By Jim Rossignol on July 7th, 2008 at 9:01 am.
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?
07/07/2008 at 09:09 Nakki says:
I’ve got a crappy old Athlon 2600+, 1gb ram and a geforce 6800 GT. Used to play EVE with that. Then I bought a crappy Acer laptop, AMD TL-60 (dual core at 2ghz), 2gb and a radeon HD 2400 XT. It’d run EVE better than my old computer, except that you really need a better resolution than 1280×800 for that game – the older computer has a 19″ widescreen with 1440×900, and that’s just barely enough.
Luckily, I just ordered a computer with Q9450, 4gb of ram, radeon 4870 and a 24″ monitor.
07/07/2008 at 09:09 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.
07/07/2008 at 09:15 Zarniwoop says:
This is a bit of a red rag to the penis-comparing men who largely inhabit the internet (which I can’t say I’m entirely not one of), but anyway:
My current computer is:
Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4 GHZ)
2 GB of 800MHz ram
about 800GB worth of storage
ATI 2900 pro graphics card
And an xbox 360 controller.
07/07/2008 at 09:16 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).
07/07/2008 at 09:18 kalain says:
I’m happy with my current pc at the moment. 2.2ghz Core 2 Duo, 2GB ram, 9600GT. Can even play Crysis on Very High settings without breaking into too much of a sweat.
07/07/2008 at 09:20 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.
07/07/2008 at 09:20 Philip says:
Self-build:
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2160 1.8 Ghz (OC @ 2.8 Ghz)*
2 GB Corsair TwinX Dominator DDR2 PC2-8500 RAM
nVidia Geforce 7800GT 256 MB**
MSI P35 Neo2-FR Motherboard
2x Samsung Spinpoint 80 GB 7200 RPM HD in RAID0
1x Samsung Spinpoint 250 GB 7200 RPM HD
Coolermaster Centurion Case
Iiyama CRT Monitor
Microsoft Wireless Keyboard/Mouse
Generic Gamepad/Joystick
Logitech MOMO FFB Racing Wheel
* For a £50 chip, OC’s very well – up to 2.8 Ghz without changing voltages, temps around 30-45 degrees with a £15 Coolermaster HyperTX2 CPU fan.
** To be replaced (CityLink willing) with nVidia Geforce 8800GT 512 MB (£90 @ eBuyer.com!!) sometime tomorrow afternoon. Haha Oblivion – who’s your Daddy now…? :-P
07/07/2008 at 09:21 Cargo Cult says:
Mid-range, late-2007 Apple iMac. Do I win?
(Alternate machine is an early-2006 MacBook Pro. No gamepads here. Winner!)
07/07/2008 at 09:22 Chris says:
My main PC is a Dell XPS420 – Q6600 with a Radeon HD3270, 3GB RAM, etc. It’s not broken a sweat at anything I’ve thrown at it yet. Race Driver: GRID looks beautiful with everything cranked up high.
My laptop is another Dell, an Inspiron 1520 – C2D 1.8GHz, 2GB RAM, GeForce M8600GT. Less grunty than my main PC, but still absolutely fine for playing most games so long as you don’t want ultra-maxi-prettiness – it runs Mass Effect playably with the settings on medium, although it chugs a bit during the fast action sequences.
Both run Vista, which apparently I am alone in loving.
Also, I’ve got a wired XBox 360 pad that I use with my main PC, because playing GRID on the keyboard is no fucking fun whatsoever.
07/07/2008 at 09:22 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
07/07/2008 at 09:22 Manolo says:
PC:
Core 2 Duo E6320
2GB 800Mhz RAM
Nvidia 8800GT
Mediacenter:
AMD Sempron 3100
1.5GB 400Mhz RAM
ATI 2600
4 Playstation Gamepads and the adapter for plugging them on the PC.
But I only play Stalker and Titan Quest on the PC. The rest is Mario Kart for the Wii, which is such an impressive, addictive and beautiful game.
07/07/2008 at 09:23 Jesucristo says:
I have a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k
07/07/2008 at 09:23 rob says:
EEE with DOSBox and Wine.
07/07/2008 at 09:23 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.
07/07/2008 at 09:26 Theory says:
I have an Amilo Xi1546 laptop, configured like this:
Core2Duo T5500 (1.66MHz, 32-bit)
2GB RAM (upgraded)
Mobility Radeon X1800, 256MB
17″ widescreen
Vista HP
I have a wired Xbox 360 controller.
07/07/2008 at 09:26 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).
07/07/2008 at 09:27 Jonas says:
I own a rapidly aging self-built PC with a 2.4 GHz Athlon 64 3800 CPU, an HIS Radeon X1900XT that still performs admirably, and 2 GB of DDR2 RAM. It has 2 Samsung 19″ TFT monitors and an old set of Creative 5.1 speakers that came with a Soundblaster card I no longer use. I don’t have any gamepads specifically for my PC, but I’ve been meaning to hook one of my Xbox 360-controllers up to it and see if it works.
Can’t be long now until I’ll have to upgrade again. Surely when Far Cry 2 comes out, I will need to get a Phenom quad core at least and possibly even some manner of DX10-enabled video card as well (in which case it will certainly be nVidia).
I also have a moderately beefy laptop (Core 2 Duo somethingorother, GeForce 7600 Go, 2GB RAM), but the only game I ever run on it is Deus Ex, for testing purposes.
07/07/2008 at 09:27 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/).
07/07/2008 at 09:28 John P (Katsumoto) says:
I got the Chillblast Fusion Colossosus! Core 2 Duo E6550 2.3ghz overclocked to 2.9ghz, with a 320mb 8800 GTS, 2gb of RAM and running Vista. I own a 360 gamepad (and whilst we’re at it, a Cyborg Evo joystick!).
Runs most games very smoothly, except Crysis and, bizarrely, Gears of War (I hear it has a problem with overclocked CPUs).
07/07/2008 at 09:31 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.
07/07/2008 at 09:32 Faust says:
I’ve got a Dell XPS (can’t remember the number).. running a 8600GTX with 4 gig of Ram… 500gig RAID harddrives and some other stuff that I can’t remember… and as far as gamepads go I’ve got four xbox 360 controllers for my xbox… does that count?
07/07/2008 at 09:32 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
07/07/2008 at 09:36 Bas says:
E6400 OC’d to 3 GHz
3GB RAM
8800GT
Bought it about 2 years ago, and with only 2 upgrades (videocard and 1 GB of ram), it still plays most modern games with all settings on high.
07/07/2008 at 09:37 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.
07/07/2008 at 09:38 Gap Gen says:
Q6600
2GB RAM
Some HHD I guess, probably 500GB
8800 GTS 640 MB
22-inch LG monitor
In the office I have a Mac Pro, because apparently I do mean things to computers like make them calculate the formation history of astronomical objects.
07/07/2008 at 09:39 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.
