Alien Ware or Upgrade CPU for Morrowind

[God Father]

what whould be better to own, alien ware or upgrade owned CPU for maximum performance for Morrowind. (NOTE: MY CPU IS ALL MESSED UP, SEE "AUTO SAVE" IN LOUNGE FOR UP TO DATE INFO. QUESTION IS REALLY, WOULD IT BE BETTER TO BUY A NEW CPU, OR UPGRADE A CPU THAT FREEZES AND NO 1 KNOWS WHAT IT IS?)

[Gooblecakes]

i'd get a brand spankin new alien ware.

[sirwootalot123]

well, the answer is so obvious that i dont know why you made a poll...
ALIENWARE!!!
what are your specs now though?
Ive got a 1.4 gig duron processor, geforce MX440 vid card, 80 gig maxtor HD, and 256 MB ram.

[Abarsai]

Is this a "show off your computer's specs" thread? lol

I will post mine! I built mine too. It is tons of fun!

AMD 2500 Barton Core
512 DDR400 Dual Channel
NFII Ultra Infinity
ATI 9800 PRO 128mb
2 80gb WD 7200rpm drives in raid 0
Silver X-Blade case
21" monitor

Later,

[Vernon]

Build your own for god's sake. I get the impression Alienware are overpriced fanboy-l33t counterstrike generation-type bollocks.

My new baby:

CPU: AMD Athlon FX-53
MoBo: ASUS SK8N
Cooler: Zalman 7000A-Cu w/ arm heatsink
RAM: 1GB Corsair TwinX-3200LL (ECC Registered )
Video: XpertVision Radeon 9800XT Pro 256MB
Monitor: LG Flatron T910B
Storage: 2xSeagate 160GB SATA
Sound: Audigy 2 ZS
Speakers: TAPCO S8 Studio Monitors
Case: Antec PlusView 1000AMG
Mouse: Logitech MX700 Wireless
Keyboard: Microsoft Natural Wireless
All optical Sony DVD burning crap and mod cons.

Runs like a dream.

[Abarsai]

It looks like you didn't hold back. lol

Nice setup! The funest part is hack ing the OS though!

Later,

[Haplo]

1- Chances are you can't afford an alienware computer
2- If you can, you need to just get yourself a nice custom-built system and spend that extra money on a modelling program for TR
3- Alienware are just pretty cases, super-high prices, and a type of speed unheard of in the gaming world. I mean if you have a 1028megs of RAM, your computer will run like a dream no matter what program you use. Just get a good graphics, video, and sound card.

[Kasan Moor]

Vernon, how many did your video card cost?

[Vernon]

770 Australian dollars. That was in July, so the price will have gone down a fair whack by now.

[ko2fan]

I got a pre-built machine from PC World (big corporate overpriced store) for £1000 ($1800 in todays exchange rate, but the average cost of a PC in this country tends to be twice as much as in the US as a norm).

It's a P4 3.6ghz, 1.5gb ram, X800XT PE (PCI Express x16), 250gb sata drive, 19" TFT Monitor, etc.

I can play HL2 on full detail on everything, with max everything and still get 60fps. I beat every single other computer on every benchmark ive run

Funnily enough, Morrowind still stutters sometimes (that engine must be really shit).

Pre-builts are generally not that expensive anymore, you get a nice 3 year warranty and they bundle a shit load of software (most is useless though). Not much reason to custom build these days, unless your wanting to do overclocking. It used to be very important to custom build in the past, when prices were really expensive, but theres not that much difference now.

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garfield

[Vernon]

Yeah Morrowind seems to chew up excessive amounts of memory after about 2 hours playing. I just quit out of the game and load it up again. I imagine the textures are put into the pagefile or RAM and aren't efficiently removed when they are done with.