Quinns says:

I only have a Lenovo X61S right now. It’s the saddest thing. 1.8GHz processor, 1GB ram, onboard graphics, Vista.

One day I’ll make a return to Having A Goddamn PC and it will be beautiful.

July 7th, 2008 at 9:09 am

simonkaye says:

I do most of my gaming on:
an AMD Athlon64 3200+ (overclocked to 2.2ghz)
with two gigs of RAM
256MB radeon 1950PRO
and a nice 19″ monitor.

But I also play a bit on my newish laptop, which is really for work – a vista running, dual-core affair with minimalistic graphics (ATI 1100).

July 7th, 2008 at 9:16 am

GibletHead2000 says:

I’ve got a quad-core Q6600 (overclocked from 2.4 to 3.4Ghz), with an 8800 Ultra and 4Gb of RAM. I don’t really need all that ram or CPU for playing games, but I do a lot of work (compiling code) on my machine…

I do have a cheap PS2-style gamepad, but I rarely use it… I prefer keys. I have a wheel (Microsoft Force Feedback) and a fancy joystick (Saitek X52) that I use sometimes though.

July 7th, 2008 at 9:20 am

Cargo Cult says:

Mid-range, late-2007 Apple iMac. Do I win?

(Alternate machine is an early-2006 MacBook Pro. No gamepads here. Winner!)

July 7th, 2008 at 9:21 am

Ross B says:

Athlon 3500 2.2hz, 7800GT, 2Gig Ram WinXP with an Ole Gravis Exterminator Digital game pad (Not dual analogue… one terrible analogue and one 8-way hat switch)

And a Compaq Laptop with 512 ram and a Dual Core athlon something running winXP

July 7th, 2008 at 9:22 am

Jesucristo says:

I have a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k

July 7th, 2008 at 9:23 am

ImperialCreed says:

Mine’s self-built, and gets upgraded about once every 8 months (not completely, but I might swap in a new component or two). Currently it’s a Core 2 Duo E6420 (2.13GHz) plugged into an Abit IL9 Pro mobo with a Dabs Value 256mb 8600GTS and 4Gb of RAM. I mainly run XP, though I dabble with Vista on a backup drive.

I own precisely zero gamepads. There’s only one game I own (Race 07) that truly needs one, and I never play it.

July 7th, 2008 at 9:23 am

skillian says:

PC:

Athlon 4400+
2 GB
512MB 7900 GT

Slightly overclocked and runs everything I want it to pretty nicely.

Media centre

Athlon 3000+
1 GB
Onboard Nvidia 6150 GFX

Works surprisingly well for casual stuff and old school games.

I also have two gamepads (360).

July 7th, 2008 at 9:26 am

Mark says:

My primary machine is a newish 15″ MacBook Pro (2.5GHz, 4GB RAM, 8600M GT 512MB, 1440×900)

Machine before that was a 12″ Powerbook (1.33GHz, 756MB RAM, Geforce FX Go5200 64MB, 1024×768)

First laptop was a 16″ Sony Vaio (1.6GHz, 512MB RAM, Mobility Radeon 7500 32MB, 1600×1200 [needless to say I miss this res])

Don’t really use desktops down to a lack of space, but my last one was an AMD 2100XP (1.7GHz? 512MB RAM, something like a GF4 Ti4200, usually run at 1280×1024)

The current MacBook Pro is easily the best machine I’ve had for gaming (relative to current games etc) can’t quite do Crysis adequately but it can run Supreme Commander and Trials 2 on the highest settings which is the fat of my gaming. (If anyone has any tips for optimizing performance with MBPs for Windows gaming I’d welcome it, especially getting it to recognise over 3GB of RAM, though I hear that’s impossible).

I tend to boot into windows exclusively for most gaming, but some of those recent little games on RPS like Knytt Stories I run through Paralells (http://paralells.com/).

July 7th, 2008 at 9:27 am

espy says:

Just bought a new notebook:

Asus V1Sn

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7700 (2.4 GHz)
Nvidia Geforce 9500M GS, 512 MB VRAM (DDRII)
3072 MB DDR2-667 (2048 1024MB)
250 GB HDD 5.400 rpm SATA

I’m still waiting for updated Omega drivers for the card, since there aren’t any current official ones and I can’t be bothered to muck around with inf files right now. It should do Trials 2 at highest settings (see Mark’s comment with his MBP and an older Geforce card) but due to the old drivers it won’t. At least I hope it’s the drivers 0_o

The native resolution is 1680×1050, which is ridiculous, you can’t really play modern 3D stuff at that resolution, even with a card as new as the 9500. Don’t get a 15.4″ notebook with that resolution, trust me. Otherwise: great little thing.

July 7th, 2008 at 9:31 am

Tacticus says:

e2160
2GB of ram
1TB of hdd space
x1950pro (probably get a 9600gt soon)
got a gamepad and a joystick though both are in boxes 2600km away
on top of this i have a fileserver a vm box and a decent router and the odd few embedded machines
2 laptops an original blackbook (2.0GHz core duo 2GB of ram and 250GB hdds (last 2 upgraded later)) and an asus eee 701

July 7th, 2008 at 9:32 am

Adam Bloom says:

I have an iMac.

It’s blueberry.

(Okay, serious now)

20″ Intel iMac, Core 2 Duo, 2 gigs RAM, 256mb ATI x1600. Running OS 10.4 and XP Home.

July 7th, 2008 at 9:37 am

Kelduum says:

(Deep breath…)
AMD Opteron 165 overclocked to 2.4Ghz
4GB of DDR400 Ram
nVidia GeForce 8800GT 512MB (Overclocked)
MSI K8N Diamond Plus Motherboard
WD Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM HD
Seagate 500GB HDD
2TB of Network Storage on Windows Home Server
Dell 2405FPW 24″ Widescreen Panel & 40″ Samsung LCD HDTV (for watching films)
Auzentech X-Mystique with Dolby Digital Live connected to home cinema
Logitech diNovo Laser Bluetooth Keyboard/Mouse
Xbox 360 Wireless Pads (Via the wireless adapter thing)
And running Vista Ultimate x64

The CPU could do with upgrading at some point (quad core seems to be the way to go), but everything else tends to be ok.

I also have a nasty cheap ‘Digimate’ laptop, which gets the job of a second machine for Eve, and an EEE900, which does as a nice portable Eve/Web/Random thing.

July 7th, 2008 at 9:39 am

Biggles says:

Lightweight laptop is a 14″ samsung X05 1.4 Ghtz, 760MB ram, onboard graphics with a big hole in the side where the broken dvd drive used to be. Good for old/indie games, web and day to day work and that but not much else.

Heavy laptop is a sony vaio 1.8 Ghtz, 2GB ram, 15″ widescreen with a GeForce 6 Go which actually runs TF2 and its ilk pretty well but drains the battery like a madman.

I try to keep my OS pretty lean and these two do fine by me. Maybe when I have a dependable income/somewhere to put it I’ll buy a big desktop machine with oodles of monitors and all the other bits though.

July 7th, 2008 at 9:42 am

Joe says:

Well, my work PC is an eight-core test rig with triple 8800 Ultras in SLI and eight gigs of RAM, but it isn’t representative of what I game on. I just like to boast.

Home PC is a dual-core, 3 GB RAM and a 7900 which I’ll eventually upgrade when I finish building a new PC for the missus.

I do have a laptop, but it’s an EEE PC 701. Good for Cave Story and that’s it.

Gamepads? Sure, I have one. An XFX X-Gear POS. I don’t like using it though. I wouldn’t take a knife to a gun fight, so why would I take a gamepad to a PC? If I want that type of experience then I’ll play on a console. The rest of the time I expect a PC game to be made for standard PC inputs – it’s the one thing on a PC which is constant across all users.

In fact, I’ve only ever used it to play Prince of Persia: SOT – and even then I finished it with keyboard first.

July 7th, 2008 at 9:48 am

roryok says:

PC: Custom Built
CPU: Athlon 64 3200+
Mobo:/b> Gigabyte
RAM: 3GB (512+512+2048)
GFX: Leadtek 9600GT 512MB
Storage: 820GB (250+250+320)
Display: 19″ Samsung Monitor
OS: Windows XP

The Custom built rig is an odd mix. Originally it was 1GB, 500GB and an X800XL. I needed more RAM so I threw in another 2GB a while back. Then recently I decided to upgrade. I bought a 9600GT and an Akasa 80Plus 600W PSU to power it. I also bought a silent case and CPU fan (Zalman) and a new 320GB HD. That would be all I’d ever need I figured. However, having tried to play crysis again I’ve discovered that the old reliable athlon 3200+ just isnt up to the job. I’m planning to get a new Dual or Quad core chip and Mobo and RAM to match in the near future but right now I’m flat broke. I also want to wait and see what happens in mobo technology with energy saving stuff, and EFI.

Laptop: 17″ Macbook Pro
CPU: Intel Core2Duo 1.87 Mhz
Mobo:/b> Dunno, Apple I guess
RAM: 2GB
GFX: ATI Radeon x1600XT
Storage: 320GB (Upgraded that myself from 120GB)
Display: 17″
OS: Dualboot Windows / Ubuntu

Although I’d normally never betray my PC brethren by going for a smelly Mac, someone offered me a second-hand Macbook Pro for a really good price (and no it wasn’t stolen). I wasn’t sure until I read up on how easy it was to install XP. I ran XP and OSX side by side for a while but eventually gave up on OSX, wiped it completely and installed XP and Ubuntu. For me, OSX is just an ‘easier’ version of windows. Sure its ‘easier’ to do a lot of things, but its also nearly impossible to do a lot of more complicated things that us computer geeks like to do.

July 7th, 2008 at 9:52 am

Colthor says:

Desktop:
Core2Duo E6300 @ 2.7GHz
2GB DDR2-800 (@ 772 for CPU OC)
2xX1900XT in Crossfire.
Plus all the usual gubbins, and watercooled for quietness. Runs XP Pro x64.

Laptop:
Dell Inspiron 1720 with a 1.6GHz Core2 (T2330 IIRC), 2GB RAM and Intel X3100 onboard graphics.
Native resolution 1920×1200, which it doesn’t do much gaming at, but that’s not what it was bought for. Runs Vista Home Premium.

I’ve got an original full-sized X-Box gamepad.

July 7th, 2008 at 9:56 am

ligurmatic says:

I have a poncy Mac Pro:

CPU Quad core 2.8 Xeon
Video 8800GTS 512MB
Memory 8Gb
HD 250Gb for Vista 64bit, 500Gb for Mac OS
Monitor 20″ widescreen
Pad I have a PS2-USB adaptor, but I almost never use it

July 7th, 2008 at 10:00 am

Skalpadda says:

Athlon 3200+
2GB RAM
Radeon 1950pro

Looking at upgrading as soon as I feel confident I don’t have to starve for a month for it.