07/07/2008 at 09:40 davidAlpha says:
intel core 2 duo 6750E (2.333mhz I believe)
4 gig GEIL OC ram.
8800 GT 512DDR
And i have an microsoft gamingpad
this one
07/07/2008 at 09:42 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.
07/07/2008 at 09:43 Stuart W says:
I have 2 pcs
Main PC (for all main gameplaying and work)- 2.4Ghz Q6600 Core 2 Quad , 4GB RAM Nvidia 8800 GTS. Around 500GB hard drive space.
Second PC (almost entirely for networked gaming) – 2.2 Ghz Athlon 64, 2Gb RAM, i forget the graphics card.
Both run Vista.
I have 3 gamepads (2 x PS2, 1 x XB360) used almost entirely for PES.
I also have an old Dell Laptop which doesn’t do much nowadays despite wielding a reasonable Pentium 4 and 1gb of RAM.
07/07/2008 at 09:48 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.
07/07/2008 at 09:48 Philip says:
@ Tacticus:
Please don’t bother with the 9600GT. It’s slower that the 8800GT, has no extra features compared to the 8800GT, and can be found for around the same price. Don’t fall for the “bigger number = better card” trick! :-)
07/07/2008 at 09:52 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.
07/07/2008 at 09:52 spirit7 says:
C2D E6600, 4gb RAM, 8800 GTS 640mb, 600-odd GB HDD space. No gamepad.
07/07/2008 at 09:56 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.
07/07/2008 at 10:00 SZayat says:
PC: Custom Built
CPU: Athlon 64 X2 6400 3.2GHz
Mobo: Foxconn NF590 SLI (C51XEM2AA-8EKRS2H)
RAM: 2GB (4x512MB)
GFX: Foxconn 8800GTS 320MB
Storage: 520GB (400 120)
Display: 20″ HP 17″ Samsung Monitor
OS: Windows Vista Business SP1
07/07/2008 at 10:00 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
07/07/2008 at 10:01 Markus says:
Intel Core2Duo E6600 (running at 3.0 GHz)
ATI X1950XTX, 512MB
3GB RAM (DDR2 800)
24″ CRT, Sony FW900
19″ CRT, Philips 109P4
Windows XP
XBOX 360 Gamepad
To this very day, I can not get S.T.A.L.K.E.R. to run :/
07/07/2008 at 10:03 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?).
07/07/2008 at 10:03 gulag says:
Mobo is an MSI Platinum series
Antec Neopower 650 power supply
Quad core Intel something or other
4 gigs of Ram
about 750gb storage
8800 GTX card
20″ widescreen
Keyboard & mouse
Wacom tablet (Not great for FPS)
Self built and all good!
07/07/2008 at 10:07 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?
07/07/2008 at 10:08 Pavel says:
Intel Core2Duo E4400@3.0ghz
2Gigs RAM@750mhz
ATI X1900XT@X 512MB
200GB Samsung SATA2
Gigabyte P35-DS3R
19″ CRT Belinea
Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 (5 years old and still kicking like new)
Gamepad logitech dual action, but I don’t use it…even game like MGS2 Substance (which am playing right now) I prefer on keyboard (wsadqe+space+numpad).
07/07/2008 at 10:08 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.
07/07/2008 at 10:10 roryok says:
@Philip
Philip, the 9600GT is only marginally slower than the 8800GT, and is considerably cheaper in some cases. More importantly, it consumes considerably less power, and is quieter overall. That bigger number means a more advanced iteration of the chip which can perform the same using far less power. In that sense, it’s a far better card.
07/07/2008 at 10:11 groovychainsaw says:
E6600 core 2 duo, 8800gt, 2GB 800mhz mem, 21″ screen, XP, xbox 360 pad, bit overkill for playing warcraft tho! ;-)
07/07/2008 at 10:11 shinygerbil says:
4 years ago, I left for uni, having purchased a laptop from eBay, which sadly was meant “for doing work” and even more sadly was only really capable of “doing work”. It was an HP Pavilion ze5400. It has a Pentium 4 2.66GHz – the “full version” as it were, not a mobile powersaving version, meaning basically that it overheats something chronic; it also has a Radeon IGM345M, which is essentially a cut-down version of a Radeon 7000, with 64MB shared RAM and native DX8 support. It could just about cope with Half-Life 1. Oh, and half a gig of RAM. (minus the 64MB stolen by the graphics card.)
4 years on, and my parents have just bought a spanking new 22-inch Mac, and given me their old computer, unchanged from when I left for uni. I’ve since stuck a new graphics card in.
AMD Athlon XP 2000
nVidia GeForce 7600GS (pretty much the best AGP card still in existence money can buy)
2GB RAM (crappy, unbranded stuff)
80GB of crappy old IDE hard drive
Does for the Source engine, and that’s pretty much the most challenging thing I want to play. Copes with Stalker OK, and even BioShock, providing I don’t have unrealistic expectations about setting everything to High, but it farts out a bit occasionally. I am told that my CPU is actually the bottleneck here. Not much I can really do about that, stupid single-core 32-bit socket :(
I have a lovely 360 gamepad, and also I occasionally plug in my Rock Band guitar to play Frets on Fire. I also have an original Logitech WingMan RumblePad (circa 2000ish) kicking around, if ever I had the need for multiplayer-on-one-PC.
07/07/2008 at 10:11 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.
07/07/2008 at 10:11 The Sombrero Kid says:
Q6600
8800GT
4GB 800 DDR2
xbox 360 controller
on a separate note what genius decided to make the deadzone on the 360 controller micro sized and non configurable, I tried playing FF8 on it, which was a mistake in itself lol and the guy ran around like a nut at the slightest twitch.
a bigger deadzone or you know not registering a digital press until it’s all the way to the top would be the obvious solution, but i reckon there’s probably a logic issue with that so i’d settle for a configurable deadzone tried some shareware app but then i remembered i didn’t like FF8 anyway and the app didn’t work and was way to complicated.
in short Microsoft needs to pull their finger out I reckon and I need to stop trying to play shit dodgy ports of shit dodgy games.
07/07/2008 at 10:16 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
07/07/2008 at 10:19 tonypiz says:
My gaming pc:
CPU: Athlon X2 4200 (overclocked to 2,6 GHz)
RAM: 2GB DDR400
GPU: PNY 8800gt (slightly overclocked)
Monitor: 19″ Philips LCD
Mouse: Logitech G5
OS: Windows XP SP2
Storage: Counting the two 500GB external hard drives, it’s more or less 1,6 terabytes.
Joypads: An old PSone Dual Shock with adapter, a Saitek pad and a couple of others of mostly unknown brands which at the moment I don’t remember.
All self built and upgraded when the need arises.
07/07/2008 at 10:21 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.
