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Old 12-09-2004, 12:57 PM   #1
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OMG the detail in HL2!!!!!! L@@K!!!!!!!!

Is that a Dell or what? Look at the seperate components!

Sorry about the links, the board wont let em post that many pics, but I wanted you to see the detail!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...office0000.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...office0004.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...office0002.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...office0005.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...office0006.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...r/8201cd11.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...r/b20e7580.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...office0007.jpg


There ya have the case, PSU, memory, Vid Card, Drives and so on!
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Old 12-09-2004, 01:46 PM   #2
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Yea, I noticed that too. Only problem is that the video card is upside down.
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Old 12-09-2004, 02:24 PM   #3
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Is it? Looks like my 9700Pro?
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Old 12-09-2004, 03:14 PM   #4
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That's really nice detail. All the labels/electronic components and everything.
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that is madness... unbelievable, looks like far cry got shown up

I think you just convinced me to buy it.


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Old 12-09-2004, 03:31 PM   #6
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yea its unreal, spanks Farcry adn makes doom3 look silly. Watch the trailer, it pays attention to sound and visual details
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Old 12-09-2004, 05:25 PM   #7
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Oh look, a VIA chipset on the motherboard.

First one to correctly ID all the parts wins a cigar
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Old 12-09-2004, 05:26 PM   #8
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Well it definitely looks like a Dell with an ATi video card.
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Old 12-09-2004, 05:32 PM   #9
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yea i noticed that it was a dell too when i played that map
ahahha at least it makes sense to shoot it
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Old 12-09-2004, 06:00 PM   #10
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Ya, but we're gonna have to pay shipping.
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Old 12-09-2004, 07:31 PM   #11
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ok.. WOW that is a rediculous level of detail .. for half a second there i thought i was looking at photos (the bit about dell parts confused me intially, and that carpet looks *exactly* like in my conservatory, expect that one is a little darker) -- i have seen worse pictures taken by cheapo digital cameras than that, although it is clearly still not 'real lookin' (the front is rather lazily non-3d, and the HSF looks farrr to shiny, although the PCI slots and main MB chips are 3d from the looks of it! (most ppl playing wouldn't even know what a PCI slot looked like and they still put in the detail) - it is still a big step towards it)
..i haven't been following the gaming world for some time.. latest i have is my trusty ol' N64, and i was pretty happy with how that looked for the most part .. thank god atleast, it means i will be happy with a DX8 card rather than spending $200 every year trying to keep up.. anyway i think i need to get my cheapo DX8 card! (btw, any chance of showing me what that would look like in DX8- most other screenshots i've seen look fairly similar in DX8 and 9, with just a few subtle lighting changes (water-scences aside-- which look *awful* in DX8!)

"Oh look, a VIA chipset on the motherboard.

First one to correctly ID all the parts wins a cigar"

u could just go to the dell site perhaps lol.

can u read the rails on the psu? lol
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Old 12-09-2004, 07:35 PM   #12
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I'm 99% sure that's an Axio PSU. It starts with an A, and looks like the same rest of the letters, and the proportions are correct to an Axio
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Old 12-09-2004, 07:57 PM   #13
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Cool

Ha ha ha ha

The jokes on me. Proberly should not admit this, however I was looking at the pictures and wondering why anyone would take photos of their building a computer????? Did not make sense to me.

After reading some of the posts realized my mistake.........they are actual pictures from the game.......not photos at all.......ha ha ha ..

Course will admit...wear tri focals and all and am retired, but even so.......they still look like actual photos,,,,,maybe with a 2 to 3 megpixl camera. NICE.


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Old 12-09-2004, 08:29 PM   #14
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Yea its an axio PSU and the dell look alike is called Beefy Computers...lol
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Remember that this is CounterStrike Source, not Half Life2 - they use the same Source graphics engine though.

Wow...amazing. Also, a random comment, but you sure like the Bulpop don't you?

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Whooa! When I opened the first image I actually thought I was looking at a digital photo of a computer for a moment. Abosolutely amazing. Unfortunately I am still in the stone age with my current setup. (check my sig )
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Whooa! When I opened the first image I actually thought I was looking at a digital photo of a computer for a moment. Abosolutely amazing. Unfortunately I am still in the stone age with my current setup. (check my sig )
Not compared to me.

600mhz Celeron. (No more specs needed. That sums everything up I think.)
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Old 12-09-2004, 10:59 PM   #18
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Not compared to me.

600mhz Celeron. (No more specs needed. That sums everything up I think.)
We have two options.
1) Parallel process our computers
2) Form a support group.
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We have two options.
1) Parallel process our computers
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Well, what do you think?
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Old 12-10-2004, 07:55 AM   #20
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How about mow a few yards and upgrade.
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I took a screanshot of me shooting the Dell, so that the front cover is flying off and its a few inches in the air. Put it as my desktop because I always have problems with Dells.
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Old 12-10-2004, 12:55 PM   #22
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I had my Dell 4500 for 5 years and not one problem....lol
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Old 12-10-2004, 04:01 PM   #23
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Remember that this is CounterStrike Source, not Half Life2 - they use the same Source graphics engine though.
Although they are both run on the same engine, there are varying differences. This computer does not appear anywhere in HL2
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hm.... when i first viewd the first pic i asked myself "why is he posting computer parts when the thread is about hl2?" I was so convinced that it was real, that i didn't realize the rest of the stuff in the pic... that blows me away... I think i've been convinced to buy it as well.. As long as it runs on my system (below)
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You should be good to go, maybe not full detail, but playable definitely
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Wow, the third shot down is a CoolerMaster HS/fan!!
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Although they are both run on the same engine, there are varying differences. This computer does not appear anywhere in HL2
That's why Half Life 2 is by far the best game both in graphics and in game play voted by gamers this year

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Old 12-13-2004, 08:25 AM   #28
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I cant truly play until Xmas, I jsut built my new rig and the wife bought HL2 for xmas
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nice pics yeah i always look at the comps in HL2 but those are nice pics. yeah once u take a screenshot were do u look at it

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Old 12-15-2004, 01:41 AM   #30
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Just look around in the hl2 directory I dont know the exact name of the folder but its in there somewhere.

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