I don’t own a gamepad, but I do have a joystick for playing them old space sims (was there even any good space sims made after XvT/XWA?).

July 7th, 2008 at 10:03 am

Gap Gen says:

For me, OSX is just an ‘easier’ version of windows. Sure its ‘easier’ to do a lot of things, but its also nearly impossible to do a lot of more complicated things that us computer geeks like to do.

You mean like ssh into a computer cluster to write some code in emacs and compile it with mpicc? Can you do that on vanilla XP? I know that Ubuntu can, but still. I do like OSX after having used it for a long time, particularly as Vista is kinda a step backwards.

And Skalpadda – Freespace 2?

July 7th, 2008 at 10:07 am

polar says:

My everything machine:
Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz
1.5 GB ram
600GB of hard disk space
8800GT (512 MB)
Old 17” CRT and usual peripherals.
A rather mismatched setup, owing to piecewise upgrades since it was first built in 2005. Dual boots XP and Ubuntu.
Crysis is virtually unplayable at high (1024×768) when there’s any action on screen. Runs everything else OK, though.

There’s also an old Pentium 2 (128 MB ram, 20 GB hdd and an old 4mb svga “video adaptor”) lying in the corner that I use to experiment with Linux.

July 7th, 2008 at 10:08 am

groovychainsaw says:

E6600 core 2 duo, 8800gt, 2GB 800mhz mem, 21″ screen, XP, xbox 360 pad, bit overkill for playing warcraft tho! ;-)

July 7th, 2008 at 10:11 am

aldo says:

It’s a good thing I still have the receipt for my PC handy to copy it, as I can never remember the specs offhand….
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750
Corsair Dominator TWIN2X6400C4D 2048MB,
XFX GeForce 8800GTS 580M 320MB XXX
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM
Creative SB X-FI Xtreme Gamer
23″ LCD widescreen (16:10) monitor & a 19″ (I think) Iiyama CRT

A PS2 gamepad with adaptor thingy
An, ummm, something or other PC gamepad from 4 years ago
Logitech Formula steering wheel (cheapy crappy one)
Old Saitek Cyborg 3d joystick (never used nowadays)

I have a work laptop (IBM T43) which occasionally sees games (mostly GalCiv2, Rise of Nations, but also Half Life 2 for a while) played on it.

July 7th, 2008 at 10:11 am

Ketch says:

My oldest working system is:
Windows XP Home
AMD Athlon 64 3500 2.2Ghz
1.5 GB Ram PC3200
Nvidia Geoforce 8800GTS 325MB
200GB HDD

My current system (laptop):
Windows Vista Ultimate
Intel Centrino core 2 2.2ghz
Nvidia Mobile 8600M GS 256MB
2gb Ram
2X80GB HDDs

My system I’m building next week:
Windows Vista Ultimate
Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0ghz
4GB Ram
ATI Radeon 4870 512MB
500GB HDD
And I’m buying a 22″ LG widescreen monitor for this new system too!

I have a wired Xbox 360 controller :P

July 7th, 2008 at 10:16 am

Feet says:

I have an aging PC, Athlon 64 3800, GF6800, 2GB ram. If I had £150 I’d but a 4850 and a dual core proccesor, oh my lack of monies. :( Unfortunately I shan’t have the funds for a complete rebuild till early 2009. It runs TF2 on medium so I’m happy enough.

July 7th, 2008 at 10:21 am

roryok says:

@Gap Gen

You mean like ssh into a computer cluster to write some code in emacs and compile it with mpicc? Can you do that on vanilla XP? I know that Ubuntu can, but still. I do like OSX after having used it for a long time, particularly as Vista is kinda a step backwards.

I knew it, I just knew saying that was going to get me bitch slapped by someone who’s more of a geek than me.

1. Technically no. You’d have to install putty and emacs and I’m not sure at all about mpicc. I was more talking about day to day file management stuff. Maybe I’d just too used to windows, although I took to Ubuntu easy enough.

2. Who said anything about Vista? Vista’s a piece of shit =)

July 7th, 2008 at 10:22 am

Dan says:

Q6600, GeForce 8800 GT, 2GB RAM, running XP. I don’t have a PC gamepad or a laptop.

July 7th, 2008 at 10:26 am

RC-1290'Dreadnought' says:

This is what I use for gaming, modding, listening music and browsing RPS.
case: CM690
mb: MSI P35 Platinum Combo (yes, it exists)
cpu: Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 @ 2.66 GHz
GC: MSI HD3870 OC
Mem: GEIL 4 GB DDR2-800
PS: CM RealPower M620
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit
DVD: Lite-On LH-20A1S
HDD: Hitachi Deskstar HDT725032VLA380 (320GB)

Speakers are from Creative, Inspire T3030

Sometimes the sound is lost on the left speaker, untill I make it produce loud sounds, for example, playing kyuss at full or turning it on and off

I have a standard white Microsoft keyboard, a OEM Logitech optical mouse and a Wacom Bamboo Tablet.

July 7th, 2008 at 10:27 am

Sax says:

Core 2 Quad Q6600
MSI 975X Platinum PowerUp Edition
Aeneaon DDR2-667, 4GB
MSI NX8800GT-T2D512E-OC
Creative Audigy 2 ZS
2 WD 250GB in RAID 0
1 WD 750GB GreenPower
Eizo S1931 19″

Only an old Wingman gamepad, never used it much and don’t use it anymore.
No Laptop.

July 7th, 2008 at 10:29 am

Gap Gen says:

I knew it, I just knew saying that was going to get me bitch slapped by someone who’s more of a geek than me.

Yeah, I mean it’s down to personal preference, but claiming that OSX is for kiddies is pretty wrong. Hell, you can do all your file management in Unix as well if you want. I tend to think of it as an easy-to-use version of Linux.

July 7th, 2008 at 10:33 am

Kismet says:

Main desktop:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 @ 2.8 GHz (summer clocking)
RAM: 4GB Corsair (Twin2X4096-6400C4DHX: 800MHz, 4-4-4-12)
GPU: GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB, slightly overclocked
Gamepad: Logitech Dual Action, all the more or less gimmicky Microsoft Sidewinder gaming devices but the DualStrike and the recently released mouse.

MoBo: Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi/AP
Storage: Western Digital Raptor 150GB 10K RPM (WD1500ADFD) / Samsung Spinpoint T166 500GB 7.2K RPM (HD501LJ) / NAS
Case: Coolermaster Stacker 832
Audio: Onboard SoundMAX audio, out of ethernal procrastination and indecision.
Monitors: LaCie 324, 24″ LCD / Philips “I don’t remember” 19″ CRT
Keyboards: Microsoft Digital Media Keyboard 3000 / Sharkoon Rush Pad
Mouse: Razer Lachesis on fUnc Surface1030 Archetype pad
Windows Vista x64

CivIV & Point’n'Click Adventures Laptop:
Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
1GB RAM
NVidia GeForce4 Go 440 64M

Realtek ALC202 Audio System
40 GB HD @ 4200 rpm
Windows XP

I’d have another laptop, courtesy of my employer, but solitaire aside no gaming is done there, so I guess I’ll skip that along with my old desktop (sporadically used for some old games).

July 7th, 2008 at 10:33 am

BombrMan says:

Intel QX6750 (free from work), EVGA 790i ultra mobo, 2gb ddr3 2000 OCZ RAM, 2x EVGA 8800 GTS 640 in SLI running a dell 2407, XFX 8800GT running a dell 2405 and a dell 2005, KillerNIC K1 NIC, 2 WD velociraptor 300’s in raid 0, Coolermaster aquagate max cooling both 8800 GTS’s, coolermaster 1000w ESA PSU. I have a MS wireless reciever so all 4 of my 360 controllers work happily with my PC including the headsets for them.

July 7th, 2008 at 10:37 am

MaxNormal says:

Just upgraded on the cheap
Kept case (antec sonata), Monitor (samsung 204b), soundcard (audigy), speakers and replaced the rest.

So my ancient home built machine:
athlon 2500xp
1 gig ram
6600gt
windows 2000

has become:

Athlon X2 4800
9600 GT
4 gig ram
1 tb seagate hard drive
ECS A770M-A mobo
Xp pro

Microsoft inspired the upgrade by discontinuing XP. Game designers helped by stupidly not supporting windows 2000 for the past 2 years – I got sick of having to find hacks to get games to run. (no thanks Bioshock)

Stalker looks sooo much better.
Doom 3 on ultra is pretty cool.
Source games at 1600 1200 is great

What I do find difficult is figuring out what performance I should be getting out of current games.
Crysis seems to run pretty well – I must try it at full detail.

I wont begin to list the controllers. I have a problem in buying far too many of them.

July 7th, 2008 at 10:41 am

Turin Turambar says:

I built my computer past year, component by component:

E6850 (Dual Core 3.0Ghz)
2 GB Ram Kingston HyperX
300 GB HD Seagate
75 GB HD Raptor 10000Rpm
Ati 2900XT 512 Mb Ram
Dell 20″ widescreeen
edit:
Windows XP Pro
Medusa Headphones 5.1

I only have played with keyboard and mouse for the last 17 years (hardcore pc player without any console after all these years), but just the past month i added a 360 pad to play Grid on PC. I had the pad from a 360 core, a gift included in a TV pack bought by my father, who wanted a big HD screen.

The console is eating dust in the basement. :D

July 7th, 2008 at 10:47 am

Sam says:

PC
Custom built,
Athlon 64 X2 @ 2.1 Ghz (this is the “Energy Efficient” release)
Asus M2A-somethingorother motherboard. The one with on-board RAID, and the crappy Southbridge that doesn’t understand PCI-Express 2…
Geforce 8800GT 512Mb (flashed to PCI-Express 1.1 for the mobo)
2 Gb RAM @ DDR2-667
Onboard sound (hah)
120 Gb HDD (some kind of Maxtor, IIRC)
20 Gb HDD (which has lasted beyond my last PC…)
Some semi-generic widescreen monitor at 1440×900.

Running Ubuntu, only. (Wine for Windows-only games.)

[b]Laptop[/b]
Asus EEE 701, with the default Xandros-ish linux OS.

July 7th, 2008 at 10:47 am

Armyofnone says:

Antec Sonata case, self built, 500gb SATA hard drive, 8800GT Stock overclocked 512mb video card, coupla gigs of DDR2 ram, dualcore 2.66ghz Intel processors, saitek eclipse keyboard, some nice logitech mouse. Not a super computer, but plays everything new, which is a first for me.