07/07/2008 at 10:22 Plushpants says:
Opteron 165 @2.6ghz
2gb DDR400
8800GT 512mb
19″ LCD
WinXP
Logitech gamepad (PS2 ripoff)
07/07/2008 at 10:22 roryok says:
@Gap Gen
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 =)
07/07/2008 at 10:25 Drakkenson says:
Athlon x2 4600
2gb ram
dfi MB
Leadtek Nvidia 7950gx2 (1 gb)
Gamepad: yes, several, in fact
07/07/2008 at 10:26 Dan says:
Q6600, GeForce 8800 GT, 2GB RAM, running XP. I don’t have a PC gamepad or a laptop.
07/07/2008 at 10:26 Alex Cox says:
Ageing Sony Vaio laptop with fairly low end ATI graphics / Ageing first-gen Intel Imac with similarly low end graphics and Parallels / Pentium D with a 7950GTX. Meh. The highest end thing I’m interested in playing on the PC is TF2, and my desktop box handles it marvellously. My 360 handles the rest of my gaming needs.
Oh, and no gamepad. Apart from an occassional PS2 pad for use with emulators and such.
07/07/2008 at 10:27 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.
07/07/2008 at 10:28 andrei.dumitrescu says:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 (I think)
2 GB RAM
300 GB hard
128 MB old graphics card (due for an upgrade)
Mouse & keyboard only (never used another controller)
07/07/2008 at 10:29 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.
07/07/2008 at 10:33 Philip says:
@ roryok:
Ok, fair point on the power consumption, although according to Tom’s Hardware the difference is only 10W in windows (120/130) and 20W under load (220/197), so the 8800 GT isn’t exactly a power hog.
My recent research into 8800GT vs. 9600GT is that although the 9600GT is about as fast as the 8800GT, and was originally cheaper, the price of the 8800GT has dropped whilst the 9600GT has remained static. You can therefore find both around the £90, with the 9600GT still cheaper but with only about £5-10 in it.
The 8800GT outperforms the 9600GT at higher resolutions. I believe the 9600GT has about half the stream processors of the 8800GT, but at a higher clock speed which mostly makes up for the difference. However, I felt that the 8800GT therefore had more room for overclocking in this respect, although I understand a lot of people wouldn’t want to fiddle too much.
So maybe my comment was a bit flippant above, but I still think the 8800GT is superior to the 9600GT now the prices have dropped.
EDIT: I’ll point out I refer to the 512MB version of the 8800GT above – the 9600GT 512MB comfortably outperforms the 256MB version of the 8800GT.
07/07/2008 at 10:33 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.
07/07/2008 at 10:33 Cargo Cult says:
Atari 520STFM, 8MHz 68000, 4MB memory, 230MB hard disk, TOS 2.06.
I’ve got a joystick for it somewhere, but the fire buttons are broken and it doesn’t like turning right any more.
07/07/2008 at 10:33 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).
07/07/2008 at 10:36 Malagate says:
Ahh my 2 years and 5 months old PC…
CPU: Pentium 4 3.0GHz (with HT!)
RAM: 2 GB DDR2
HDD: 250GB SATA2
Graphics: Nvidia, 512MB, I think it’s a 7800, no fan just a big heat sink.
OS: Windows XP Pro
Monitor: Dirt cheap Hanns G TFT, 19″ I think. Looks fine.
It runs all the new games I’ve bothered to try on it just fine, for instance Bioshock and TF2 still look spiffy.
Only problem I’ve had with it is the system itself getting old, sometimes it stutters and crashes to a halt with some interesting errors, but it seems the HDD might be getting too hot (despite it living in a massive heatsink) and before the heat sink for the CPU was really dirty.
I might not upgrade for another 3 or so years, unless something I really want to play comes out or it breaks. I’m certainly keeping with the XP though, as what I’ve seen about Vista has been both laughable and annoying.
07/07/2008 at 10:37 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.
07/07/2008 at 10:39 simonkaye says:
You know what’s weird? I’m reading ALL of these.
07/07/2008 at 10:41 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.
07/07/2008 at 10:45 brog says:
I’m curious to know what evil schemes you are gathering this data for. However, since I’m innocent and trusting, I will foolishly provide you with the numbers you seek:
ASUS Laptop with 1.66GHz Core 2 Duo, 2 Gb RAM, ATI Radeon X2300, Vista.
Also, I don’t think I have any “gamepads”. What the hell is a gamepad?
07/07/2008 at 10:47 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
07/07/2008 at 10:47 Mark-P says:
At this moment:
Athlon 3000XP, 768 MB RAM, X1650 Pro
Almost 5 years old now and it’s time to put it out to pasture. It would still be doing me fine, but the components are showing their age and it is developing a full blown senility that leaves it unable to run any games without bluescreening.
Rather than throw good money away trying to fix it ( PSU, j’accuse ), a Q9450 replacement system is on its way. So for a few brief months I can walk around grinning like an idiot until Nehalem comes along and wipes the smile off my face.
I have a gamepad, but don’t really play any games that require it.
I do hope developers are paying as much attention to the wide range of modest systems that people are playing on as VALVe and Blizzard are.
07/07/2008 at 10:47 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.
07/07/2008 at 10:47 JamesOf83 says:
Intel E6300
Vista 32 Home Premium
GeForce 8800 GTX
2GB RAM
300GB HDD
360 Controller
I also play Warcraft 3 and WoW on my Macbook.
07/07/2008 at 10:48 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.
07/07/2008 at 10:48 Poo Bear says:
Intel P4-3.4GHz
2Gig ram
80Gig HDD
nvidia 7600GT with 256MB
winXP
Laptop is Celeron 1.3GHz with 384MB ram and a nvidia GeForce GO with 16MB dedicated ram. Runs most 2d/3d indie games fine, but not much else.
07/07/2008 at 10:49 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…..
07/07/2008 at 10:49 Mungrul says:
Custom built here too.
Running an AMD X2 6400 running at the stock 3.2GHz.
4GB Corsair “Dominator” RAM.
Lost count of how much hard disk space I have, but I think it’s near to a TB at the mo.
One of the original 8800GTSes, one of the ones with 640MB.
Vista Ultimate 64Bit to take advantage of that 4GB.
Motherboard’s the Asus “Crosshair”.
Altec Lansing 5.1 set-up running on an X-Fi “Xtreme Gamer” Soundblaster.
GOt a MS Sidewinder Joystick and a Saitek dual-analog gamepad thingy
And I recently bought a luvverly pair of Sennheiser PC350 headphones with built-in mic. Expensive, but sooooo comfy.
For a mouse, I use a wired MS Laser thingy (MX9000 I think, not sure), and I have a beautiful Dell 2407 24″ widescreen TFT that I picked up cheap direct from Dell thanks to an Easter 07 promotion.
Just a bit non-plussed about the names of some of my components. Crosshair? Xtreme Gamer? DOMINATOR?
Ugh.
