Because I never really learned about 3D rendering, I decided that I want to learn OpenGL. But there are 2 problems:
1) my graphics cards have bad performance, and
2) they only support ogl1.2 and 2.1
Also, I can't play newer games with my cousin, like GTA4, or even "simple" games like Minecraft. It barely reaches 7fps at lowest with Optifine and with fastcraft
So I need to somehow upgrade my rig.
1) my graphics cards have bad performance, and
2) they only support ogl1.2 and 2.1
Also, I can't play newer games with my cousin, like GTA4, or even "simple" games like Minecraft. It barely reaches 7fps at lowest with Optifine and with fastcraft
So I need to somehow upgrade my rig.
I have a few computers that could be "recycled" :
- HP Compaq dc5750 small form factor (my main computer)
- CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 4000+
- Board: idk, but it has an AMD chipset
- GPU: on-board ATI Radeon XPress 1550/200M
- RAM: unknown 2x1G <800Mhz + GEIL Black Dragon 800Mhz (with epic glowing red leds
courtesy of my cousin) 2x2G dual-channel DDR2 - PSU: idk, some propertiary 230W HP
- Disk: an old no-name 80G (corrupted) + 250G WD Blue, both SATA
- "external" floppy drive
- that black box with 2 blue strips
- CPU: Intel Pentium something 64bit
- Board: ASUS P5KPL-AM SE
- GPU
- Gigabyte ATI Radeon X1550 (sorry, Hungarian page)
- (this should be in it, but it's not working here) ASUS Nvidia GTS 640
- RAM: CSX 2G 800Mhz + Kingmax 1G 800Mhz, DDR2
- PSU: micase SR400 (combined load 200W, max output 400W)
- Disk
- some crappy and faulty samsung 160G SATA
- Western Digital Caviar WD400 40G ATA [2004 MAY 08] (from my old computer that's not on the picture)
- CPU: Intel Celeron 899Mhz, overclocked to 1033Mhz
- Board: unknown
- GPU: Nvidia Gforce 2
- RAM: 512M unknown
- PSU: unknown broken 250W
- The floppy drive was taken out of this computer (that's on top of my main computer)
- HP Compaq nc4200
- CPU: Pentium M (mobility) 2.4Ghz?
- GPU: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900/915GM
- RAM: unknown 512M (504M + 8M video)
- Disk: unknown propertiary 60G with S.M.A.R.T. technology (which is annoying because it renders the drive as faulty)
- Compaq Contura 4/25cx
- CPU: Intel i486? 25Mhz, 16bit
- GPU: none?
there's no VESA mode, that's for sure - RAM: 4M
- Disk: a whopping ~200Megabytes
- OS: German DOS with Hungarian Windows 3.1
So basically I want to recycle the above computers, so I could build one that is good enough for programming (or playing Minecraft with better than ~7fps...).
The problems I have with the above stuff is that I can't easily exchange parts. If I could use the GTS 640 in my main computer, I wouln't need to recycle my computer collection. But because 1) it doesn't fit in, 2) the PSU is too weak, and 3) I can't just swap power supplies, so I may need to do some trickery I don't have idea about.
Basiclly I just want to play a bit newer games, like GTA4, or even Minecraft (at least with 40fps, just be please higher than ~7fps)
So any ideas? I want to recycle as much stuff as possible before buying anything new, because I can't spend that much money to buy more than 2 new decent-quality components.