July 7th, 2008 at 10:48 am

lifeless says:

Gaming PC:
C2D E6400 @ 3.3ish (had to drop OC because of summer)
4GB Corsair 6400C4
EVGA 680i SLi
Audigy extreme gamer
Areca 1210 RAID with 4x WD 500gb (1.5TB RAID5)
WD 400gb
samsung 19″ crt and samsung 20.1″ tft
creative 5.1 speakers

2nd PC/server
3800×2 low power
8gb 5300
what ever hdd(s) i have spare…
gigabyte mATX ati 690 mobo
intel gig nic

laptop
sony vaio fs115z
pent M 1.7
1.5gb ram
100gb hdd

pvr
amd 2800xp
1gb ram
320gb hdd
2x nebual usb tuners
msi via mATX mobo

phew think thats all…..

July 7th, 2008 at 10:49 am

Seniath says:

Erm, SHODAN is a 2.13GHz E6400 Pentium Core 2 Duo with 3 Gb of RAM and an 8800 GT. Peripheral wise, I’ve got an old (blue) Logitech G15 keyboard, and an MX1000 mouse.

My laptop, XERXES, is a Dell M1350 XPS with an nVidia 8600 M graphics card (one of the optional upgrades).

Both are running Vista (Business-N on SHODAN, Home Premium on XERXES), and I’ve got one of the 360 wireless dongle thingies, so I can use my 360 pads with the PC should I chose to (and have, for the likes of Audiosurf and Overlord).

July 7th, 2008 at 10:52 am

Krekis says:

CPU: AMD ATHLON 64 X2 4200+ AM2
Motherboard: Asrock ALIVESATA2-GLAN LIVE!
RAM: Kingmax 2024MB, DDRII667, CL5, PC2-5300
Video: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 Mb
HDD: Samsung SPP2004C 200 GB; Samsung HD401LJ 500 GB.

July 7th, 2008 at 10:53 am

roBurky says:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz
2GB RAM
GeForce 8800 GTS graphics card
Two 17″ monitors, which I can’t imagine living without any more.

I have no gamepads.

July 7th, 2008 at 10:57 am

James G says:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
MB: Asus P5N-E SLI
RAM: 4GB, OCZ nVIDIA SLI DDR2 PC6400 2X2048MB, CL5-4-4-15
Graphics: MSI GeForce 8800GT 512MB OC GDDR3
HD: Western Digital Caviar 160Gb 8Mb Cache SATA150

Have two monitors, a 17′ LG TFT (8ms response) and a 19′ widescreen samsung HD TV (8ms). I primarily use the 17′ screen as the TV is poorly placed for gaming/working at and I like to sometimes watch TV and use the PC at the same time.

I also have a cheap PS2 style UBS gamepad.

Running Vista Ultimate 64bit edition.

July 7th, 2008 at 11:02 am

Dan (WR) says:

ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe
AMD X2 4400+
2Gb DDR
ATI HD3870 512Mb
Asus Xonar DX
640GB HD & 300GB HD
22” Samsung 2232BW

And I have a 360 gamepad. I did have a Nostromo n52 as well, but it’s developed an annoying squeak.

As an aside – I’ve become much more console-focused over the last couple of years because I’d become fed up with crashes and poor performance in games. I recently upgraded a bit to try and get back into PC Games a little more, only to find myself plagued by poor framerate drops – even in Half-Life 2. I suppose it’s my own fault for buying a big monitor, but even downscaling the resolution doesn’t seem to help a great deal.

Half the time, I can’t tell whether it’s a badly optimised game (like Neverwinter Nights 2), or Vista being rubbish, or maybe my old motherboard or RAM. I love PC gaming but it also frustrates the arse off me.

July 7th, 2008 at 11:05 am

skalpadda says:

And Skalpadda – Freespace 2?

True that, I never got around to playing the Freespace games, but weren’t Freespace 2 and XWA released pretty much at the same time? Got a real urge for it now.. I wonder if XvT and the disk version of TIE Fighter work under XP.. *starts rummaging in the Old CDs shelf*

July 7th, 2008 at 11:09 am

Tims says:

I just moved to London, and my desktop was too big to fit in my backpack.
So now I’ve got some anonymous celeron thing running Ubuntu. I can’t even play peggle! I can run the Penny Arcade game (barely) and that’s it.
I game vicariously through blogs.

July 7th, 2008 at 11:12 am

Sucram says:

Use my desktop and laptop fairly equally.

Desktop (self-build):
Intel Q6600, Radeon 3870, 2GB RAM.
Have a 24″LCD and a 19″CRT. Often watch TV on one while working on the other. Have a 360 gamepad.

Laptop:
Toshiba 17″, Core Duo 1.6Ghz, GeForce 7600Go, 1GB RAM

Both run Vista when gaming. Need to replace the laptop since it’s starting to fall apart.

July 7th, 2008 at 11:18 am

Daniel Purvis says:

MacBook Pro
15.4″ 1440×900
8600M GT 512 VRAM
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz, 6mb L2 cache, 800mhz bus speed
2GB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz
250GB HDD
OSX 10.5 as main working processor
Gaming under Windows XP via Boot Camp

I have a first release ASUS G15 Keyboard for gaming with an ASUS mouse of some sort.

My old laptop was an ASUS G1 with GO7700M 512VRAM, Core 2 Duo of some sort and pissed me off a whole bunch.

Before that I was still running a single core processor with a 6600GT, which served me extremely well for the time I had it.

July 7th, 2008 at 11:20 am

Syl says:

This thing has been upgraded countless times over the past 3+ years. It currently stands:

Windows XP 32bit
Athlon X2 4600+ (overclocked to 2.8 from 2.4) w/ thermalright xp-90
ASrock AliveNF5-ESATA2+ motherboard
2 gigs of decent corsair ddr800 ram.
XFX 8800GT videocard with Thermaltake Duo-orb heatsink
Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS w 5.1 surround
WD Raptor 74 gig, Seagate 7200.7 160 gig, Seagate 7200.10 400 gig and a WD caviar 500 gig harddrive. (1.15 terabytes total)
2 monitors, both at 1280×1024. Ones a samsung CRT at 85hrz, the other one is an LCD.
Bells and whistles with fanspeed controllers and other stuff. Antec SuperLanboy is the case.

July 7th, 2008 at 11:30 am

Lars Balker Rasmussen says:

Three computers on my desk, one in the hall (fileserver).
iMac 24″ – web, multimedia, mail, etc.
lenovo x60 (linux) for coding, portability.

Shuttle sn25p, amd 4000 , 7900gt, 2GB, XP, getting looong in the tooth for games… still runs cod4 and tf2 fairly effortlessly, and I somehow managed to complete the crysis singleplayer campaign. Likely to be upgraded this year.

And no game-controllers beyond the qwerty-thing and rodent….

July 7th, 2008 at 11:32 am

akbar says:

Um, RPS, what’s the problem with the Steam hardware survey? It’s got waaay more data than you could ever collect like this… Although perhaps you want to get a sort of demographic profile of RPS readers’ PCs? Is that it? Are you segmenting us?

Aaaah. Yes, my job does involve surveys.

So, Athlon 64 X2 3800
2GB RAM
nvidia 8600GT w/ 256MB
19″ monitor (square; covet a bigger widescreen)

Also, EEE PC.

No gamepads.

July 7th, 2008 at 11:37 am

roryok says:

@philip

fair enough, I have a 512mb 9600gt so thats where I’m coming from

@gap gen

fair enough. I’m biased I suppose, both from decades (ouch, I’m old) of using windows and the fact that I think Steve Jobs is a stuck up asshole.

July 7th, 2008 at 11:39 am

Philip says:

Um, RPS, what’s the problem with the Steam hardware survey? It’s got waaay more data than you could ever collect like this… Although perhaps you want to get a sort of demographic profile of RPS readers’ PCs? Is that it? Are you segmenting us?

Yeah, would be nice if you could (with PC owner’s permission) look at the PC specs for a particular Steam community. Problem is, it only collects the info of any PC with Steam installed, and it won’t tell you about gamepads (as far as I’m aware, although I rarely have mine plugged in so I assume Steam wouldn’t pick it up).

July 7th, 2008 at 11:40 am

obo says:

Main gamer:
Pentium D E2180 2.0 GHz
2GB cheapo RAM
500W cheapo power supply
nVidia GeForce 8400GS
160GB SATA HDD, 250GB PATA HDD
WinXP Pro, Vista Business, Ubuntu 8.10 (64-bit)
ViewSonic VA1912wb 19″ widescreen monitor (8ms, 1440×900 max)

I’ve also got an Eee 701 (Xandros, Ubuntu, WinXP) and a Toshiba Satellite S1415 (Ubuntu, WinXP), and a low-power media center PC (WinXP MCE, GeForce 7100GS) in the living room hooked up to an old SDTV that handles N64 emulation well enough.

I’ve got a USB-to-PS2/Gamecube/Dreamcast adapter that handles all my gamepad needs. The media center uses a Wii remote and wireless sensor bar for navigation. (I don’t own a Wii, I just like the remote.)

If it’s worth noting, my PS2, DC and Gamecube are all connected through the tuner on the PC.

July 7th, 2008 at 11:41 am

mandrill says:

Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 2.6GHz
2GB Ram
nVidia GF8500 512MB
Windows Media Center SP3

Its an off the shelf Dell with a processor Memory and Graphics card upgrade, in a non off the shelf box (which took some doing I’ll tell you.) My next machine is going to be custom built from the ground up and make no noise whatsoever. Transferring the innards to a different box meant having to jury rig a couple of fans which sound like concord taking off, and the Dell MB has no extra sockets for fans and no way of controlling their speed.

It runs EVE Trinity, Stalker, GRID, and other pretty games quite well, So for the moment I’m happy with it.

July 7th, 2008 at 11:43 am

Riotpoll says:

Built by me:
Intel Q6600 clocked at 3Ghz
2×2GB Corsair XMS2 PC-6400 DDR2
XFX 9600GT XXX (Waiting for the 4870×2 / 4870 1GB version and more student loan in the autumn…)
Seagate Barracuda 500GB
Samsung 223BW 24″ and a cheapo Acer 17″
Crappy speakers and headset
Vista 64bit
No control pad, looking at getting a wired 360 one when i can be arsed.

My old system (used for playing xwing v tiefighter and other old things)
Intel Pentium 133
92mb of RAM!!!
500mb 300mb hard drive space ( I think)
integrated gfx of some kind, stuff appears on the screen
15″ CRT
Windows 95
Old m$ Sidewinder joystick

July 7th, 2008 at 11:46 am

FooAtari says:

Gaming PC:
E4300 clocked to 3.0Ghz
8800GTX
2GB PC6400
160Gb Hard Drive
24″ Monitor
Logteich G5 mouse/Saitek Keyboard
Logitech 5.1/5.1 Headset
Vista 32bit

Linux box (day to day use)
E2140 clocked to 2.6Ghz
1Gb PC5300
7300GT
Hard Drive
320Gb
500 Gb
1 TB
Kubuntu 8.04

EEEPC

July 7th, 2008 at 11:52 am

Optimaximal says:

Main Computer:
Processor – Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 2.2Ghz
Motherboard – ASRock ConroeXFire-ESATA2
RAM – 2GB Corsair XMS
Video Card – Inno3D GeForce 8800GTS 320MB
HDD – 300GB WD Caviar SE 16mb SATA
OS – Windows XP MCE 2k5
All wrapped up in a nice Coolermaster Centurion 534+ Black with a 19″ Acer 1916Ws, Saitek Eclipse 1 keyboard & Razer Diamondback 3G Mouse on top for garnish.

