Heh PdogNZ your PC is almost the same as mine, sept mines a 1900+, you didnt happen to get yours from the PC company?...
Since my components are all crap ones, dispite there web site listing there suppliers as all top notch ones, i only got my PC from them due to teh component manufacturers... instead of a maxotr HD i got a Seagate.. instead of a Leadtech GC, I got a Chainteck!!!... Ive left it to late to complain... the PC works fine. Ill probably buy a Geforce 4 ina year or 2 any way...
Just to add, you should invest in a graphics card if you havent got one or you have one of the older 8-16meg ones, the 32meg ones are cheap now days and are of good quality for money. If you dont upgrade you cant realy complain if current games dont play well or at all on your machine. Now days graphic cards are more inportant than CPU speed, unless your using programes like 3Dsmax and Director etc which rely on CPU speed and ram. Graphic cards do alot of the work anyway in games.
Im sortta in awe at the lack of knowledge about Computers alot of you guys seem to display. They still manufacture modems that slow?... 3D cards are far faster than 2D cards, however now days they make very few seprerate, there all 2d/3d combos, graphic cards take teh work load off the CPU in calcualting and displaying the 3D information so it can get down to teh nitty gritty of doing the intensive maths not involved with graphics.
The Modem has nothing to do with how a game plays graphicaly, what it does effect is how things move on your screen... an example of this is in Everqeust... say you have an orc moving along the screen, if your net signal is cut off for a second or you get a bunch of packet drops (basicly bits of imformation that never make it to your computer and get lost in the net somewhere) the orc will continue to move along in its last known direction (if the programme has a fuzzy prediction system in it) yor computer is sortta adlibing what the orc is doing since its not getting any new updated info on teh orcs location in 3d space so it keeps moving it forward, but if that orc happened to turn or go another way during teh time there is packet lose or network latency going on (ie Lag) when you finaly get the singal going again the computer has to take teh new location of the orc the server sends it, which results in teh orc suddenly teleporting to a differant spot than where you saw it last... the orcs framerate and every thing else would not be effected by this, it would move and animate as smoothly as your graphics card would allow as your computer would be doing all that it\'s self rather than having to get that information over the network every second from teh server. Play a real online Game to get what i mean like Quake3 EverQuest or DaoC.
