Celeron 400 + V3K + HalfLife = ?

[Weapon]

I plan on getting the following:

Celeron 400 + 440ZX mobo
64 MB RAM
Voodoo3 3000

What performance will this setup do with HalfLife? Can I get 60fps @ 1024x768?

[KeBoMaN]

Half-life is very hard on your hardware... I don't think you will get 60 at 1024x768... probably around 30 at 800x600..

Kebo

[Weapon]

What hardware would you get to get 60fps @ 1024x768

[Donovan]

It would take an awefull damn lot of power dude. I'm nudgin 40 in blowup.dem at 1024x768 with a voodoo3 3000 and p3-450 @ 558. Now if your talkin like average frames (not hardcore), you might come close to gettin that already with your setup. Although you definately could use more ram.

[This message has been edited by Donovan (edited 03-08-2000).]

[Weapon]

Yes, I'm talking about average fps in normal gameplay, not demo tests like Quake2 crusher or any of that.

Maybe I'll bump up the RAM to 128 MB.

[Machupo]

a BX mobo would probably help quite a bit

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[Weapon]

Isn't a ZX board the same as a BX except for the limited memory capacity and PCI slots?

[KeBoMaN]

No diff. between ZX and BX.. BX can just cache more RAM. ZX is limited to 384mb I think.

Kebo

[Ruffian]

The only difference is the ZX is only limited to 256megs while the BX can have up to 4 double sided dimms (i.e. 512meg.) I know some can have more, but if you read the Abit ZM6 mobo review on anandtech it will explain this ok.

[Bandit_22]

I have a system running at 429MHz (78 FSB) Celeron, 64MB PC133, and Voodoo2 and you will get VERY nice frame rates.

This is not accurate but with timerefresh I get something like ~150fps.

[Pirate]

I don't know about 60fps @1024x768 but you should still get very solid performance with that setup. My Dad's 433 with a Rage128 (which is a good bit slower than the V3 3K) plays HL very smoothly at 1024x768. If you're just worrying about the single player aspect I wouldn't sweat it at all. There's only a few points in the game that bog down like most of the Half-Life demos. I find a good crowded multi-player match to be where the real hardware stress test takes place. And even then you should be fine although I'd recommend dropping your res down a notch for multiplayer.

And odds are pretty good that you could overclock your 400 at least a little, if not quite a good bit depending mostly on your hard drive and other components. 450 (@75MHz fsb) should hopefully be a given. Which motherboard were you looking at? If you're interested in overclocking a Celeron try to find a board with as many fsb speeds between 66 and 100 as possible.