CPL SequelBits

[CSN NewsBot]

Yep, more bits of the same brand. First up, The Cyberathlete Professional League has announced the specs for the Summer computers to be used with CS' $100,000 tourney.

• processor - 2.4ghz northwood pentium® 4 processor
  
  
• motherboard - d850emv2
  
  
• memory - 512mb pc800 rdram
  
  
• video card - geforce 4 4600ti
  
  
• hard drive - 30gb ata100 7200 rpm hdd
  
  
• dvd-rom - gd-7500 or toshiba sd-m1612
  
  
• nic - on board intel 10/100
  
  
• sound card - on board adi
  
  
• operating system - windows 98 se

Windows 98 SE? Whatever floats your boat, I guess.



In semi-related news, the CPL's Kimberly Vizurraga, VP of sales and marketing, has been interviewed over at AVault. AVault, of course, is owned by the CPL's parent company.

[MikeJ]

I think its a safe bet CS runs best on win98 as long as it aint crashing...



But you never here about compatibility issues, aiming/mouse issues, etc with win98. Obviously the computer only has to operate for several hours at a time if that.



The prise for 2000 windowsXP client licences is insanely rediculous btw.

[Jsunu]

Fook that reminds me.. ive got to get a new comp

[FLeK0]

What a poor PC.. ;P Good for thoose llama CS players in the n00b league :))

[SinaC]

Why... Why do they need a GF4 Ti 4600, or a 2.4GHZ processor? This is a game based off the HL Engine from many moons ago. I would have suggested an sweet ass soundcard. Oh well...

[MikeJ]

fastest (as far as home PC standards) CPU and video card = poor PC?



You cant get much better than that with a single CPU system for gaming.

[Jsunu]

Hey mikej how fast do those industrial comps go???

[MikeJ]

sw1tch, they also play other games at the CPL. With stats like those it evens the playing field assuring lag spikes caused by hardware is NOT a problem. This is afterall...the "professional" league.



You don't see t-balls in the MLB do you ;p

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CrazyNewbieGuy, depends on what you mean. You can get a nice 106 UltraSPARC III Cu 900-MHz processors with 2TB of memory system. Or have a fat cluster based super computer that takes up 2 basketball court sized labs and has 12.3 trillion calculations per second of computing power. You got $110 million dollars?

[phantom]

Why in the world would they need a DVD drive for playing CS...?

[MikeJ]

It was probably put in for installing purpouses. Some apps come on like 5 CDs, but also come with just 1 DVD. Makes installing and setting up the system MUCH faster and easier. Although most games only come on CD-Roms...who knows. I'm no DVD drive expert, maby they read faster? ;0

[nimrod]

i wonder if the winners get to keep the computers :/

[MPZ.Duke]

MikeJ wrote..

You can get a nice 106 UltraSPARC III Cu 900-MHz processors with 2TB of memory system. Or have a fat cluster based super computer that takes up 2 basketball court sized labs and has 12.3 trillion calculations per second of computing power. You got $110 million dollars?

Do you think it would run Doom 2?

[MikeJ]

i don't know, would probably run like shit, thats a pretty intense game.

[ploclyn`]

CS > Doom 2



kthx.

[Solid Snake 88]

Wow, they really went for top-of-the-line didn't they? Everything... except the sound card. :/



Thats the thing, a good sound card is required for CS, whereas a P4 2.4a and GF4 Ti4600 aren't. :/