Judges machine specs...

[savage]

The Competition Judges machine specs are as follows...

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Jon
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CPU : Athlon xp 2600+
Memory : 512mb Ram
GPU : Radeon 9700pro
Additional : (force feedback joystick, force feedback wheel)
OS : XP Professional SP2

Dean - Machine #1
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CPU : Athlon 700
Memory : 400 Mg Ram
GPU : nVidia GeForce 4
OS : XP Professional SP2 / Gentoo Linux 2004


Dean - Machine #2
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CPU : P4 2.6 GHz
Memory : 512 Mg Ram
GPU : Intel 82854G graphics card with 512 RAM
OS : XP Home SP2


Sly - Machine #1
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CPU : Intel P4 2.4GHz
Memory : 512MB RAM
GPU : ATI Radeon 9800 XT 256MB
OS : Windows XP Professional SP2

Sly -Machine #2
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CPU : Intel Celeron 500 overclocked to 913MHz
Memory : 512MB RAM
GPU : nVidia GeForce 4 MX440 64MB
OS : Windows XP Home SP2
Additional : Microsoft Sidewinder joystick (with no force feedback).

Tom
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CPU : P4 2.8 GHz
Memory : 512 MB RAM
GPU :GeForce 6800 Ultra
Additional : Logitech Wingman joystick and two different Microsoft Sidewinder gamepads.
OS :


Dom - Machine #1
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CPU : Athlon XP 1.2Ghz
Memory : 512 Ram
GPU :GeForce 3 Ti 200 64MB

OS : Windows 2000 ( Latest SP )/Linux Mandrake 10

Dom - Machine #2
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CPU : Intel Pentium 2.6Ghz
Memory : 512Mb Ram
GPU iS 615 Onboard 32MB
OS : Windows 2003 Server ( Latest SP )

Dom - Machine #3
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CPU : Intel Pentium 2.8Ghz
Memory : 512 Mb RAM
GPU :ATI Radeon IGP 354 64MB ( Plays HL2 )
OS : Windows XP ( Latest SP )/Linux Mandrake 10
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I forgot to ask some of the guys for their OS, but I expect it will be Windows 2000 or XP. Either way I will update this news item as soon as they let me know.

Uploading Demos
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Jon "Tux" Walton has gracefully given us some upload space on his server.
If you are entering the competition please upload your entries to <a href='http://www.vadertrophy.com/filemanager/'>www.vadertrophy.com/filemanager/</a>
and use the username = PGD & password = PGD ( the password is case sensitive ).
So all entrants will upload their entries on or before the 15th of March.
Once uploaded you will not be able to delete the files, so if you need to upload a new version of your game you will need to contact Tux.

Since these games will be Open Source, I am looking into creating a SourceForge project that will host all the entries ( source and binaries ). I am waiting to hear back from the SF project acceptance team. In the mean time please send me a private message and let me know what your SourceForge login is if you have it. If we get approval from SF, the entries will then be uploaded to SF and once source code is submitted, that will also be committed to SF.

[JernejL]

excuse me - misc question, but how do you overclock celeron 500 to 913 MHz??

[tux]

change the bus speed / cpu multiplyer in the bios or jumpers on the motherboard. the older celerons were quite overclockable

[Sly]

excuse me - misc question, but how do you overclock celeron 500 to 913 MHz??

ASUS motherboards allow jumperless overclocking. Just go into the BIOS settings and select manual CPU speed settings. The clock multiplier is locked, but you can change the clock speed. I cannot remember what the clock speeds are. I overclocked it the day I got it several years ago and it has stayed that way ever since.

I've even played around with overclocking my P4 2.4GHz, but the difference in speed is not as noticeable as the change from 500MHz to 913MHz.

[LP]

Wow, so many machines running Win2003 and XP... how much did it cost to buy all the licenses? (if you did )

[Sly]

I know mine are legit. Cost me a few hundred dollars too. I tell people that all the software on my machines is legit and they think I'm crazy.

[WILL]

All the software on my linux boxes are legit

[tux]

All the software on my linux boxes are legit

thats because its free

[JernejL]

change the bus speed / cpu multiplyer in the bios or jumpers on the motherboard. the older celerons were quite overclockable

there is no way to overclock celeron 500 to 900mhz, i had two of them and they went up to 580 and more was all freezing.

[tux]

it must have overheated then.

trust me, with the older celerons it was possible to overclcok that much