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Help and Support Forums => Technical Support => Topic started by: Tozza on August 24, 2001, 03:21:00 PM
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This is the scenario:
You have the following hugley under powered Pc
Amd 333mhz
48 meg
voodoo3
Ah is just about playable
You have £100 in your pocket ($175)
what single purchase will make the greatest improvement
(pls dont say a ZX Spectrum -or commodore 64 for US readers-lol)
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Also I have Logitech wingman extreme.
generally speaking,do you sacrifice general stick quality when you go for force feedback:ie-is it a "gimmick" or is it worth it?
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With a system like that, you don't buy a jstick. I don't know what prices are like over there, but your first purchases should be MOBO, and CPU, oh and RAM. Perhaps you should consider buying the MOBO now, when u have some more $$ saved, buy the CPU, and then well the RAM is dirt cheap these days.
you may even need a case as well...
FF IMO is a gimick, and I've tried both FF and non FF of the same stick. Tis a waste o money for a jstick. For a steering wheel I think its likely awesome though +)
SKurj
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Thanking you kindly sir
Tozza
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When you say 333 Mhz, do you mean k6-2, or k6-2+ 3dnow?
Honestly I wouldn't put a ton of money into it, but I would upgrade the RAM & the CPU. You may have to do a bios upgrade to use the faster chips, but it's possible up to a 550 mhz may work. RAM will help somewhat as well.
Since the k6 series was discontinued recently it is possible to find them dirt cheap. Ram is also very cheap.