Still, they work. And at least my video card doesn’t have a pointless picture of virtual totty on it that you’re never likely to see.
Work recently bought me a nice little black Macbook with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM and a 250GB hard disk. Unfortunately, due to having an Intel video chipset, it isn’t great for modern games, but it plays Quake 3 nicely for our end-of-day deathmatch sessions :)
And Depths of Peril runs nicely on it, as well as Lumines.
07/07/2008 at 10:52 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).
07/07/2008 at 10:52 Patch says:
I don’t know, really. I bought all the pieces a few months ago, and since I don’t really need to worry about upgrading them for a bit, I haven’t bothered to remember what they are. I remember that it’s got 4 cores, and I think it’s got an nVidia card, and it’s definitely got a hard drive.
Yes, I know I could find out easily enough what is in there, but that would just be information in my head that I don’t care about. It plays most things on very high on a decent sized monitor; that’ll do for me.
07/07/2008 at 10:53 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.
07/07/2008 at 10:56 np says:
Intel Core 2 Quad QX6800
DFI 680i LT NF-680i LT SLI
OCZ GameXStream 850W PSU
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator DHX PC2-6400C4 * 2
BFG GeForce 768MB 8800GTX Ultra
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Pro
Western Digital Raptor 74 GB SATA 1
Seagate 500GB Barracuda SATA 3
XP 32 Pro (Vista is simply not stable enough for me yet.)
I own a 360 wired pad.
Very *hot* system, can increase room temp by 5C which is PITA in the summer but provides heating during the cold winter months.
My favourite thing is my BenQ FP241WZ 1920×1200 monitor though, which all my other other platforms plugs into, definitely worth the price tag!
07/07/2008 at 10:57 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.
07/07/2008 at 10:58 WanderingTaoist says:
Let’s see:
Athlon 64 3000
MSI K8N SLI Diamond board
nVidia 6600GT
2 GB RAM
WinXP Pro
It’s an oldie, but still a trusty machine: I played through BioShock on it and it plays TF2 just fine.
I burned through a lot of gamepads. I used Logitech Dual Shock gamepad for a long time, but then I bought the XBox360 pad for PC. The best gamepad on PC ever. Combination with Steam and Geometry Wars or Everyday Shooter is just perfect.
07/07/2008 at 11:02 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.
07/07/2008 at 11:02 Wurzel says:
I do all my computery stuff on my laptop;
Intel C2D 2 Ghz
nVidia 8600GT Go
2Gb Ram
Vista
Have to use a laptop cooler to stop the temps. going up to 90 degrees in games (:S) but works well otherwise. Also, XBox360 pad is excellent, especially with games for windows bringing in proper support for it for most x360 ports.
07/07/2008 at 11:05 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.
07/07/2008 at 11:06 Chris Keegan says:
Late 2007 Imac
Dual screen.
Processor Name:Intel Core 2 Duo
Bells:2
Processor Speed:2.4 GHz
Total Number Of Cores:2
L2 Cache (per processor):4 MB
Whistles:7
Memory:2 GB
Bus Speed:800 MHz
And Jonathan Ive is not a ponce :)
Hes one of are best designers we have from this country of Albion.
07/07/2008 at 11:09 skalpadda says:
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*
07/07/2008 at 11:12 SuperJax says:
Custom build over a long time:
E6750 O/C’d to 3.6ghz
4gig OCZ Reaper PC2-6400
9800GTX ‘Black Edition’ (O/C’d to 800mhz core)
Antec 900
Merc Stealth Z-Board
Razer Deathadder
and I got a Razer Exactmat mousepad.
As you can see, mainly a gaming PC, can run Crysis excellently on ‘Very High’ using a custom config (no AA, obviously), cos I only have a 19″ monitor
07/07/2008 at 11:12 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.
07/07/2008 at 11:17 Okami says:
Got my laptop two years ago:
Intel Core Duo 1.8 GHz
RAM: 1GB
nVidia Geforce 7900GTX 256MB
17″ 16:9 Display
Oh, and it’s orange!
I’ve got no Joypads for my PC..
Fun fact: I could upgrade my laptop with a new processor and more RAM but for the same price I could get a whole new desktop PC…
Well, I think I will still just upgrade it, because it looks so nice and I really don’t want to have a huge desktop PC standing aroung here.
07/07/2008 at 11:18 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.
07/07/2008 at 11:18 Steve says:
AMD Athlon X2 6400+ 2×2.3GHz dual core
4gb memory
GeFroce 8600 1024mb
Vista
22″ Widescreen Samsung monitor
07/07/2008 at 11:20 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.
07/07/2008 at 11:22 np says:
@WanderingTaoist:
“…but then I bought the XBox360 pad for PC. The best gamepad on PC ever. Combination with Steam and Geometry Wars or Everyday Shooter is just perfect.”
I must concurr, it is an awesome pad and Everyday Shooter is an awesome quick pick’n’play shooter while you wait for something to download. I can’t seem to use the dual sticks when they aren’t in the same relative horizontal alignment positions on the pad as they are on the DualShock leaving me to resort to using the XYAB buttons to shoot.
I have honestly been itching to buy Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved but promised myself only after I have completed Everyday Shooter.
Can you use the XYAB buttons to shoot in that?
07/07/2008 at 11:30 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.
07/07/2008 at 11:31 Dexton says:
Desktop:
Intel Core 2 6320@3ghz
4GB OCZ SLI DDR2 Ram
ATI 4870 512MB GFX Card
1TB Samsung Hard Drive
24″ Samsung Flatscreen Monitor
Soundblaster Audigy ZS
Win XP 32bit
No gamepad (have been looking at getting an xbox360 wireless pad for the lego games)
Also a cheap AMD Turion Laptop.
07/07/2008 at 11:32 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….
07/07/2008 at 11:36 phuzz says:
Ok…
Self build (mainly because I enjoy it, and it’s cheaper)
CPU: E8400 (oc’d to 3.6GHz)
4Gb RAM (it’s only £50 now)
some asus motherboard
nVidia 8800GT, I stuck a zalman cooler on because the original one was bloody noisy.
some harddrives (windows drive is an older model Raptor, which is nice)
Vista x64 (which has crashed about twice in 6 months, and is such way more stable and nice than my old XP system, well, it has to work for someone right? Oh, and I turned off the eye candy straight away)
No gamepads, but I did splash out on a fancy gaming mouse, the best bit of which is the non-sweaty-hand covering it’s got. Keyboard is a new, absolutely generic dell usb jobber, purely because I like the key action on it. And it was free, because I pinched it from work.
Various other self build monstrosities acting as files servers etc. (but not for gaming). And a Wii, which gets about half of my gaming time.
On the was is a little Acer Aspire One, ie an eee clone which might get some flash gaming on it.
If a 360 pad works well with GTA I might invest in the future.
07/07/2008 at 11:37 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.
