[GoombaTommy]

Hey guys, I'm upgrading my computer in a few weeks. MOHAA runs slow as a butter knife cutting through a frozen block of butter. What would be your recommendations of a good system upgrade for under $600? Im so far lookin at an Asus motherboard w/ AMD Athlon support (1.4Ghz), 512 Ram, 120 GB HD, and a GeForce 3 TI. Right now, my average MOHAA FPS is between 5 and 10 fps. So can a few of you recommend what would be a great system configuration? Thanks guys.

[MMSkyDiver]

In my opinion, i'd say hold off on that 120 Gig HD, that'd put you out about 250.... If you're gonna get a new proccesor, check out the Athlon XP's... Those things gimme a hardon, for about $350, you can get a fast as hell AMD XP 2000+ (1.67 Ghz), spend on some nice RAM that can handle a lil overclocking, graphics card you might have to do some homework on, but that lil setup will get you some nice FPS's.... damn i wish i had money to blow

[GoombaTommy]

hahaha thanks man.

[Refresh_Deamon]

I recomend a G-Force 3 V8200 T5
With my P-4,512mb of DDR Ram and Gf3
I've had liquid-smooth framerates on Omaha...
and I mean on the beach...

[Slanger_us]

I built a cpu for under $400, and it runs MOHAA beautifully. Its got a Shuttle AI61 Slot A Motherboard w/ AMD Athlon 900 CPU, 256MB of ram, 40GB Hard-Drive, and a TNT2 video card with 32MB of ram. That meats all of the recomended requirements of the game. FPS are around 50 to 70 at 800x600.

[[spiewalk]]

make sure you buy an ATI card

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[Captain Canuck]

I'd say a ATI 8500 would be the way to go. Latest tech, but the drivers may be a little flaky (the only draw back which ATI is addressing).

Go with AMD as well, screw Intel and their high prices.

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[sk8save1]

I say go with the highest Athlon XP, Abit RK7A and add the most DDR you can afford. Then get a Geforce 3 or Radeon (I got a GF3 Ti200) while remaining in your budget.

This should keep you goin' for a while.

[Mosquito]

Take a look at the Elitegroup ECS K7S5A motherboard. It's only $99 Cdn ($0.50 American?), which frees up a fair bit of extra coin to jump a step higher up the MHz ramp. Through the extra hundred into a 1.6 GHz Palomino or higher if the price is right. The board is stable, and runs just slightly slower than the MSI KT266A which is at least $130 more expensive. Comes with onboard LAN, which saves on a PCI slot. The onboard video and soundcard suck though, but who the hell uses onboard vid and sound unless they've got an N-Force anyway!!!

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August 19, 1942

[sk8save1]

Is onboard LAN reliable?

[Dodd]

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