Second computer:
Compaq D310 salvaged from work with a poor liitle P4 & 1GB of RAM. Currently running Kubuntu 8.04 w. KDE4 – used as a PVR box.

Laptop:
Sony VAIO VGN-BX19EP
Processor – Intel Celeron 1.6Ghz
RAM – 1GB Crucial
Video Card – Intel GMA 915GL
HDD – 60GB
OS – Windows XP Professional

July 7th, 2008 at 11:53 am

SirNuke says:

Lots o’ boxes at the moment:

Main Box for ’serious’ gaming:
AMD 4200 X2 (64W, now labeled by AMD as the energy efficient line)
4×1GB of DDR2 800
250GB Hard Drive
7900 GS
M-Audio Revolution 5.1
19″ ViewSonic LCD, back from when the low end ViewSonics were made by ViewSonic.
XP Pro (32-bit, boooo)/Ubuntu 8.04 (soon to be 64-bit!)
No gamepads, I used to have a CyberStik2, which is now used by my dad to play the X-Wing games.

I play a number of older games such as Grim Fandango, Starcraft and Worms Armageddon on my T23 Thinkpad:
PIII Mobile 1.2ghz
256 MB of Ram
SiS SuperSavage w/ 16 MB (!)
Windows 2000/Ubuntu 8.04

I have a Powerbook G4 for work. A pity ATI doesn’t have Linux/PPC drivers, but I can still play Starcraft on OSX and SCUMMVM on Linux.
G4 1.0Ghz
512MB of Ram
Some ATI Video Card
Mac OS X/Ubuntu 8.04

Two boxes acting as servers. One is a screenless dell laptop, the other is an IBM Xserver.
PIII 1.0 Ghz mobile, 128MB of Ram, other is PIII 1.0Ghz and 1GB of Ram. I’ve been getting into the habit of storing save games on them to avoid having a half dozen half finished Sam & Max games.

This is my first summer with a reasonable paying job and I was sorely tempted to get a new LCD and CPU/MB/RAM. However, by the time I finished all the maintenance purchasing (motherboard and DVD drives died, replaced case, got a proper router, Window AC, new hd for Thinkpad) it’s not looking like I’ll have much money left over. :(

July 7th, 2008 at 11:55 am

terry says:

I own a generic 2.10 ghz dual core athlon thing, with an ageing 6800 gfx card. And an Amiga.

July 7th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

Serialtinus says:

PC:
- Core 2 Duo @ 2.66Ghz
- 2 Gigs of RAM
- 500GB HDD
- Geforce 8800GTS (320mb)
- Acer 24″ LCD Screen (1920×1200)
- Xbox 360 gamepad
- M-Audio Audiophile (External Firewire soundcard)
- Alesis M1 Active MkII Monitor Speakers
- Windows XP / Ubuntu Studio 8.10

Laptop: Acer Aspire something something (it’s currently being repaired)
- Core 2 Duo @ 1.66Ghz
- 1 Gig of RAM
- 100GB HDD
- Radeon X1600 Mobility
- 15.4 Inch LCD
- Windows XP / Ubuntu Studio 8.10

I use these systems for gaming, multimedia playback (mostly music), software development and music production. They run most titles just fine, except for the high end spectrum (Crysis, etc.). The 8800GTS 320MB was a bad choice as that amount of memory is just too little for HD resolutions, hence I don’t really play the the latest graphically intense shooters anymore. Shame, because I really like them.

July 7th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

David McBride says:

Gosh, my machines seem rather older than most going here.

Gaming desktop:
* CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.4Ghz
* RAM: 2GB
* Graphics: AGP 8x nVidia 7800 or similar.
* OS: Windows XP Ubuntu Linux
* Screen: 20in LCD, 1600×1200.
* Audio: SoundBlaster Live! Value Creative Soundworks FPS1000 4.1 speakers, circa 1999. (Remember these?)

Plays TF2 pretty well at 1024×768, and just about managed to scrape through playing Supreme Commander. About due for replacement, I think, but at 5 years old, it has served me very well.

It used to have an ATI Radeon 9700 in it, until one day when it decided to reflash the controller chip in my LCD screen through the DVI cable, buggering it completely. (Photos: 1, 2)

No, I didn’t think that was possible, either.

Laptop:
* Lenovo ThinkPad R60e
* CPU: Intel Core Duo T2300
* RAM: 1.5GB
* Graphics: Intel GMA950
* OS: Ubuntu Linux
* Screen: 1024×768

Day-to-day work machine. Many lower-spec games work well under DosBOX and/or WINE; Peggle (via Steam), ArtOfTheft, Tyrian2000, etc.

I’ve also got a tower case sitting in the corner acting as fileserver / TV machine, with 1TB of RAID5 storage and a pair of digital TV tuners in the back.

July 7th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

Monkfish says:

Right, here we go… *takes a deep breath*

Main PC – built Christmas ‘06
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 running at 3GHz
Memory: 2GB
Graphics: 8800GTS 640MB
Monitor: Samsung 215TW – 21″- 1680×1050
Sound: Creative X-Fi
HDD: A couple of Raptors (one 74GB, one 150GB)
OS: XP Home

Cheapo Laptop – Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pi 2512
Processor: Intel Pentium Dual Core 1.6GHz
Memory: 2GB
Graphics: Intel GMA X3100
Monitor: 15.4″ standard lappy screen – 1280×800
Sound: Realtek HD audio with the tinniest speakers known to man
HDD: 120GB
OS: Vista Home

And I don’t own any gamepads. Yet.

July 7th, 2008 at 12:18 pm

Fetthesten says:

- Core 2 Duo 2.13GHz
- 4GB RAM
- GeForce 8800 GT
- Windows Vista Ultimate
- I own lots of gamepads that can be used on my computer, of which only the Xbox 360 wireless pads see any use these days
- Never owned a laptop
- All I ever use this PC for is web surfing, porn and the odd game of FreeCell
- That last bit was not entirely true (sometimes I can’t be arsed with FreeCell)

July 7th, 2008 at 12:18 pm

AbyssUK says:

3400 Athlon 64 socket A
2gig DDR Ram
Asus A7N SE Deluxe motherboard
7600GTS (silent) 512mb pci-e GFX
1 160 gig HDD partitioned far too many times
Ubuntu linux (main) win xp (for games) and win xp 64 (i don’t know why I have this still)

all in a nice very silent piano black case.. its all very silent….

but then I have my 360 plugged into my monitor and network bridged through my pc I then stupidly keep it on top of my super silent case which then acoustically becomes a helicopter everytime I play GTA IV… oh well… I can’t afford a decent TV… but I play GTA IV in 1600 x 1200 :)

July 7th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

muscrat says:

Q6600
2gb DDR2 800
Gigabyte P35C-DS3
8800GT 512mb
250gb Seagate Barracuda
160gb Seagate Barracuda
650w Coolermaster PowerDuo
Thermaltake Soprano Case
Windows XP Pro
-
Logitech G7 mouse
MS Sidewinder Precision 2 Joystick
Logitech Driving Force Pro 2 wheel
Nostromo ‘Speed Pad’
Cheapie 360 controller lookalike gamepad. (I really should get a wireless 360 controller adaptor).

July 7th, 2008 at 12:30 pm

alco75 says:

self-built

Core 2 Duo
2 GB
8800 GTS

no laptops
no gamepads

July 7th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

Spectere says:

-Custom-built
-Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300, 2.5GHz
-4GB DDR2 RAM @ 800MHz (4-4-4-12)
-GeForce 9800GTX, 512MB GDDR3
-4x 750GB 7200rpm SATA HDDs (running in a RAID 1 0 array)
-2x dual-layer 16x DVD -RW burners
-Dual-booting Vista Ultimate x64 and Gentoo Linux 2008.0 x64
-Samsung SyncMaster 2693HM (25.5″ LCD, running at 1920×1200, primary display)
-Dell UltraScan P793 (17″ CRT, running at 1280×960 @ 75hz, max resolution 1920×1080 @ 60hz [yikes], secondary display)

It’s a pretty nice upgrade from my previous P4-2.8, 1GB, GF6600GT system. :P

I also have a laptop that I use for light gaming:

-Dell Inspiron 9300
-Pentium M 1.73GHz
-2GB DDR2 RAM @ 533MHz
-ATI RADEON MOBILITY X300, 64MB DDR (had I put a GF6800 it would still been okay for newer games…oh well)
-120GB SATA HDD
-CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive
-Dual-booting Windows XP MCE 2005 and Gentoo Linux 2008.0 x86
-17″ WUXGA (1920×1200) display

And finally, I do occasionally use gamepads or joysticks. I use wired Xbox 360 controllers on my systems and occasionally PlayStation 2 controllers (though not much anymore, since I prefer the 360 controllers for most things). I also have a Saitek X52 joystick/throttle control for flight sims, MechWarrior, and things like that. I also occasionally plug a DDR pad (a Cobalt Flux) into my laptop for use with StepMania (I also tried rRootage with it once…that proved to be interesting).

July 7th, 2008 at 12:37 pm

redrain85 says:

I just built myself a new PC this last Christmas, to replace my ancient 5 year-old system I’d been clinging to for so long.

New PC:
Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe Wi-Fi AM2+ Mobo (790FX chipset)
Athlon X2 6400+ 3.2GHz
Radeon HD3870 512MB
Auzentech X-Fi Prelude 7.1 Sound Card
2GB OCZ Platinum XTC Rev. 2 DDR2 800MHz
2 x Western Digital Caviar SE16 SATA 500GB
Acer 2216WDB 22″ LCD Monitor
Cambridge DTT2500 5.1 Surround Speakers (these are old, had them for a long time already)
Logitech Access 600 Keyboard
Logitech MX518 1800DPI Mouse
Vista Ultimate x64 SP1

I’ll wait until the K10.5 Phenoms are released, and then I’ll upgrade to quad core, 4GB, and a new video card (probably a revised version of one of the Radeon 4xxx series). It’ll be almost like a completely new PC for a minimal investment.

I still have the old PC, which I now use as a backup and also to run any really old games/software.

Old PC:
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe Mobo
Athlon XP 3200+
Radeon X800 XT 256MB
Nforce 2 Soundstorm sound
1GB Corsair Value DDR 400MHz
2 x Western Digital Caviar IDE 80GB
Samsung SyncMaster 172T 17″ LCD Monitor
Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard
Logitech MX1000 Cordless Mouse
XP SP2

I do have a gamepad. It’s the Logitech Wingman Rumblepad. But I hardly ever use it.

