one thing you will note is that the video + main memory appears to be 512mb-- with no OS overhead, of course.. so presents a limitation in programming that a PC programmer would not have. For example, with some new games more than 1 gig is recommended.
Here are the P3 stats, if anyone wants to get the equivilant teraflops numbers of a modern PC + modern graphics card and add those:
CPU Cell Processor running at 3.2Ghz with 7 special purpose 3.2Ghz processors, capable of 218 gigaflops of performance Backward compatible GPU RSX at 550MHz 1.8 teraflop floating point performance 256Mb XDR main RAM at 3.2 GHz 256Mb of GDDR VRAM at 700Mhz Memory Stick Duo, SD, compact flash memory slots Detachable 2.5 inch hard drive Support for seven Bluetooth controllers Six USB slots for peripherals Supports Blu-ray DVD format System Floating Point Performance of 2 teraflops Communication Ethernet, Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth Output in HDTV resolution up to 1080p as standard
a. You need nowhere near that much for a self-built PC.
b. Do Not by from Ebay, especially not motherboards or Video Cards. Punkbuster...an Anti Cheat Program...bans by Guid Numbers....So theres is a chance that a part over Ebay might have already been baned, and wont work in certain online games.
C. There is a forum just for this its the "PC hardware" forum
cobrax25
Didn't know PUnkbuster bans by those numbers. Smart, but could spell trouble for resale market. Also, you know people who have been punkbusted will be offloading their cards and mb's on the resale market asap. very interesting info.
Blizzard really puts tons of resources into their single player campaign cutscenes in Starcraft, if you haven't already played that-- lot of value their for 10 bux or so, it's so old.
Of course, multiplayer destroyes single in any RTS.
C&C 3 if u want action ...supcom is so slow and just keep slowing down as the game go it just take for ever to play one online game and unit are ordinary..for CoH its an awsome game but far from a conventional RTS u have to capture points on the map in order to build realy anoying and C&C3 is jsut perfect and online is so freaken hard and challengingnerdriot
Sup Comm will get slow on big maps, when hundreds of units are in play, unless you have a fast dual core cpu... but that is because it can get much bigger than the others. You can play on smaller maps, at your option. I would say they are all three great games, in different ways... sup commander is great for the massiveness of the game-- the sky is the limit, and some people actually like long battles that are truly massive in scale. C&C3 and CoH are perhaps faster paced, and much smaller scale. I really like the resource management and size of sup commander, but the visuals are better on C&C3 and CoH. really, in a perfect world you will have all 3.
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