BF2 by far :D

ive just got a new pc, but one of my sticks of ram was faulty and I send it back for a new one, leaving me with just 1 gig for a week. Let me tell you, ram is by far the most important thing if you dont have enough of it. You can turn settings down in games if your graphics card of cpu isnt fast enough, but for general programs, especially to do with music and video, ram is essential. I use soundforge and cubase, and it became such a pain to use with just 1 gig. even 2 gigs now a days isnt to brilliant, using photoshop with files over 200mb in size still slows your pc down.

Unless your doing both at the same time, dual core isnt a real problem at the mo as its only games that have been programmed to fully use them, same with your graphics card really.

hope tht helps.

$150 for HL:E2...someones been taking you for a ride mate. Its £25 here in the uk for the next episode, and with news of the new 9800 gts coming out by the end of the year, your looking at a good price drop for the 8800 series in the next couple of months.

At the end of the day the choice is upto you on graphics cards.You wont notice much difference between these cards. +10 or 20 fps here (but that doesnt matter if your getting around 40-70 fps for each game anyway) and there, some games will run better with 1 card, the others with the other card. 

ATI + hl:e2 does sound good, but if you read the story on gamespots news, many people who bought the last ati card because they got half life 2 with it were waiting months to a whole year for their copy of the game.

I personal like forza 2 way better but Im still going to get Dirt cause it is a fun Rally game but if they ever did make rally sport challange 3 it would destroy dirt.

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lol yeah but then if they brought out rally sport challenge 3, there would be a dirt 2 and so on.

Allthough these two games have cars in and are racing sims, they differ in style of racing so really there two different games. Mario Cart and PGR are both racing games but you  wouldnt compare them (ok bit of a radical difference but you get my point)

The Elite universe contains eight galaxies, each galaxy containing 256 planets to explore. Due to the limited capabilities of 8-bit computers, these worlds are procedurally generated: A single seed number run through a fixed algorithm the appropriate number of times and creates a sequence of numbers determining each planet's complete composition (position in the galaxy, prices of commodities, and even name and local details - text strings are chosen numerically from a lookup table and assembled to produce unique descriptions for each planet). This means that no extra memory is needed to store the characteristics of each planet, yet each is unique and has fixed properties. Each galaxy is also procedurally generated from the first.

However, the use of procedural generation created a few problems. There are a number of poorly located systems that can be reached only by galactic hyperspace - these are more than 7 light years from their nearest neighbour, thus trapping the traveller. Braben and Bell also had to check all of the system names to ensure that none of them were four-letter words. When they found that one procedurally generated galaxy contained a planet called Arse, they had to delete that entire galaxy. (While there were reports that some players did indeed find a planet "Arse", the algorithm used by the game yields no such planet.[4] However, in the eighth galaxy, there is a planet "Rear",[5] said to be scourged by evil disease, which may have prompted such rumours.) The generation process also created some notably odd descriptions of the planets' inhabitants - since the adjective list contained "carnivorous" and the noun list contained "arts graduates", it was possible to land on a planet inhabited by carnivorous arts graduates.[3]

Since there is no memory overhead for creating extra worlds, the game was originally intended to contain 248 (approximately 282,000,000,000,000) galaxies. The number was limited to eight when Acornsoft noted that such a gigantic number would make the artificiality of the game universe evident to the player.

Incase you cant be arsed to read that, this game originally had 282,000,000,000,000 different galaxys. This game came out in 1984 and was only a few kilobytes. beat that.

[QUOTE="thirstychainsaw"]

Lying about hardware isn't new.

Sony: DREs? What DREs?

Nintendo: When you see Wii games, you'll say wow!

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I did say wow :P

But right after that , I said "wtf is that" 

haha classic :D