The original Xbox was my last console. I still have it. But I almost never use it, either. And I have no intention of buying another one.

July 7th, 2008 at 12:42 pm

Jockie says:

Intel Core 2 Quad 6600 (overclocked to 3.1 ghz per core)
Asus pk5E
4gb Ram
Ati Radeon 3870HD 512mb Ram
500gb HD
19″ TFT widescreen monitor
Vista 64 Bit
Arctic cooling Freezer pro

No gamepads
No laptop

July 7th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

MrNeutron says:

My vital statistics are:

Core 2 Duo E6750 (overclocked to 3.5 ghz)
4 gigs of RAM (3.5 usable with my 32-bit OS)
GeForce 8800GTS 320mb
22-inch widescreen display

My next upgrade will be a new video card, almost definitely a Radeon 4870.

My PC is a very solid gaming rig. I’m a PC hobbyist and tweaker as well as a gamer, so while games are the primary motivator for upgrading, I do sink a good deal of disposable income into my PC, because I gain a great deal of enjoyment from working under the hood, as it were.

As for a gamepad, yes I have one, a $20 little Logitech jobby. Definitely worth the money. I don’t use it very much, but every now and then something like Lego Star Wars comes along, or Geometry Wars, or Assassin’s Creed, and I’m glad I’ve got the option to bust it out.

July 7th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

Rook says:

Desktop custom built, because who doesn’t like having 1 niggling flaw they can never sort out.

E6600
3GB DDR2
8800GTS 640MB
All in a sleek Silverstone SG01 Evolution Case paired with a Dell 2407WFP

Laptop and current LANParty machine of choice.
Dell XPS M1530
T8100
8600M GT
2GB 667Mhz Ram

I own a wirelss 360 controller, and all the gubbins to make it usefull.

Generally I think I prefer playing games on the laptop, as long as I can cope with the detail settings and get it running in the native resolution (TF2/Guild Wars/CoD4), otherwise it’s the desktop for the heavy duty gaming (Mass Effect/Grid)

July 7th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

dartt says:

Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4ghz)
2gb DDR2 667MHZ
2 x 300gb 7200rpm drives
Nvidia 8800GTX

July 7th, 2008 at 1:07 pm

Sarin says:

Wow, do you just post these to fill your monthly comment quota? :P

Aw, hell, I’ll bite.

Abit IP35 Pro
Intel Q6600 2.45GHz
4Gb 667MHz Ram
Geforce 8800GT
700GB HD
Vista x64

No Gamepads

July 7th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

Stew says:

I have a year-old MacBook that dual-boots XP so that I can play City of Heroes on the move, and Planescape: Torment on the train.

My desktop is a creaky, randomly crashing piece of shit that last saw an upgrade in early 2005. It’s packing a single-core Athlon 64 3000 at 2.4GHz, 3GB of RAM, and a GeForce 6600. Yes, I’m still using a 6600. I know I need to upgrade, but frankly I don’t have the cash handy. It runs XP, mostly because I’ve used Vista for a while at work and would rather gouge out my eyeballs with rusty spoons than inflict that suppurating piece of diseased dingo’s kidneys on any machine that I use for pleasure.

July 7th, 2008 at 1:13 pm

Joe says:

Pity the poor person who has to go through and formalise this data..

HP NC6000 laptop
Pentium M 1.8
Radeon Mobility 9600
1.5Gb
60Gb HD
Win XP
1400×1050 TFT

July 7th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

nakke says:

Well.

Antec P182,
Asus P5Q,
Q9450,
8GB of DDR2 (I thought ‘hey, a 2GB stick costs as much as 512MB did a few years ago, why not?’),
8800GT 512MB (will probably sell this and buy a new card if some game comes out that convinces me that I need a new one. ’twas only 134€ when I bought it a few months ago),
Vista x64,
and a few hard drives in RAID5.

I have a 360 gamepad, which seems to work better in Vista without the XBCD drivers than what it did in XP. Although it still sucks with the normal drivers in games that aren’t specifically coded for it. I also have a very old (5-6 years (?)) MS Force Feedback Wheel, which still works fine (though no idea how much better a G25 would be), and a Saitek joystick for Flight Simulator X.

No laptop yet, although the Eee does look pretty sexy.

July 7th, 2008 at 1:19 pm

Dot says:

A Q6600
8800GT 512
4GB DDR2
Vista 32
3 HDDs of varying capacities.
Oh and a 360 gamepad.

July 7th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

kuddles says:

Coolermaster Centurion, ASUS P5K, E8400, 4 gigs of DDR2-800 Corsair XMS2, 2 320gig hard drives, and now I have a EVGA GTX 280 since I got a good deal from someone wanting my 8800GTX. I forget the model of my monitor, but it’s a 24″ Samsung. Everything’s running at stock, I don’t mess around with that stuff. I was dual-booting XP and Vista 64-bit for a while, but now I made the full Vista transition after SP1 came out and didn’t have any issues anyone else complained about.

I do have a gamepad, the wired 360 one, it’s a great ergonomic controller and a lot of recent games recognize it as such which removes problems like when the game tells you to push button 3 which is actually button 1 on the gamepad due to different layouts. Mind you, I rarely use it since I own all three current consoles so if it’s better suited for a gamepad I usually just pick up the console version.

July 7th, 2008 at 1:40 pm

caesarbear says:

E8400 Core 2 Duo, 2Gb, geforce 7900
with energy efficient DES Gigabyte mobo and Antec Earthwatts PSU

No laptop, secondary desktop w/ 1.2Ghz AMD

I have a perfectly good cordless Logitech Wingman gamepad that I’d rather not need to replace with 360 controller thank you very much.

July 7th, 2008 at 1:43 pm

MurderSandwich says:

Intel E6750, 4gbs of RAM, 8800 GT, 950GB of HDD space and an X-BOX 360 Wireless gamepad (which, if I live in while booting up, kills everything plugged in via usb. Quite strange)

My secondary is a DS lite :P

July 7th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

Frank says:

Radeon HD 2600 PRO
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
15″ monitor from yesteryear
4 gigs RAM (for data analysis long ago)
300? gigs space

I bought my first laptop, a ThinkPad, a few weeks ago. It’s hard enough navigating Firefox with that red button, so I haven’t tried games.

July 7th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

Chaz says:

P4 3Ghz with hyper threading malarky.
1.5Gb Ram
512Mb 6800GTS/GTX well something like that anyway.
No pad but I have a force feedback joystick.

Xbox360.

Rollout jigsaw mat.

July 7th, 2008 at 2:11 pm

Jackflash says:

Dell Inspiron 9300
1.6 Ghz Pentium M (!!)
Geforce Go 6800, 256 MB
1 Gb Ram
OpenSUSE 11 / Ubuntu Hardy Heron / WinXP

Will be building a new rig in the fall.

Don’t have a gamepad. Fucking consoles!!!!!!

July 7th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

Iain says:

I have two PCs that I game on.

First up, my main games rig, which is about a year and a half old and will probably be replaced/upgraded sometime next year:
AMD 64 X2 5200
2GB RAM
600GB RAID 0 HDD
Soundblaster X-Fi
2x 320MB GeForce 8800 GTS in SLI configuration
19″ LG monitor @ 1280×1024 native res.
Running XP Pro

My second PC is a laptop that I bought earlier this year and use almost exclusively for writing, internet surfing and World of Warcraft. Though not necessarily in that order:
Centrino Dual Core @ 1.5GHz
2GB RAM
160GB HDD
256MB GeForce 7600 mobile
15.4″ screen @ 1280×800
Running Vista

In terms of controllers, I have a conversion lead for an old Xbox pad to use as a controller with racing games, and I have a Saitek Cyborg 3D Force Feedback stick as well for space/flight sims, but I don’t tend to use them with the laptop.

July 7th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

The_B says:

My games playing machine is self built, and has the following specs:

2.4Ghz Intel Duo Quad Core 6600
2GB of RAM
GeForce 8800 GTX 756mb Graphics
and one wired 360 gamepad, that I bought before any sort of contact with the 360, if it makes any difference.

July 7th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

cqdemal says:

Custom-built rig with (usually) annual upgrades:

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 – OC’d to 3.6GHz
ASUS P5K
4GB OCZ ReaperX HPC DDR2 RAM – rated at 1000, running at 800 to reduce NB temp
ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB
640GB Western Digital Caviar SE16 HDD
700W OCZ GameXStream PSU
Thermaltake Shark case
22″ LG L226WTQ display (with broken power light!)
Windows Vista Ultimate

I have an Xbox 360 controller and a cheapo PS2-esque pad with horribly tattered analog nubs (for a random gaming guest).

No consoles, no handhelds, no laptops.

July 7th, 2008 at 2:26 pm

Michael Howard says:

Mine is a 3.2GHz P4, with 2GB RAM and an AGP Geforce 7600. It’s old and upgraded as much as the technology inside will allow.

I don’t play may modern retail games, I use it for downloadable and indie titles, and older games.

I’m on the downturn of my PC gaming cycle right now – where my PC is too old to play the new games at high settings, and I play on the consoles instead. In a year or two I’ll get a new shiny PC and do most of my gaming there, catching up on all the must-play titles I missed.

July 7th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

Tak says:

e6600
eVGA 8600GTS superclock (factory overclocked, cranks about the same as a basic 8800 and was cheaper at the time)
2 gigs of bouncy-bouncy
X-Fi because I was feeling fiesty one day
slap in a few hundred gigs of SATA and bang, that’s a desktop.

Saitek X52 is my HOTAS of choice. Love that joker. I’ve got a few gamepads around running from the original sidewinder pad (best f’n pad ever) to the 360 controllers, but honestly unless the game is a platformer I’ll map it to the stick or the keyboard/mouse. Oh, and an older sidewinder racing wheel, but I haven’t dusted that off in a while. I only used it for GPL.

Work gets done on whatever this Dell is from work. It’s a centrino something or other with a gig or two. ‘Work’ consists of SQL mostly, so it’s not like the laptop itself is doing a lot of thinking :p

July 7th, 2008 at 2:42 pm

Crash says:

Mine is nothing fancy – gaming laptop from Asus:

Asus G1S
Intel Core2Duo 2.2GHz
2GB RAM
GF8600M @ 256MB
200GB HDD
Windows XP

It allows me to play most of the modern games in low-to-medium settings, and that’s fine for me.

I also own 1tb external hdd to store por.. ekhm.. data.

July 7th, 2008 at 2:52 pm

nabeel says:

I’ve been using extremely rubbish rigs for the past 6 or so years, up til last month it was a PIII 800mhz with a GeForce 4MX 440 64MB and 384MB RAM. I’d play recent releases on someone else’s computer, otherwise I only retro-gamed on this. Oh, but EVE worked! And Peggle.