07/07/2008 at 11:38 SuperJax says:
@Dexton
Nice card, been reading the reviews over at ars and on hexus. Wish I had held out for one, only had my GTX for a month…
07/07/2008 at 11:39 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.
07/07/2008 at 11:39 Cooper says:
P4, 2.8Ghz
1GB ram
Nvidia 7600 GT, 256MB (AGP – pre-PCI-E mobo)
150GB HD
20″ Widescreen, Samsung monitor
(bought for DVD watching and in preparation for eventual upgrade – I think clear sky will be the clincher which gets me to shell out)
I have a PS2 pad plugged in via a USB adaptor. Need to get a new one, as the current one doesn’t have vibration support.
07/07/2008 at 11:40 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).
07/07/2008 at 11:41 Feet says:
I forgot to mention, I have 360 pads for my PC that I could use, and a Saitek Cyborg Evo joystick for waggling on Freespace 2.
07/07/2008 at 11:41 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.
07/07/2008 at 11:42 Norswap says:
Inspiron 1520
Core 2 Duo T7250 2GHz
2 GB Ram
Geforce 8600M GT 512 MB
160 GB Hard Drive (but I plan to buy a external drive – this is a bit tight)
07/07/2008 at 11:43 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.
07/07/2008 at 11:45 Dan says:
Two desktops – an iMac Core Duo 2Ghz, Radeon X1600, 2GB RAM, 250Gb HD (mostly used for playing WoW 30hrs a week) and an Intel Q6600 2.4Ghz, NVidia 8800GS 384MB, 2GB RAM, 500Gb HD Not used half as often as I’d like due to WoW).
We’ve also got two Core 2 Duo laptops (a 1.6 & a 1.8Ghz), both 2GB RAM, the faster with NVidia 8400GS and the slower with Intel GMA950. Generally, my wife uses these to play Sims 2 or WoW and watch Green Wing or Friends. Often at the same time. I’ve also got an Asus EEE.
Probably got an old USB digital pad tucked away in a box, though I mean to pick up one of the nice 360 ones at some point.
07/07/2008 at 11:46 Riotpoll says:
Built by me:
Intel Q6600 clocked at 3Ghz
2x2GB 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
07/07/2008 at 11:51 spd from Russia says:
now A3000+ 7600gt
upgrading soon to c2d 3ghz+ and 4850 prolly (or whats the fastest 200$ card there is) to get ready for all the cool games coming this fall
and yes I have a gamepad for racing and some console ports
07/07/2008 at 11:52 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
07/07/2008 at 11:52 Philip says:
@ roryok
fair enough, I have a 512mb 9600gt so thats where I’m coming from
Yeah, I’m not trying to say the 9600GT is a bad card, but it’s being squeezed now the price of the 8800s are coming down.
I’m a little fed up with the posturing of graphics card’s naming. I’ve seen a number of forum posts where people have assumed that a card from a newer series will be quicker than one from the previous series. I mean, I’m an nVidia fanboy really, though looking back at my previous nVidia cards, it’s difficult to see why:
TNT2 M64 – cut down version of the much faster TNT2;
Geforce 4 MX440 – basically a Geforce 2 nVidia hadn’t sold, re-branded as a “next gen” card, when the basic Geforce 3′s were much quicker. Of course, at the time I didn’t have much PC smarts, so I believed the PC World rep who said the Geforce 4 was faster…
Geforce FX5600 – Geforce FX cards sucked. It was much faster than my “Geforce 2″, but that was because I was effectively jumping 3 generations, rather than the 1 the names would suggest;
Geforce 7800GT – the first “proper” card I’ve bought from the look of it, and nice it is too. But the £90 offer for the approximately 5x quicker 8800GT was too much of a temptation. Having said this, about 2 months after I’d bought the 7800GT for the thick-end of £200, nVidia released the 7900 for about the same money and a 50% speed boost…
I understand that a mid-range “x600″ should be slightly slower than an “x800″ of the previous series, but it’s extremely confusing to the uninitiated. Why did nVidia bother changing the names for the 9 series? They mostly seem to run the same chipsets as the 8 series, admittedly tweaked, and/or they’re running two of the chips in X2 format, but then this happened with the 7800 vs. 7900 previously? Maybe nVidia were impatient to get to “10″ for their new range of cards? Perhaps it was because the 8600GT was a bit of a disaster, and they wanted to distance the 9600GT from it?
/rant
07/07/2008 at 11:53 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
07/07/2008 at 11:53 Robin says:
Core 2 Duo E6750
Geforce 8800GTS
2GB RAM
Windows 2000 (hardcore)
IBM Model M keyboard and Logitech MX510 mouse.
I also have a (non-360) joypad.
07/07/2008 at 11:55 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)
4x1GB 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. :(
07/07/2008 at 11:59 itsallcrap says:
Okay, well if you’re really going to read all this….
Most of my gaming happens on my laptop:
AMD 64 Turion TL-56 (dual core)
2GB RAM
Radeon HD2600
But I also have my old girlfriend-proof Windows 2000 desktop that I play th odd game of CS on:
Athlon XP 2400
512MB RAM
Geforce 6 series
I have two USB Gamepads – a half-broken Logitech one and an XBox 360 one.
07/07/2008 at 12:03 terry says:
I own a generic 2.10 ghz dual core athlon thing, with an ageing 6800 gfx card. And an Amiga.
07/07/2008 at 12:04 Jay says:
My old rig, which is still at the time of writing, the most powerful desktop in the house, is a 1Ghz AMD Athlon with 768MBs of RAM (forgotten which type), as well as a GFX 5900XT. Could run CSS at 20FPS maximum at the minimum settings -_-
New rig is an Acer Aspire 4920G which I recently bought in China. Intel Core2 Duo 2.4Ghz, ATi Radeon 2400XT and 2GBs DDR2 RAM. Can run TF2 on high settings at 30FPS
07/07/2008 at 12:05 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.
07/07/2008 at 12:05 H says:
It’s a 2.6 Dual Core machine from Overclockers, running XP Pro (sp3). It’s got a Geforce 9600 GT, 2 gig of RAM, and er, you know, stuff. I’m sorry, that’s not very helpful.
07/07/2008 at 12:08 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.
07/07/2008 at 12:13 Ben Abraham says:
Destktop PC for most stuff:
3.0Ghz Core 2 Duo
2GB Ram
and a big gigantic FAIL for Graphics – a nVidia 7100GS
Also own a 2.7ghz Pentium laptop with Intel integrated graphics. Don’t own a gamepad. Windows XP on both.
07/07/2008 at 12:18 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.
07/07/2008 at 12:18 monchberter says:
Only a hand crafted desktop for me;
Quad Core Q6600 2.4ghz (not overclocked)
2GB RAM (Cheapy stuff)
500GB Seagate Barracuda HDD
Asus GeForce 8800GT 512MB
Asus P5KC mobo
Creative Audigy 4 soundcard (old!)
