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hi,

what do you think, are my specs good enough to handle FS2004 with (almost) all the sliders set to the max?

my specs:
MSI KT3 Ultra2 motherboard
AMD Athlon 1800XP
512DDR mb ram
GeForce4 Ti4200 128mb
40GB HD @7200RPM

jep,it certainly is.

i use an duron 1,2ghz, a 9700pro and 512megs of DDR-ram.
FS 2004 runs smoothly in 1024*768 with medium to high settings,4*AA,6*anisotropic filtering and a traffic add-on.

Hey Silent, with that spec, I'd really ditch that duron! You'll see a massive improvement.

Ok, Ok, I know I've got a Celeron, but, in a like manner, I've recently tried a 2.4ghz P4 in my machine, It boosted my 3D Mark scores by 110% !

Alas, CFS3 still stuttered !!!!!  :'(

We both seem to have relatively good kit strangled by rather  crap CPU's.  ;)

i know,scania,i'm looking for a cheap (20$ max) Athlon 1700+ or 1800+ @ ebay. actually, wanted to buy a 2700+ ,but this thing is still quite expensive.  :P

Ditch the Duron. I was thinking about buying a Athlon XP 2000 which adds about 750mhz to what I've got now. It also has a 266mhz FSB which is a plus. I've seen it for $119 but I bet I can get it for lower if I phone a bunch of local computer stores.

my current PCs are:

Asus A7N8X Deluxe
AMD Athlon XP 2800+(soon to be overclocked)
GeForce 4 Ti4800 128MB
2x 512MB DDR PC3200
80GB 7200RPM
soon a 15000RPM 18.6GB harddrive
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platnium
and Swiftech Liquid Cooling setup

the older comp:
P4 1.9 Ghz
GeForce 3 Ti(dont know number) 64MB  
1GB of RAM
Santa Cruz Sound card.

Comp I am about to start buying parts for
Dual AMD Athlon MP 2000+
512MB DDR PC3200
80GB harddrive