I upgraded to an AMD Athlon64 X2 5200+, GeForce 9600GSO 384MB, 2GB DDR2 RAM. It isn’t quite super future-proof I suppose but it’s light years ahead of what I’ve had to live with. I’ve got some catching up to do now.

I don’t use gamepads at all, though I do wish I had one when playing emulation stuff.

nabeel

July 7th, 2008 at 2:55 pm

Man Raised By Puffins says:

Athlon XP 2100
2 GB RAM (was going cheap at the time and I needed a bit more RAM, hence why this sticks out)
Geforce 7600GT (picked up quite cheaply as a straight replacement for my 6800GT which died)
Wired X360 pad (which moonlights as a second pad for my X360)
Saitek Cyborg Evo joystick

I intend to pretty much build a new machine by the end of the year, I mean when your machine struggles with Audiosurf then you know it’s time for an upgrade.

July 7th, 2008 at 2:58 pm

theapologist says:

I have a quad core 6600, 8800 GTX, 2gb ram, x-fi games, 2xsata 180Gb in Raid0, vista, and an xbox controller

July 7th, 2008 at 3:03 pm

Lukasz says:

Processor Information:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Speed: 2010 Mhz
1 logical processor
1 physical processor
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Windows Version:
Windows XP (32 bit)
NTFS: Supported

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
DirectX Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.11.6921
DirectX Driver Version: 6.14.11.6921
Driver Date: 4 Dec 2007
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
VendorID: 0×10de
DeviceID: 0×391
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Desktop Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Primary Display Size: 16.93″ x 10.55″ (19.92″ diag)
43.0cm x 26.8cm (50.6cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 256 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x

Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek AC97 Audio

Memory:
RAM: 1023 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Microphone: Not set
Media Type: DVD
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 114470 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 4942 Mb
OS Install Date: Jan 01 1997
Installed Packages: Firefox,Windows Firewall

July 7th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

Killerbee says:

My gaming PC:

Core2Quad Q6600 (2.4Ghz)
3GB DDR2 800Mhz RAM
2 x 512MB Geforce 8800GT in SLI config
500GB HDD
Soundblaster X-Fi Gamer
Windows Vista Home Premium (32-bit)
750w PSU

Plays pretty much everything I’ve thrown at it; even did a good job of Crysis on Very High settings at 1280×1024.

I have a very old gamepad that came free with a copy of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, but I hardly ever use it.

I’ve also got an old HP laptop (running XP) that is mostly just used for a bit of internet surfing and the odd word document. Not a gaming machine in any way, shape or form.

July 7th, 2008 at 3:26 pm

Unspeakable Horror says:

Antec P180
Core 2 Duo 6700 (3.5ghz)
Nvidia 8800GTX
2×500GB WD
1×150GB WD
1×150GB Something.
22″ LCD WS Viewsonic
Creative X-Fi.
1 gamepad.

July 7th, 2008 at 3:31 pm

Kelpie says:

Built 3 months ago, after living with my old Barton 2800+, 2Gb, 160Gb IDE, 9800Pro for the past 4 years.

OCZ StealthXstream 600W PSU
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L rev 2.0 mobo
Intel Q6600 @ 2.7 GHZ (Retail Cooler)
Geil 2Gb DDRII 800
Seagate 500Gb 32Mb Cache
BFG 8800GT OC
Windows XP Pro SP3
Logitech 350 keyboard & MX510 mouse.
Logitech Cordless Rumblepad 2

Aego M 2.1 Speakers

17″ CRT monitor

July 7th, 2008 at 3:34 pm

neoanderthal says:

Coolermaster 650W PS
Antec 900 case
Athlon 64 x2 5000 BE
4GB DDR2-800 RAM
Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H
WD 160GB SATA-II
Philips LightScribe DVD-RAM
Radeon X1950Pro
Apple Pro Keyboard
Logitech VX Revolution mouse
Belkin Nostromo gamepad
Saitek gamepad (whose model I cannot remember but looks very much like a PS/2 gamepad)
HP w1907 display

July 7th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

AciD says:

AMD 64 3000+
Radeon 9550 GE (128mb) With broken fan :)
512 RAM
WD Caviar 160GB
Samsung Writemaster x16
Logitech Media Keyboard
Razer Lachesis
I completed Crysis and CoD4 on that rig ^^

July 7th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

Radiant says:

Laptop [for work only]: Dell Latitude XT [core 2 duo 1.33ghz windows xp tablet]

Box [for games]: Single core P4 3ghz [shut up!]
2gb mem
ATI x1950 pro [agp...again...shut up!]
XP

July 7th, 2008 at 3:53 pm

Vanderdecken says:

Built mine last August, so almost coming up to its first birthday with only one hardware change – addition of soundcard.

Intel Core2Duo E6750 2.66 GHz, stock cooler
Asus P5N32-E SLI (nForce 680i)
GeIL 2GB (2×1GB) PC6400C5 800MHz DDR2 RAM
BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS 640MB (the original)
Corsair HX520W PSU
Samsung HD501LJ 500GB HDD SATA300
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music
2 x DVD -RW DL & Lightscribe drives, IDE
22″ LG L226WTQ LCD @ 1680×1050
Thermaltake VA9003BWS Kandalf Full Tower
Logitech G15 Keyboard (the original, blue one) and MX518 mouse
Sennheiser PC161 headset

No gamepad.

July 7th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

Ian Dorsch says:

PC: Custom Built
CPU: AMD Opteron 165, overclocked to 2.25 GHz
Mobo: ASUS A8N Premium
RAM: 3GB
GFX: Factory OCed EVGA 8800GTS 640MB
Storage: 3 internal HDDs: 80GB, 250GB, 500GB
Display: 20″ Dell WFP2007 Monitor
OS: Windows XP Pro

All the storage is for music/audio production. I’m due for an upgrade this winter, but this box has been good to me. I also occasionally game on my AMD TL-60/Radeon 2600HD/2GB RAM/Vista laptop.

July 7th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

Kareem says:

PC: Custom Built
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6550
RAM: 2 GB
GFX: 8800 GTS 320 MB
Storage: 300 GB Western Digital
Display: Acer 19 inch LCD (widescreen)
OS: Windows Vista

Got a Logitech gamepad.

July 7th, 2008 at 4:16 pm

BlakeBot says:

Desktop (to be replaced this november):
Athlon 64 3000+
Radeon X1600 Pro
SoundBlaster Live! 5.1
1.5GB RAM
200 GB HD
17″ CRT
WinXP

Laptop:
Dell Vostro 1500 (15″ LCD)
1.6GHz Core 2 Duo
GeForce 8600M GT
2GB RAM
120 GB HD
WinXP

July 7th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

Horatio77 says:

My home system, similar to LQB above:

CPU : Q6600 OC’d to 3.2Ghz (ZEROtherm Nirvana NV120 heatsink)
GPU : ECS 8800GT (Not OC’d, passively cooled)
MOBO : Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
RAM : 8GB A-Data DDR2-800 (4x 2GB)
HDD : Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.0
OS : Windows Vista 64bit Home Premium
DISPLAY: 21″ NEC CRT
CASE: Antec P182 Gun Metal Black
CONTROLLER: Xbox 360

Custom built, mostly from NewEgg. 8 gigs of ram was so cheap I was giggling when I installed it. It’s pretty dang quiet too.

July 7th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

Unheard Of says:

I’ve got a Shuttle small form factor mobo & case with a Athlon 3Ghz (although this is ‘performance rated’ – i.e. a lie), 1gig RAM and an ATI X1600 Pro. Most of it’s about 5 years old as I only replace parts when they fail. It runs windows XP and xubuntu.

It manages last years games with a bit of chugging. I normally keep a couple of good books handy to occupy my mind while levels load, as it takes an inordinately long time.

July 7th, 2008 at 4:44 pm

dan^ says:

Processor: Pentium 4 2.4GHz (the pre Hyper Threading one)
Memory: 1GB DDR
Hard Drive: 160GB Seagate Barracuda
Video Card: GeForce 7600 GS AGP
Motherboard: Intel somethingorother
Monitor: Sony SDM-HX73
Sound Card: SoundBlaster Audigy 2
Operating System: Windows XP Home SP 3
Keyboard: Microsoft MultiMedia Keyboard 1.0A (with the annoying F Lock nonsense)
Mouse: Logitech MX510
Gamepad: Wireless Xbox 360 Controller

July 7th, 2008 at 4:55 pm

KindredPhantom says:

Processor:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory:
2048MB RAM
Hard Drive:
500 GB Total
Video Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Monitor:
ViewSonic VA1703w-2 SERIES
Sound Card:
Realtek HD Audio output
Speakers/Headphones:
Fatal1ty Gaming Headset
Keyboard:
Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
Mouse:
Razer 1600dpi 3 Buttons Optical Mouse
Mouse Surface:
cushioned mouse mat
Operating System:
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2

July 7th, 2008 at 5:20 pm

Valentin Galea says:

I only have a 486 DX2 at 66Mhz… I mainly use it for browsing but from time to time I ran a little Crysis but with no anti-aliasing unfortunately – tends to slow it down a bit.

July 7th, 2008 at 5:46 pm

CitizenErazed says:

Right, let’s see. Two systems in this flat. One is a core 2 duo E8200 (running at 2.66ghz, overclocking is for suckers*) with 4gb ram and a GeForce 8800GT. Attached to that is one 19″ widescreen monitor and one 17″ 4:3 monitor. Oh, and a Creative Audigy 2 pro (WHY DO PEOPLE USE ONBOARD SOUND. WHY. IT SOUNDS TERRIBLE). That system dual-boots Windows XP Pro and SuSE Linux 11.0. The other system in the flat has an Athlon XP64 3200+, 2gb ram and a GeForce 6800GT, on a 17″ 4:3 monitor and an Audiophile m-series soundcard. This system dualboots SuSE Linux 11.0 and Slackware (yeah, it’s not really a gaming system, I use it for servers sometimes and emulation. Mostly it’s a media server/I can’t be bothered to go ten feet to look at the internet box). Between the two are well over 3TB of hard disk storage.

*Please, please, please, do not take this as an opportunity to call me a clueless n00b or tell me why I’m wrong. It’s just my opinion. That system handles Crysis on high with no problems, and there are few better systems in the hands of the average consumer. So why overclock? Why potentially damage the chip, void its warranty and decrease it’s life for the sake of another seven fps?

July 7th, 2008 at 5:46 pm

Klaus says:

OMG CitizenErazed u r such a n00b!!

Seriously though, I’ve always joke that only a NASA computer can handle Crysis. But it seems I’m pretty close. Somewhat close. Though I have little desire to play Crysis. I don’t even know what it’s about.

Wikipedia here I come. Bring me to your inaccurate tales.

July 7th, 2008 at 5:59 pm

Qwertylicious says:

Core 2 Duo E2180 OC’d from 2.0 to 2.8GHz
4GB DDR2 RAM
320MB 8800GTS Graphics Card
24” TFT Screen
500GB HDD
WindowsXP Pro (the only choice)
More fans than you can shake a stick at.