7.1 Creative speakers
1440×900 cheapy monitor
Windows XP Home (SP3)
Microsoft Sidewinder Mouse
Lovely 900 series Antec case
I used to have a 360 pad for gaming, but i’m a dedicated FPS’er so it was surplus to requirements.
07/07/2008 at 12:18 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)
07/07/2008 at 12:26 Crispy says:
This is starting to look like market research for your embedded advertisers, Jim. Care to explain your purposes for harvesting this information on your readership?
Desktop:
Athlon 64 3800 Venice (2.4 GHz)
3GB Corsair paired platinum RAM (2 x 1GB, 2 x 512MB)
Radeon x1900 XT (Sapphire)
Creative Audigy 1.0 soundcard
A Plug&Play monitor
Only upgrades I’m looking at for the time being are a flatscreen monitor and a dual core CPU.
No gamepads because they’re only worth it for fighting games and racers, and I don’t really play that sort of game.
Edit: The only game I’d consider upgrading the GFX for is Clear Sky.
07/07/2008 at 12:27 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 :)
07/07/2008 at 12:30 icabod says:
Athlon 64 2000 or so.
Geforce 6600GT (128Mb)
2Gb RAM
Windows 2000
No Gamepad
I’m with MaxNormal regarding the annoyance of developers not providing support for Win2k these days. I realise MS don’t really support it either, but it’s still a top OS methinks.
Oh, and I have several ZX Spectrums for playing Rex on.
07/07/2008 at 12:30 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).
07/07/2008 at 12:31 Mattress says:
My desktop PC is powered by a wheezing Athlon64 3500+, with a deflated Radeon 9700 128mb graphics card and 1gig of RAM, which it’s choking on. The beast is so old, I built it back in winter 04 in time for Half Life2, I thought it was “the shit” back then. Luckily I also use a prehistoric CRT so I keep the resolution of most games around 1024×768 without ghosting and blur issues that arise with flat screens. It computes like a sloth though, since it’s being running the same iteration of windows for over two years… I’ve tried to reboot the fucker but Windows installer doesn’t even recognise the SATA hdd… sigh
I also use an even more ancient laptop. Ostensibly it I’m supposed to bring it to college, but it’s heavy and instead the machine clutters my bedroom desk. However it’s fine for browsing and even playing older games that aren’t retro yet, like Planescape, Quake2, Simcity2000 etc.
I’d upgrade my main rig (by that I mean buy a new one), but I dunno… I don’t exactly have a grand floating around and the xbox360 provides all the necessary shinyness I need.
07/07/2008 at 12:32 alco75 says:
self-built
Core 2 Duo
2 GB
8800 GTS
no laptops
no gamepads
07/07/2008 at 12:36 Matt N says:
C2D E4300 (OC @ 3.06ghz)
4GB DDR2 800mhz
640mb 8800GTS
2 – 250GB HDDs
Vista Home Premium X64
07/07/2008 at 12:37 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).
07/07/2008 at 12:38 Paul Moloney says:
My lil’ beauty:
Sonata II case
Asus PK5 Deluxe with WiFi
Intel Q6600 CPU with stock cooler
2GB Kingston HyperX memory
Point of View 320MB 8800 GTS PCI-E
Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer
Cambridge Soundworks 4 speakers
500GB Western Digital SATA2 drive
1TB Samsung drive
Samsung SATA DVD±RW burner, SH-S203B
MS Natural Multimedia Keyboard
Logitech MX518 mouse
Razer eXactMat
XBox 360 Wireless gamepad
07/07/2008 at 12:42 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.
07/07/2008 at 12:44 RLacey says:
I’m a laptop gamer (mostly because I’m also a student, but hey, I also like laptops). Though I hate the lack of upgradable graphics cards, because it means that I’m going to have to completely replace this thing rather than upgrading it a bit.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 (2Ghz)
2GB DDR RAM
nVidia Geforce Go 7900 GTX 256MB
Internal (2.5″) SATA HD – 100Gb, 5400rpm
External (3.5″) SATA HD – 500Gb, 7200rpm (but USB) – this is where my games go.
Built-in monitor, 17″, 1680×1050
Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit)
Wired XBox 360 gamepad
Personally, I can’t see why anyone wouldn’t own a gamepad by now, since they’re hardly expensive (and, with the exception of the rubbish D-pad, the XBox controller is actually good). My pad gets most of its use in platform games and whatnot.
07/07/2008 at 12:50 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
07/07/2008 at 12:52 FuKuy says:
My PC:
intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Gygabyte P35-DQ6
4x 1024 MB OCZ XTC Platinum DDr2-800
XFX GeForce 8800GTX 768Mb
Western Digital MyBook external FireWare 250Gb
Western Digital SATA2 16Mb buffer 7200rpm 320Gb
Western Digital SATA2 16Mb buffer 7200rpm 500Gb
Lian-Li B20 Black
Seasonic 650W
DVD-RW LG SATA
Logitech Desktop Cordless DiNovo láser
Razer Deathadder Mouse
XBOX 360 wireless controller
Logitech Cordless Rumblepad 2
Creative Inspire 5.1 GD580
Windows Vista Home Premium x64 + SP1
Monitor Dell 20″ 2005FPw
Now I’m playing:
Team Fortress 2
Call of Duty 4
Assassin’s Creed
Mass Effect
Titan Quest
Sin Episodes Emergence
BioShock
The Witcher
GRiD
Gears of War
Command & Conquer 3
07/07/2008 at 12:52 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.
07/07/2008 at 12:54 Optimaximal says:
I forgot to add I have a Xbox 360 pad!
07/07/2008 at 12:54 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)
07/07/2008 at 12:58 Simon says:
I’ve got a fantastic rig that I’m proud of because I paid for it all myself. It’s got a Core 2 Quad 2.6ghz, 8800GTS 512 Factory Overclocked, and 2GB Random Access Memoires. I’m running Vista. Crysis, TF2 and Oblivion are all as nature intended. I’ve got a Microsoft Sidewinder gamepad, an antique of a controller from around 1997, which I only use to play NES emulations
07/07/2008 at 13:07 dartt says:
Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4ghz)
2gb DDR2 667MHZ
2 x 300gb 7200rpm drives
Nvidia 8800GTX
07/07/2008 at 13:10 Masterdog says:
I’m using a 2.4 core 2 duo, 4gb of RAM and a 8800GTX (768mb). Despite the amount of Trackmania I play, I only use keyboard – don’t have any other controllers (except the mouse, I spose) because I just can’t seem to get used to em. 2 500gb HD’s and an external 500gb one as well because I thought one of the internals was failing (tho it seems to be okay now).
I’ve got my old PC upstairs but it doesn’t like gaming very much any more.
