Gb Hdd
48x CD
32 Mb Video

It should do ok for what I am going to do.

Thank again,

John

I would get something with a better vid card. But otherwise, it seems ok.

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