View Full Version : Get Aboard the PCI Express
Laurianne McLaughlin
From the August 2004 issue of PC World magazine
Posted Thursday, July, 01, 2004
"Although chip sets--the hard-working assistants on a motherboard--rarely make front-page news, Intel's latest, designed for Pentium 4 systems, definitely deserve your attention. First, they mark the debut of PCI Express, the faster PCI bus that will supersede the AGP bus for graphics and will eventually replace current PCI slots."
PC World (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116703,00.asp)
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[This message was edited by Paul Nussbaum on 07-27-04 at 10:02 PM.]
booster
07-28-2004, 06:58 AM
Can't wait. I am saving up the money for an AMD 64, and the matching mobo http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif.
Originally posted by booster:
Can't wait. I am saving up the money for an AMD 64, and the matching mobo http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif.
Just in time for Doom 3.
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jimnms
07-28-2004, 07:01 PM
Originally posted by Paul Nussbaum:
Just in time for Doom 3.
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I'm going to skip doom3, at least for a while. It requires a 512MB video card to run it on the highest graphics setting. With a 128MB card, you will have to use the medium setting.
That's not the main reason though, I'm not a big fan of id's games. The original Doom was awesome for it's time, Quake was only successful because the engine was revolutionary, and it just happened to be playable over the internet. I'm not a big fan of alien blaster type games, and every game id has done has stupid rediculous looking cartoonish monsters in it. Half-Life was the first alien blaster game that I really got into, and I'm more looking forward to it than D3.
I'll pick it up after it my next upgrade, and when it doesn't cost $60.
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I concur. The original Doom was a blast!
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booster
07-29-2004, 07:06 AM
I can't play Doom, I would get DIMS (doom induced motion sickness) http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/wink.gif.
I just want speed! http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
jimnms
07-29-2004, 07:41 AM
All this talk about doom dug up some happy memories for me. http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif
Long before we had internet, there was a local BBS. On the logout screen you could post messages, and that's how I met a bunch of my friends. We'd post stuff like "call me at xxx-xxxx if you want you ass kicked at Doom."
I remember one day some guy called me and wanted to play some deathmatch. I said ok, we connected and played for hours. I felt sorry for the guy, he never got one kill, but he tried so hard. http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/cool.gif He never called me back to play again, and I never got his name.
I remember playing Doom and Doom2 coop for hours with a friend of mine over our super fast 14.4k modems. We'd start at the begenning and play till the end.
I made a sound mod for doom, and I made a special version of it for the friend I played coop with. It included the sounds, but in his version I edited the Doom guy's skin to make it transparent except when I fired my gun. http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif I challenged him to some deathmatch. He never figured it out, after a few hours he finally quit thinking something was wrong with his computer. I eventually confessed.
Eventually we all got together and started having LAN parties. One guy had three old ARCNet network cards that we used. Later, somehow we got a 4th card so we could play teams.
First it was 4 of us with Doom/Doom2, then Duke Nukem 3D. A few of them started a computer store, and every weekend we'd meet there and play Quake with the TWCTF (and later Thunderwalker) mod. Somehow word got out and other people started showing up. It got to where we'd have 10-16 people every weekend.
The store was in the perfect place, there was a Pizza hut next door and a 25 cent RC machine outside.
Those were the best times, but it eventually came to an end. A few of the guys moved, and eventually they shut down the store. http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/frown.gif
We had a few smaller LAN parties after that, but nothing on the scale as before. In fact the weekend I broke my neck I had brough my computer to town to have one last get together with a couple of friends before one of them left for the Navy.
The reason I was riding with my friend was because I had packed my computer and clothes in my truck ready to go back to school and I didn't want to drive it around with my stuff in it. If only I had taken my truck. Oh well there goes the happy mood I was in. http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/frown.gif
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Learn from the mistakes of others, you won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.