Upgrade Your Pc, The "Upgrade your PC 4 Oblivion"-Thread Options

[Ambberfox]

we still don't know what type of hardware will be required to run Oblivion smoothly on a PC but it's probably a fact that a lot of people right now are concerned about that their system might be too slow or lack certain other requirements.
What I thought is that anyone who wants to get some advices could post some informations about his system in this thread - only the main hardware-components, please - and then we could try to help that person with deciding what components need an upgrade - or if a completely new system is needed

[Marxist ßastard]

Four networked desktops? If the people behind them don't have any software requirements that tether them to DOS or NT, something you might look into is substituting the machines with thin clients -- ones about the size of a paperback book can be built for around $US250, and if you aren't so adventurous, you could get one pre-built at a fair price. If you want cheaper, then thin chients are the perfect application for any Pentium Pros or K6s you have around.

This would also implement the better part of my "dealing with triviality" idea above, and would mean that system-wide software updates, configuration changes, &c. applied to one machine would take place on all thin clients instantaneously. Of course, I can understand if it's, at the moment, too late to implement something like this (although, as I hinted at before, thin clients are mostly made out of PC hardware) -- just something that you should consider in the future as an interesting solution to a problem that seems to have gotten out of hand in your case.

This post has been edited by Marxist ßastard: Jan 6 2006, 10:12 PM