R.I.P. Radeon 9700 I bought to run IL2 finally gives up...
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 11:58 pm
After I upgraded to the 9800, I set up a rig for my father with it a few years back so he could play with IL2. He finally burned it out, so I was going to give him my old Gf3 Ti500, but then I decided that I did not want to downgrade his experience and I put the Radeon 9800 I also had lying around in his rig for a replacement. Now I am still running the old x850xt.
How much money has IL2 made me spend over the years? Quite a bit at one time, but as the sim got older, and the equipment it could be run on got older, I simply stopped spending money on new equipment. I still fly on an AGP, 32-bit Nforce2 rig, and it does just fine.
I did however, find a really nice HP tower at a garage sale this weekend that is only about three years old.
The MB is bad, but for $50 It had a light-scribe pata DVD burner, a 500gb sata drive, 2gigs of DDR2 ram, the case and a 1GB Nvidia PciExpress 9400gt card. It also had a 500w Antec power supply in it, plus I got the original good PS to boot! The cpu is a AMD X2 5200 dual core. So I ordered a new Asus board for it for $70 from NewEgg, so I will have a new rig for $120 that should run the sim well as it is, and that I can seriously upgrade if I ever have to. I also got all the restore disks for the rig and other software it came with.
For another $25 I got the wide-screed lcd monitor for it, which measures 18" diagonal, which I can probably sell and make a lot of my money back. I could have gotten a really cool printer that was original to it, but I just do not need another printer!
The sale was by a military couple that had to re-locate a few thousand miles away so they were dumping everything.
So suddenly, I am going to be back to the future, as far as computer hardware goes anyway. I really love my old rig, but sometimes you just cannot pass up a deal.
A friend of mine is still running my first IL2 rig, a gigabyte kt133a MB with a GF2ultra card and 768mb of sdram. It still runs IL246 well for him, though at low res with not much eye candy.
How much money has IL2 made me spend over the years? Quite a bit at one time, but as the sim got older, and the equipment it could be run on got older, I simply stopped spending money on new equipment. I still fly on an AGP, 32-bit Nforce2 rig, and it does just fine.
I did however, find a really nice HP tower at a garage sale this weekend that is only about three years old.
The MB is bad, but for $50 It had a light-scribe pata DVD burner, a 500gb sata drive, 2gigs of DDR2 ram, the case and a 1GB Nvidia PciExpress 9400gt card. It also had a 500w Antec power supply in it, plus I got the original good PS to boot! The cpu is a AMD X2 5200 dual core. So I ordered a new Asus board for it for $70 from NewEgg, so I will have a new rig for $120 that should run the sim well as it is, and that I can seriously upgrade if I ever have to. I also got all the restore disks for the rig and other software it came with.
For another $25 I got the wide-screed lcd monitor for it, which measures 18" diagonal, which I can probably sell and make a lot of my money back. I could have gotten a really cool printer that was original to it, but I just do not need another printer!
The sale was by a military couple that had to re-locate a few thousand miles away so they were dumping everything.
So suddenly, I am going to be back to the future, as far as computer hardware goes anyway. I really love my old rig, but sometimes you just cannot pass up a deal.
A friend of mine is still running my first IL2 rig, a gigabyte kt133a MB with a GF2ultra card and 768mb of sdram. It still runs IL246 well for him, though at low res with not much eye candy.