I am going to buy an alienware (please dont write anything about this... Im getting one and thats final )

What configuration do I need to have the best fs gaming rig out there?
I already have my mind set up for the graphics card and memory.
NviDia Geforce 6800 Ultra Pci Express
4g of memory (mayor Airplane storage baby )

Its gonna be pentium 4EE and its an area 51 550

please write you suggestions.

Its not Maverick... Its marick ??? ???

Your machine is complete overkill!

4GB RAM?  P4EE ? Get Real man!

You'll get FAR better results round an AMD 64 based System with NForce 4, Dual 6800 Ultras on SLI* or, an ATI 850XT PE , at a max, 2GB RAM & some 10,000rpm SCSI drives in a RAID setup. Nice & fast for an awful lot less money!

* FS9 won't support SLI properly, but, most other games do! - FS9 will still look great & run superbly.

My point being a p4 ee is NO faster than a standard p4 of similar speed when it comes to playing games.

4GB RAM? - roughly £500 for the good stuff! 2GB would ,frankly , be a waste of money imo! - I notice little improvement with FS9 &  1GB RAM (over 512 ) apart from slightly improved loading times......

My point being, the excessive cost of 4BG RAM & a p4ee would be better spent elsewhere in the system .


Speak to Alienware, as you seem to be set on making them a tidy profit!, change the spec to something that you'll actually see the benefit of !

Its your money & your choice, as you obviously did'nt bother to heed the advice we gave here

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=hardw;action=display;num=1...

I'm somewhat surprised your still coming back with more questions!

You've been advised ,correctly imo, not just by me, I doubt the advice from the others has changed.


Maverick  


Apologies if my reply seems a bit impolite, I've had a really bad day so anybody who crosses my path gets it!!!

I'm not having a go at you, I just don't want to watch you make a mistake in a large purchase!

Paul - Mr Miserable ol' B'stard 

Well fists off if you want a hardcore gaming rig ditch Intel and get an AMD64, I don't care what the intel guys tell ya benchmarks and user experience speak for themselves. 6800 Ultra is a good choice, its about 450$ now for AGP so its a great buy. I think you are misunderstanding the whole 4 gig of memory thing, what you are refering to is RAM wich deletes upon power loss, if it didint computer boot up would take abot 1 second. You will never use 4 gigs in ANY game EVER, waste of money plus it will cause data lag, a gig to a gig and a half is all you want really for games. Hard drive I suggest 1 74 Western Digi Raptor SATA  drive. This is currently the top dog in performance sata wise, RAIDing them wont improve much, just more space.
Back to the processors I did post a summary on why AMD does perform better in games, if you are interested I will try to find it. If you have the bucks I suggest you got AMD64 FX-55, lower budget the best performing chips are AMD64 with either a Venice or San Diego core, but you dont get that option over at alienware so an AMD65 FX-55 of 3500-4000 will be an excelent chip. So to summarze (in terms with what you want....kinda) here is what I would get : 6800U, 1 Gig PC-3200 ram, AMD64 3500-4000 or FX-55, 1 or 2 WD Raptor hard disks. That will take you at the speed of light