the OMFG COMP SPECS thread

[L3ftisM]

Lefty what's the big wheel for? Is that how you strafe in Quake?

hehehehehee... no, i have foot pedals on the floor for doing that. I use the wheel for pole position! woohoo..!

[Monster]

My RAM owns all of yours.

[foq]

512mb is all you need, espically with no antivirus program. har har har

[Monster]

Not if you are going to run high-end games + lots of other applications running in the background.

[foq]

How about...
high-end games + nothing in the background...
??

[foq]

NOTE: No matter how powerful your computer is: clean system tray = better performance.

[Phenom]

I got the 1.5GB mark for system ram

would be 2.256GB but no more ram slots

My case owns your case monster. and if you dont believe me, ask somebody.

[Solecord]

Why would you want to run a high end game and other apps in the background? If you're playing a game, you shouldn't be defragging your system or playing full-screen porn or editing digital audio files... you should be playing your game and that's it. WTF is wrong with you?

[Baker]

Blows my mind when ppl show up with IM open, torrents downloading/upload, large file download taking place or otherwise having obvious performance killers in the background.

Makes no sense to me.

Especially, if it is something like CA or Rocket Arena -- where you are gonna get owned if that is happening.

[Canadian*Sniper]

lol I usually have WMP or iTunes playing and have Gaim running while on Quake.

[Monster]

Quake doesn't take much to run. It won't matter if there is other stuff in the background.

[tical]

my background apps when running quake

bit torrent/winamp/irc/ventrilo/aim/yahoo

pq_maxfps 350 works good for me

ohyeah my specs

amd xp+ 2400(2ghz) 1gig pc2700, nvidia fx 5600

my pc is old but it still runs quake to own all of u

[Phenom]

The typical background software that runs while I play quake is usually

FireFox Bwoser (with a few open tabs)x2
Adobe CS2 9.0 (With few pics open)
Search & Destroy
Deamon Tools
PeerGuardian
MSN Messenger
Azeures torrent manager
WMP 10 (Just idling because I can.)
Telnet session to my Bomber server
WST_FTP connected to Bomber server, Killingpixels.com, SNS site & Bomber site
Conquer Online (Sometimes)
Couple RAR files
Fruityloops (Sometimes)
Bryce 5.5 (Simetimes)

I also run GLQuake in a window at 1280x1024 32BBP

My PC has no problem having this open and playing Quake multiplayer.
Maybe I just have a good setup, I do read reviews on hardware so I know what works and what doesn't

[foq]

We aret talking about running Quake with things in the system tray. We are talking about running new games with stuff in the ststem tray.

[Phenom]

Ya I can still do that no problem