Fun fact: This computer is the reason why half my evenings are wasted at Sainsbury’s.What else are students meant to spend their money on?

July 7th, 2008 at 6:14 pm

Dave says:

Core 2 Duo E6300

recently upgraded to:
4GB Ram
512MB 8800GT
21.6″ widescreen LCD

July 7th, 2008 at 6:28 pm

PsyW says:

I have a main PC:
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (single core, getting on for obsolete)
1GB of Crucial ballistix memory (just the one)
GeForce 7900 GTX

Logitech G15 and G7 (keyboard and mouse)
NEC 20WGX2 widescreen monitor
Lacie D3 external drive running on FW800.
Some broken speakers (I’m using headphones atm).

WinXP ftw.
No gamepads. I have a laptop, but it can barely run source-engine games, and it can’t handle the orange box source engine at all. I can play Freelancer on it, which strangely I cannot do on my main PC…

I wanted to upgrade my CPU, but it’s socket 939. If anyone knows where I can still find a decent multi-core 939 processor, let me know. Unfortunately, if not I’ll have to wait for something to break and then strip the lot out. New mobo, CPU and RAM, since they’re all obsolete now.

July 7th, 2008 at 6:32 pm

Stelios says:

Upgraded a few months ago; quite happy with it as I can play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. & Battlefield 2 at maximum settings at 1440×900…

E2160 (running at 3GHz)
GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L motherboard
XFX Nvidia 9600 GT (mildly overclocked)
2 GB G.Skill DDR2 RAM
LIAN-LI PC-A05B case
Western Digital 500 GB HD
Original (red) Momo Force wheel
Logitech G7 laser cordless mouse
19″ LCD, widescreen (cannot remember brand).
Cheap Kensington keyboard
1 x DVD drive
1 x DVD/RW drive

Oh and a dusty “custom painted” (ie crap rattle can paintjob) black Amiga 1200 next to it.

July 7th, 2008 at 6:47 pm

Fat Zombie says:

Gaze upon my mighty system, fiends, and FEAR:

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (Socket A, just about 2GHZ)
Graphics: ATi Radeon X1600Pro (AGP, 512MB)
RAM: 1GB (Maybe DIMM, probably DDR)
Sound: C-Media 8738 (Gives me constant trouble)
Other Stuff: DVD drive, CD-RW drive, Network card, LCD of some sort, Dell mouse & keyboard (usurped from another person’s PC)

It runs HL2 very admirably, TF2 well, STALKER + Bioshock surprisingly playable, Crysis just about runs. I have had the system for a few years now.

I plan to upgrade within the next month or so; spend best part of a grand on some game-spanking super-beast. (Compared to my system, that would be fairly easy)

July 7th, 2008 at 6:55 pm

DaFox says:

Im currently on:
Intel Core 2 Duo e4300 @ 3.0GHz
Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6
2Gigs of OCZ Platinum Rev2.0
NVIDIA 8800GTX
Seagate 500GB 7200.10
Corsair HX620
Samsung DVD Burner
Antec 900
Saitek Gamers Keyboard
Logitech MX518
And I switch around monitors every month.

July 7th, 2008 at 7:01 pm

thunder_monkey says:

AMD Dual Core 4800+
2GB
Nvidia 9600 something or other [512MB]

No game pads.

July 7th, 2008 at 7:14 pm

A-Scale says:

Currently on a pathetic AMD 64 2.0 GHz machine with 1 gig of ram and a donated x700 pro card. In 3 days I will be on a top shelf Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz with 4 gigs of OCZ Reaper ram (3.3 recognized due to XP), an 8800GTS pre-overclocked to 678MHz core and an Asus P5N-D motherboard. It will fly.

July 7th, 2008 at 7:26 pm

unclebulgaria says:

Telly: A64 3000, 1GB RAM, 200GB HDD, 6800GT.

Bedroom: Q6600, 4GB RAM, 8800GTX, 1TB across about 7 drives, 2 * 20″ monitors on some cheapo PCI-X gfx card, 1 * 30″ widescreen.

Plus a laptop that can just about manage FM2008.

A 360 wireless pad that moves around a bit depending on where I am.

XP except as required for work – then Slackware as required.

July 7th, 2008 at 7:39 pm

Knijn says:

Up until around a year ago I had taken a break from gaming and was focusing mainly on university and related activities. My machine was a decent Athlon64 with 2GB RAM, but it had only a Geforce2 MX for graphics.

It has since been replaced by this:
ASUS P5B
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
2GB RAM
Geforce 8600 GTS
17″ Samsung Syncmaster (this one’s likely to stay until it dies, or I decide to get a dual-monitor setup)

I got a wired Xbox 360 gamepad a few weeks ago to play GRID.

July 7th, 2008 at 7:45 pm

waffles says:

2.14 ghz CTD, 2gb of ram, 1950 pro, XP pro, logitech G5, 19 inch screen.
I do however have a saitek p2600.
woo!

July 7th, 2008 at 7:58 pm

DragonSix says:

Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3ghz
Geforce 8800 GT 512mo
2go DDR2 ram

Three joypads : 3 DualShock Adaptators.

July 7th, 2008 at 8:28 pm

Pootank says:

My aging pc started as an opteron 1.8 with 1 gb ram and a 7800gt then and sli’d 7800 gt’s

but is now

athlon fx 60 oc to 2.8
2 gb ram
nf4 mobo
8800 gt
xfi sound
19″ 4:3
xp

5 hds @1.45 TB (I dont like burning dvds :S)

watercooling on cpu nb and vga

and I have the pad you got with prince of persia sands of time (not sure what make it is)

and I use this pc for folding/browsing/tv/film/games casual and ‘real ones’

July 7th, 2008 at 9:14 pm

dhex says:

amd opteron 180+
2 gb ram
3 hard drives (1 sata, 2 ide, about 600gb total storage)
evga 8800 gts 640mb
27″ viewsonic lcd tv
delta 1010 soundcard
windows xp

i use a sony dualshock 2 with a ps2–>usb converter

July 7th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

ruaidhri says:

too bloody many ..

1 core 2 quad @3.2ghz
ati 1950 thingy
4 gig ram
running on xp so part of the ram never registers (stoopid me)

1 ancient box running ubuntu happily

1 medium spec box that does some light gaming or works as server.

1 p4 laptop that sit under the telly and keepsme entertained while the missus is watching hollyoaks.

1 imac g4 (20″one)

2 psps

1 wii

and a rubbish old laptop i use to prop open a door

sweet mercy i need a clear out – i aint even used my proper one in a week

July 7th, 2008 at 9:31 pm

Davik says:

Not that it will get read, all the way down here but all my PC gaming takes place on the machine I built this last xmas.

It contains:
Q6600 running at 3GHz
4GB DDR2 800MHz RAM
Inno3D 8800GT running at 700MHz Core, 2000MHz Clock
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music
Gigabyte P35C-DS3R
~400GB HDD Space
Lovely P182 Mirror Finish
24″ VA Panel Monitor
5.1 Creative Surround Sound

Although I do not own a gamepad, I do own a Wii, and several controllers. I have also just bought a wireless Sensor Bar and a Bluetooth Dongle, so I shall soon have a Wiimote for my PC.

=D

July 7th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

Charlie says:

22inch LG monitor
Intel Core2duo E6600
2gb 667 Ram
8800GTS 312mb
Vista 32bit, I’ve got 64 bit but its shite apparantly.
That’s as much as I can be arsed to type about it. I have an amp and some awesome Gale monitors and a huge Gale subwoofer. Also got a 360 so use that for my pc. They really are the best controller for pc IMHO.

July 7th, 2008 at 10:31 pm

Duoae says:

Dual boot Win 2k and Vista

Pentium 4 3 GHz,
2 GB DDR 3200 RAM
X1950Pro 512 MB
Audigy 2 ZS

Runs most games fine though Dirt stuck its nose and middle fingers up at it. I’m beginning to feel the pain of not having a dual core but that’s only in 1% of the games out there.

July 7th, 2008 at 10:44 pm

Nick says:

Bought a new gaming PC about a year ago.

Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz
4GB RAM
2 x GeForce 8800 GTX
320 GB hard drive
Vista :(

Until last month I had a laptop that was pretty good for gaming in 2004 and could just about handle WoW. Planning on getting a new laptop, but more for writing than gaming.

July 7th, 2008 at 10:51 pm

Phil White says:

Athlon 4000 (can reach 2.9)
2 GB (400 MHz)
1950 XTX (AGP)
80 GB hard drive
BenQ 24″ monitor (doubles as a PS3 screen)
Audigy 4 Pro
Behringer MS20 speakers
Windows XP

I have a whole bunch of pads and a G25.

July 7th, 2008 at 11:00 pm

The Shed says:

Heh. Shit. (OK maybe I don’t have it as bad as that guy ^)

Advent 3418- 3.2GHz Hyper-Threading (the only decent bit)
Intel P4 Processor
RADEON X700 Series 256MB
512MB DDR RAM (Somebody…kill me… please…)
200GB HD
WinXP

Yep.. I haven’t run a good game on this since FarCry, and even that didn’t run too well. Oh and Half-Life 2. And maybe Obvlivion. But understand that they were all jerky as fuck due to my incredible 1/2G of RAM. Yussss.

July 7th, 2008 at 11:43 pm

mkreku says:

Intel Core 2 Duo Q6600 (@3.2 GHz)
2 GB Crucial Ballistix 1066 MHz (running XP so I haven’t installed the other 2 GB yet)
Sapphire Radeon 4870 HD 512 MB GDDR5 (love it!)
750 GB Hitachi hard drive (250 + 500)

Using Windows XP Pro Swedish SP3 (32-bit), no gamepad.

July 8th, 2008 at 1:03 am

Lavitz says:

I have desktop as my secondary comp now. P4 ht 2.8 ghz, 1.5 gb ram , 7800 gs oc (agp)
My main gaming machine is my laptop.
sager 2090
intel core 2 duo 2.2 ghz (sent in for repair) (overheating)
2gb of ram (soon 4)
8600 gt 512 mb
with a zalman nc 2000 cooler
razer deathadder (sent in for repair) (mouse cursor jumping)
Gamepad – I own a microsoft $2 gamepad which is fine for now. i’m going to wait for the steam gamepad to come out and wait for sf 4 to come out and dmc 4
——–
Btw just a note I am really starting to hate how games get released when its school time. Like please!! summer !! ill even buy the crummy games.(pirate)

July 8th, 2008 at 1:33 am

Rufust Firefly says:

I just got my new machine last week–spent much of the weekend playing Half-Life 2 and Darwinia, of all things.

Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E8400 (2x 3.0GHz/6MB L2 Cache/1333FSB), 4GB of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT 512MB, no gamepad.

