In an effort to find out a bit more about our vast, seething readership we’re running a series of informal polls in the comments, like the one about games. This one is about your PC. What do you play on? Is it a clockwork steam-powered Pentium from the last century? Is it a mercury-cooled hyper-computer from 2009? Is it a ponce-sculpted Macintosh? Do you have a laptop too? We want to know what your gaming machines are like. And one other question: Do you own a gamepad for your PC?
I’ve currently got a cranky old Celeron 1.6ghz Aria laptop which I use as a second account machine for playing Eve. I also have an Asus EEE which will soon have XP on it for portable game fiddling, and my main maths-horse is a 2.2Ghz Core 2 Duo, 2gb RAM, with a Geforce 8800 GS.
I own three gamepads.
What about you?
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GADS! It’s a US Navy nuclear reactor control room mockup! Or something that looks exactly like one!
Athlon 64 FX Black Edition [Non-OC'd (?!)]
8600 GT 512 Mb
2 Gb Corsair XMS
Asus M2N SLi
74 Gb Raptor and 2x 120 Gb 8Mb cache WD drives from back when they were cool (you remember…)
17″ LCD, Logitech 2.1 speakers
Razer Copperhead
Xbox 360 gamepad with wireless PC adapter. This is the BEST PC gamepad I’ve ever owned, ever.
Actually, this is the computer I use when I’m at work. The days when computers filled entire cathedrals are not over.
Quad @ 2.4, 4 gb ram and an 8800 gts.
XBOX360 pad, a flightstick and a really nice Japanese pad for SHMUPS. Here’s a tip on a good and seriously tripped PC SHMUP, try Trouble Witches :o)
Following PC paid for by my bank several years ago now, when I reclaimed all my bank charges (all 4Ks worth :D )
Core2Duo E6600, 4GB PC6400, XFX 8800GTS 640MB, Asus P5B, Raptor Enterprise 150GB, 2TB Samsung drives, 22″ Mirai and 19″ Samsung TFTs, + my favourite part – Coolermaster Praetorian 732 case, matt black. Reminds of of the Navigators in Dune – black, big and ominous.
In your face Natwest
I’m currently running:
CPU: AMD Athalon 64 X2 3800
GPU: 2x Nvidia 6800gs in SLi
Mobo: ASUS a8n-sli
RAM: 2gb TwinX DDR
HD: 250GB Hitachi
Sound: 6.1 Surround creative speakers (slowly dieing) and Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4
17″ LCD
Logitech G7 Mouse Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 Keyboard
So thats my current PC and I’m probably going to build/buy a new one in the next month or so. Question: Is now a good time to be building, and is it worth doing? Should I wait any longer?
P4 3GHz
1.5GB RAM
7600GT
Abit IE7-E2
250GB Samsung
SyncMaster 753DFX
My only PC is very much showing it’s age, I can’t play some new releases, even on lowest detail. However I can’t afford to upgrade, so I’m reduced to hating pretty much everyone who has a better PC. Especially those of you who have two and both are better than mine FFS!
Athlon XP2500
2 Gig OCZ RAM
Radeon 9600Pro 128
nforce 2 v.2
160Gig 7200rpm ATA HD
Hercules Fortissimo 2 soundcard
Sennheiser HD 457 headphones
Compaq 15″ monitor permanently borrowed from work
an ‘A4 Tech’ keyboard permanently borrowed from work
MS wireless optical mouse v2.0
Linksys wireless card
no brand dvd drive, cd-rw drive& floppy drive
460(?)Watt Chieftec PSU
and about the only good thing about it these days: one of the old school all steel Antec ’server style’ midi cases in gunmetal.
The only thing approaching a gamepad is an old MS Sidewinder2 Forcefeedback joystick.
I might moan about it, but I can’t tolerate anyone else poking fun at it. Goddamned workhorse SOB. Over the years we’ve come to an ‘understanding’: It doesn’t crash and I don’t kick it. So it hasn’t crashed for many years now and I haven’t broken my toes on several tonnes of thick steel casing in several years either.
My 2nd machine is a Xbox360 that bricked with the red rings two days ago.
There is also a Wii gathering dust and a PS2 that’s just been dug out of the cupboard and put back into service playing Timesplitters2 almost exclusively.
-Amd athlon 3500+
-Nvidia 7600 gt
And yes, I do own a gamepad. I got a Logitech Rumblepad 2 for cheaper than the non-rumbley kind, since it came without a box or manual.
Apple Mac powerpc
g4 processor
512 mb RAM
60 gb HDD
every time I touch a Windows PC I fukk-itt-upp! so I end up with an old but usable Mac
Mid ‘08 24″ iMac, 3.06GHz C2D.
4GB RAM.
1TB HDD. My baby. I love her so.
Also have an older 250GB external Maxtor. Six various Powerbooks before that, as well as a Frankensteinian PC box that grew up with me before finally being disposed of.