07/07/2008 at 13:10 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
07/07/2008 at 13:13 Rob Merritt says:
If this reads like its ripped fron newegg, its because it has. Anyways here is my computer:
- Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz LGA 775 Dual-Core Processor
- Antec Sonata Plus 550 Black/ Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 550W Power Supply
- EVGA 512-P3-N841-A3 GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
- 4x Kingston 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory Model KVR800D2N5/1G
- 2x Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD7500AAKS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
- GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard
- ASUS 20X DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model DRW-2014L1T
- Vista Ultimate
oh and a wired 360 gamepad.
07/07/2008 at 13:13 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.
07/07/2008 at 13:16 Jamie says:
I’m running Vista with;
An 8200 Core2 Duo
a 8800gt
2gb ram
Now have to sell my kidneys to afford the months rent.
07/07/2008 at 13:18 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
07/07/2008 at 13:19 Caiman says:
Core2Duo E6600
2Gb DDR2
1 x 400 Gb internal, 1 x 300 Gb internal, 1 x 500 Gb USB2, 1 x 1Tb Firewire (all 7200 rpm) (it’s for video editing)
1Gb 7950 GX2
XP SP2
Audigy 2 ZS
Dual monitor setup (Samsung 22″, HP Pavilion 19″)
Um, 1 gamepad somewhere gathering dust, 1 joystick (a game port stick that I can’t plug in anymore).
07/07/2008 at 13:19 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.
07/07/2008 at 13:31 Yann Best says:
I have two PC’s my old laptop, and my New! desktop, designed with a budget and silence in mind. It means I can finally play Medieval II and Company of Heroes though, so it’s all good.
Laptop – Acer Aspire 3022WLMi
Sempron 2800+
Mobility Radeon X600
1280Mb RAM (I forget the speed)
50Gb HDD
XP Home
Desktop – Homebuilt
Athlon 64 2.4GHz
Radeon 3200 HD (integrated)
2Gb DDR2 800MHz
500Gb HDD
XP Professional
My trusty old Xbox pads and arcade stick I interface with the PC’s when I need to; at some point I may get a 360 wireless interface for my lovely 360 pads, but not yet.
07/07/2008 at 13:31 Dot says:
A Q6600
8800GT 512
4GB DDR2
Vista 32
3 HDDs of varying capacities.
Oh and a 360 gamepad.
07/07/2008 at 13:33 Maximum Fish says:
EVGA nforce 750i motherboard (it’s honestly called “For the Win”, which is across the street from cool, and next door to lame.)
9800 GTX (also EVGA, though more coincidental than brand loyalty)
Intel Wolfdale dual-core e8400 (or “core duo” or whatever)
2 gigs Kingston hyperX memory (1066 i think…)
BFG 550 watt PSU
I don’t own a gamepad, mainly because a superior control scheme is one of the primary reasons i deal with drivers, thermal paste, securom and pushing the power on button and hearing “system failed memory test”.
07/07/2008 at 13:40 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.
07/07/2008 at 13:40 Mr Peckerston says:
Pentium D 945 (hell yeah)
9600gt 512MB
2GB RAM
160GB HDD (hell yeah again)
XP Pro
big ol’ 22″ 1600×1200 CRT
and loads of gamepads/sticks. No 360 pad, though.
07/07/2008 at 13:43 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.
07/07/2008 at 13:53 Ravenger says:
Q6600 @ Stock
8800GTS 512 G92, slightly overclocked.
2GB RAM.
350gb hard disk
Dual Layer DVD burner
SB X-Fi
XP Home.
20″ Widescreen Samsung LCD Monitor/TV
Medusa 5.1 Headphones.
I have a USB gamepad which is a dualshock look-alike, plus a PS2 pad USB adaptor. Both get used rarely, and then mainly for emulated games. I also have a Cyborg USB flight stick which gets used for flying planes and choppers in BF2.
I’ve also got two other PCs, and Athlon 64 3500 , 7800GT and an Athlon 2400 6800GT system which are used by my son and daughter. Each time I upgrade my PC I pass my old PC onto my son, and his old PC onto my daughter. That way I always have at least another PC capable of running decent games, in case my main one breaks.
07/07/2008 at 13:54 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
07/07/2008 at 13:59 Steve says:
Main box for erm… work is:
Tyan Thunder K8WE (S2895) board BIOS Rev v.1.05D BETA .
2 x AMD Opteron 285′s
8GB DDR ECC
1.6 TB raid Mirror using Maxtor Maxline 3 drives.
2 x 8800 GT’s
SB Audigy ZS Platinum Pro
1 x 24″ Dell Widescreen & 2 x 20″ NEC Secondarys.
Main OS’s not including virtual machines are:
XP x64,
Vista Ultimate x64
and Server 2008 x64.
… and no, no gamepad.
07/07/2008 at 14:00 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.
07/07/2008 at 14:01 Metta says:
My wife and I use Apple desktops and laptops. We own a couple of Nintendo DS units, a PSP, a Wii, and an Xbox 360. I play the odd Windows game on the Bootcamp partition of my MacBook Pro, but just something out of our archives. We haven’t purchased a Windows game in almost five years.
07/07/2008 at 14:11 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.
07/07/2008 at 14:12 Birdoman says:
Custom build:
MB: P5N32-E SLI PLUS Motherboard
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3GHz
RAM: 4 x 1GB Patriot 6400 RAM
GPU” BFG GeForce 320MB 8800GTS
HD: 500GB Seagate Barracuda SATA2 16MB
Aud: Soundblaster 2 (!)
Case: Antec P182
Screen: Samsung SyncMaster 940BW 19″ 1440×900
OS: Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition
No gamepad, just the old skool..
Planning on adding water cooling overclocking once i have some cash.
07/07/2008 at 14:16 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!!!!!!
07/07/2008 at 14:17 Cerbis Latran says:
Lordy me that’s a lot of comments. Anyway, more data for the poll! I own a self-constructed Windows XP PC with the following;
Athlon 64 X2 4800 processor
Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe motherboard
2GB of DDR2-800 RAM
AMD Radeon HD 3870 with 512MB RAM graphics card
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS soundcard
and some 600GB-odd of HDD space.
I’ve also got an Xbox 360 Gamepad which works beautifully with most new Windows titles with barely a moment of setting up the controls. Tip for those who want more out of their 360 gamepad on a Windows machine; Find the XBCD360 driver kit. Lets you rearrange the controls very extensively to work with older games, and full DirectInput compatibility. Yes, now you too can get vibration in Silent Hill 3 for PC!
07/07/2008 at 14:19 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.
07/07/2008 at 14:19 smurfonarocket says:
Antec Nine Hundred / OCZ StealthXStream 600W
E8400 / Asus P5Q
4GB DDR2-800 Corsair XMS2 Ram
2x500gb Seagate Drives
1x500gb WD Essential External HD – Mainly used for personal stuff, ranging from family pics to my MP3 library.