I used to game on a Dell Latitude 620 that work gave me, it’s like night and day.

I also have designs on a MacBook Pro at some point in the future. Still tying to get work to buy that one for me.

July 8th, 2008 at 2:35 am

Phil H says:

New(ish) e-peen go! –

os- WinXP Service Pack 3
cpu- Xeon E3110(AKA Core 2 Duo E8400) @3.00GHz
mobo- Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3P
ram- 2GB Kingston 1066MHz DDR2
video- eVGA 512MB 8800GT
audio- (First Gen!) Audigy Gamer, ancient Antec surround sound(with dead rear speakers, woo :|)
drives- 500GB WD SATA 3.0Gb/s, 20x Samsung Dual Layer burner
displays- Sceptre Naga III 20″ widescreen LCD, NEC Accusync 90 19″ CRT
input: Saitek Eclipse II keyboard, Logitech gaming mouse whose model escapes me at the moment, and a wireless XBox 360 controller as a gamepad/remote
connection- 1.5Mbps Down/1Mbps Up DSL

July 8th, 2008 at 3:15 am

WaveMaster says:

My current rig :
OS :Windows Vista Ultimate
Athlon x2 6400+ dual core
4 gb ram g skill
evga GeForce 8800 GT
Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer
Logitech Z2300 2.1 Sound System
1x 500 gb wd hdd
21.6″ Widescreen Samsung Display
Saitek Eclipse Keyboard
Logitech MX518 Mouse

1x xbox360 wired controller and 1x logitech cordless rumblepad

July 8th, 2008 at 4:06 am

luckystriker says:

Self built gaming rig:
Core2 Quad Q6600 2.40GHz / LGA775 Quad-Core / 1066 MHz / 8MB / 65nm
Asus P5K Mobo
4GB RAM, GEIL Platinum Revision DDR2 800
MSI GeForce 8800GT OC
500GB(?) Western Digital HD
Soundblaster X-Fi Audigy soundcard
Saitek Eclipse backlit keyboard
Razor Diamondback mouse
19″ Samsung LCD 1280×1024 native resolution
Vista Ultimate 64-bit OS

I have a crappy Dell laptop for emails, work and such. I have a nice low-friction mouse pad, but no game pad unfortunately.

July 8th, 2008 at 5:33 am

Subsonic says:

My gaming machine, Zardoz:

Dell UltraSharp 2407FP monitor
nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB graphics card
Rosewill RX850 850 W power supply
Antec 900 case
eVGA nForce 680i SLI motherboard
Intel E6600 dual-core 2.4 GHz cpu
2 GB Corsair memory
WD Raptor 150 Gb hard drive
500 GB Seagate hard drive

Running Vista Ultimate SP1. Hate gamepads!

July 8th, 2008 at 6:45 am

Nallen says:

E6600, 2Gb DDR2 533, 360Gb SATA HDD, on board sound.
8800GTX, 2x 19″ Monitors.

Oh and an Xbox pad.

July 8th, 2008 at 8:01 am

Jetsetlemming says:

Current PC:
Dell Dimension 2400
Pentium 4 2.66 Ghz Processor
1 GB DDR Ram
PCI Radeon 9250 256 MB Vram
SoundMAX integrated audio
70 GB Maxtor Hard Drive
17″ AOC CRT Monitor
Standard Dell keyboard
GE 5 button dual scroll wheel optical mouse

New PC I’m 2/3 of the way saved up for, should have it by August:
Custom built PC
Cooler Master Centurion case
Gigabyte GA-P35 motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4 Ghz Processor
4 GB G.Skill DDR2 800 RAM
NVidia Geforce 9600 GT 512 MB vram Video Card
Western Digital 500 GB SATA HDD
Pioneer 20X DVD-RW drive
CORSAIR CMPSU 650 Watt Power Supply
Acer 22″ Widescreen LCD Monitor

Same keyboard and mouse. Maaaybe a new keyboard, we’ll see. I’m buying it all from Newegg, except the monitor which will come from TigerDirect.

I’ve got a Logitech USB controller that’s a PS2 controller knockoff except with no rumble.

July 8th, 2008 at 9:33 am

Andrew says:

I have an AMD Athlon 3500 XP, bought about 4 years ago, although I upgraded it to have an ATI X1900 GT last year. Only 1024mb RAM, but that has sufficed until now.

I’m probably going to upgrade again later this year, as I can probably get a really good PC for about £500, leaving out the monitor and keyboard and mouse and so on.

I don’t have a gamepad but I do have a Logitech Force 3D joystick, which I bought last month.

July 8th, 2008 at 10:56 am

a1ex says:

I used my XP3000 with 1gb RAM and GF6800GT for quite a while now, but decided I just had to buy something new.

So its a Q9450 and 4gb DDR2 on P43 chipset supported by a Radeon HD4850 now.

My laptop isnt a gaming machine and thats perfectly fine. Thinkpad X31 running Linux. (well I use that on the desktop as well, but dualboot for most of the games.)

July 8th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

Surgeon says:

ASUS P4C800-E
P4 3.2 : OC’d to 3.6
Geil Ultra-X : 2GB RAM
HIS X16000XT 512MB AGP
Thermaltake Xaser VIII VM2000A Case
ST Audio DSP2000 Sound card
Sennheiser PC-150 Headset
2 x DVD Drives

About 700 odd GB in drive space, internal and external

21″ Cornerstone P1500 CRT Monitor & 15″ Dell TFT
Handy for digital crescent wanks
Handy for monitoring TeamSpeak

Old Compaq keyboard from my first ever PC. A DX-33.
Only the M key is a bit iffy so far.

Saitek Cyborg EVE joystick

I use PS2 joypads via a special USB dongle, but it’s a bit temperamental.

July 8th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

Michael Howard says:

I didn’t spot the gamepad question. I’ve had numerous PC gamepads over the years, and none have really done the job (apart from the old MS Sidewinder).

These days, I have a million and one different USB converters for console gamepads – from Saturn to Gamecube to Xbox. Far better than the PC controllers.

July 8th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

Chris R says:

Custom built:
Sonata II case
Athlon 64 3700+ (not overclocked) on an Asus A8N-E mobo
2 GB GSkill ram
Nvidia 8800GT
Dell 24″ widescreen monitor (love it!)
G9 mouse
1 TB of space, of which I’ve only used about 250 Gigs.
Win XP

Hate gamepads. No laptops.

I’ll upgrade the CPU and Mobo next and possibly get faster RAM and be good to go for the next gen of games.

The system runs everything on max except for Crysis, thanks to the killer 8800GT in there. The CPU does get a bit hot trying to keep up, but it is over 2 years old, so I don’t fault it for sweating.

July 8th, 2008 at 4:51 pm

radomaj says:

Self-built. In no particular order.

CPU: E2140 1,60 GHz overclocked to 3,0 GHz
RAM: 2 x 2048MB DDR2
GPU: GeForce 8800 GT
Motherboard: Drat! I forgot. Gigabyte S-series but what model number?
Display: 19″ LCD
Sound card: Sound Blaster Audigy 4
Power: 450W Chieftec
Input: common keyboard, 5-button 2-scroll mouse, a gamepad (PS2-like, without the vibrations)
Sound: Fatal1ty Headset / 2 column speakers; microphone
OS: Ubuntu/XP dual-boot (I use XP only for games, actually)
Storage: 466GB

July 8th, 2008 at 5:55 pm

Aorawn says:

Built from parts, baby.

AMD Phenom 9500 2.2GHz
2GB DDR2 800
MSI 7600GT
One 500 gig SATA hard drive and a 100 gig IDE
750w Rosewill PSU
I have a sound blaster audigy SE, but I just use my mobo’s onboard, Realtek Hi-def audio.
Logitech X-530 5.1 surround sound speakers
Logitech MX3000 wireless keyboard, and
Logitech MX600 wireless laser mouse
Asus M3A mobo
20.1″ widescreen Sceptre monitor
NZXT Apollo Black
Vista Ultimate 32-bit
And a 360 controller.

I’m very happy with my rig, though I plan on getting a beefier video card when I can afford one. Also, Vista is awesome, sue me (Yes, I’ve used XP and Linux).

July 8th, 2008 at 7:03 pm

minipixel says:

gaming pc: Athlon XP 2000+ @factory clock, 512mb ram, Radeon 9550. There is a lot of old stuff still worth playing :)

browsing pc: P3 @666 (yes, an evil pentium 3!)

I’m starting to keep up with all the 2.5/3ghz comps that other people are throwing away :)

July 8th, 2008 at 9:27 pm

Daniel Purvis says:

Oh, forgot t mention that I use the Xbox 360 controller as my PC gamepad.

@minipixel I still use an old 286 Portable Computer (it looks like a giant gray suitcase) to play the old text adventure games. Gives them a nostalgic quality.

July 9th, 2008 at 4:40 am

dangman4ever says:

(Gaming Rig)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13Ghz OC’d @ 3.2Ghz
AC7Pro HSF
GA-965P-DS3 Rev. 1.0 Motherboard
4 x 1GB G.Skill DDR2 800 Ram
Seagate 160GB, 400GB, & 1TB HDD
Maxtor 320GB HDD
NEC ND3550A DVD-RW
nVidia 8800GT 512MB PCI-E
Corsair 520HX 520W PSU
Antec P180 Case
Win XP Pro

(Laptop)
Intel Pentium M 1.6GHz OC’d @ 2.13Ghz
1GB DDR 333 DDR SODIMM
Samsung 120GB HDD
Samsung CD-RW/DVD-Rom
ATI Mobility Radeon X600 64MB
Win XP Pro

(Backup Rig) –
Intel Pentium 4 2.53Ghz CPU
1.5GB DDR 400 RAM
2 x WD 80GB HDD
ATI Radeon 9800Pro 128MB AGP
FSP AX450-PN 450W PSU
X-Dreamer II Case
Windows XP

As you can tell, I like to overclock my CPU :)

July 9th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

James says:

E6400, 4GB RAM, 8800 GTS 320 OC, Gigabyte 965P-DS3P, 74GB Raptor and 320GB Seagate all from a bit more than a year ago. 19″ CRT, 17″ LCD. Debian GNU/Linux, and I bet I’m the only freak who actually games under Linux, there’s no Windows on this computer at all. Valve and id games run fairly well, others not so much (Psychonauts has some horrid mouse lag) but I get by because I don’t actually game that much.

Laptop is a Asus W5A which has an i915 chipset, all it’s good for is playing ET. Also running Debian.

July 10th, 2008 at 1:53 am

rez says:

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.

July 10th, 2008 at 10:59 am

Donald Duck says:

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)

July 10th, 2008 at 12:40 pm

bluespacetiger says:

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?

July 10th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

Lep says:

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.

July 11th, 2008 at 4:53 pm

SlackBastard says:

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

October 7th, 2008 at 7:50 am