Gigabyte Radeon 4850
Dual Samsung 22″ 225UW Monitor
XP-Pro-32 / Vista Business SP1-32 Boot
MS Ergo KB / MX Revolution (Bought the MX5500)
Everything on it is stock, and not OCed, i mainly use it for work related activities more then anything, but it definately handles itself while gaming. Did the dual boot because because Labview, Comsol, Altium Products, Matlab and Maple all ran better in XP for awhile, now it’s fine. I chose to split up the MX5500 combo because iam comfortable / already had the ergonomic keyboard on my desktop. For the laptop i just leave the KB on the desk and travel with the mouse, and just have the peripherals pair when i turn bluetooth on. The MX Revolution works fine for all my gaming uses, haven’t noticed anything that would be really annoying, but i am not a serious gamer, i do it mainly for R&R when i want to hermit.
Lenovo X61T w/Dock
160GB 5400rpm Drive
C2D L7500
Corsair 4GB PC5400
Intergrated Intel x3100
Logitech MX5500 Keyboard / MS Wireless Mouse 9000
Vista Business SP1-32
I’ll carry around in my bag a 8GB USB drive and 160GB WD Passport. The passport mainly carries movies/media to keep me occupied while flying or waiting for a flight. The USB drive is for all the other random stuff.
I have two original Xbox controllers which were frankensteined to work on the computer, but they mainly collect dust
07/07/2008 at 14:19 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.
07/07/2008 at 14:22 Matthew says:
AMD Athlon X2 4200+ (the AM2 socket kind)
2GB of DDR400 Ram
nVidia GeForce 7900GT 512MB (the Golden Sample type with double RAM, dunno why)
MSI K8N Motherboard, I think
750Gb of HD space on three Hitachi Deskstars
Dell 2407FPW 24″ Widescreen Panel
X-Fi Fatal1ty soundcard
Creative T7700 7.1 speaker system
Logitech G11 Keyboard
Logitech MX500 optical mouse
Xbox 360 Wireless Pad
Windows XP SP3
2 internal DVD burners (1 Labelflash capable)
2 external DVD burners (1 Lightscribe capable)
1 floppy drive
Canon Pixma ip4500 inkjet printer
Saitek X52 flight stick and throttle
I reckon the processor, motherboard and graphics card will be due for an upgrade around summer of next year.
07/07/2008 at 14:26 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.
07/07/2008 at 14:27 MaW says:
Okay. My PC is the product of many years of incremental upgrades from what was originally a Pentium 75-based system with a whopping 8MB of RAM.
It’s now powered by an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
2GB RAM
XFX GeForce 8800GT PCI-E graphics card with an obscene amount of memory – 512MB I think – alpha dog edition (overclocked at the factory)
Sound Blaster X-Fi Fata1ity (not a cool name or a cool card in any way shape or form except that the Vista drivers kind of work)
2x200GB SATA hard drives
1 DVD-+RW burner (not dual layer)
1 CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive
And a gamepad, it’s a Saitek thing which is basically a DualShock 2 with only one shoulder button on each side.
Operating systems are Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit, and Foresight Linux 2 GNOME Edition x86-64
It’s hooked up to 5.1 speakers and a 22″ 1650×1050 16:10 monitor.
I also have a DVB-T (Freeview) card and a Line 6 Toneport UX-1, which was almost the laziest way to hook up a decent microphone to the computer with which to record my musical ventures. Not very useful for gaming, it must be said.
My laptop isn’t used for very much in the way of gaming. It’s a Dell Inspiron of a model number which escapes me, with a 2GHz Mobile Celeron processor, 1GB of RAM and a 60GB hard drive. Intel i915GM integrated graphics. It runs Foresight Linux 2 GNOME Edition i386, and most of the gaming time on it is spent playing little things from the GNOME Games package. Usually Gnometris. That game never gets old.
07/07/2008 at 14:31 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.
07/07/2008 at 14:35 Simes says:
Athlon X2 4400+
2GB RAM
1.5TB total disk
GeForce 8800GTX (massively overpowered for what I mainly play on this machine, but my framerate in WoW is *rock solid*)
XP Professional x64 edition (not the best choice I ever made)
If I need a gamepad for anything I have a wired 360 pad I use.
I also occasionally use my Macbook Pro for games.
07/07/2008 at 14:42 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
07/07/2008 at 14:44 Noc says:
Macbook. Integrated graphics card, one gig ram.
Any chance we’ll see the results of all this compiled at any stage?
07/07/2008 at 14:52 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.
07/07/2008 at 14:54 Gap Gen says:
@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.
Yeah, I only started using Macs recently when I started a PhD. And I agree that Apple fanboys are annoying, as are the PC vs Mac adverts. Also, their hardware is way overpriced in several areas. Their design is pretty good, though, even if the current generation of iMac is a horrible concept (i.e. all of the disadvantages of a laptop with none of the advantages).
07/07/2008 at 14:55 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
07/07/2008 at 14:57 Howard says:
Errmmm – Right:
Gaming Rig:
C2D E6600 @ 3.0Gig
4 gig DDR2
2x SATA 2 200G HDs in RAID 0
Nvidia GeForce8800 GTX OC
19″ Viewsonic CRT Monitor (CRT FTW!)
XBOX 360 Wireless pad
Logitech G25 Wheel
MS Sidewinder FF Joystick (still the best after all these years)
Running dual boot Vista 32/64 ULTIMATE
2nd Rig:
C2D E6300 @ 2.2 (I think)
2 gig DDR2
2x SATA 2 200G HDs in RAID 0
AMD HD2900XT
19″ Viewsonic CRT Monitor
Running Vista 32
Should I also be listing my File Server, my HTPC and my NAS? Probably best not too…
07/07/2008 at 14:58 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.
07/07/2008 at 15:01 Novotny says:
C2D 8400 at 3.81ghz, 2gig ram, 900gig HDD space, 8800 GT, old Audigy 2, LG 22 inch TN, Logitech Wingman cordless which has been utterly replaced by X-box controller (miles better). Also Cyborg Evo for Il2.
07/07/2008 at 15:03 theapologist says:
I have a quad core 6600, 8800 GTX, 2gb ram, x-fi games, 2xsata 180Gb in Raid0, vista, and an xbox controller
07/07/2008 at 15:06 Deuteronomy says:
Low noise rig with decent performance:
Enermax Liberty 500W PSU
Cooler Master Centurion Case
E4500@3.0Ghz
Noctua NH-U12P CPU cooling
2 Gb DDR2 800 Mhz RAM
WD 250 Gb 7200 RPM drive
BFG 8800GT OC
Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 rev 2 passive GPU cooling
XP Media Center
Creative Audigy 2
19″ Acer Widescreen
Logitech Rumblepad 2
Logitech MX518 mouse
07/07/2008 at 15:19 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: 0x10de
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
07/07/2008 at 15:21 baf says:
2.4 GHZ Pentium 4, 1 GB RAM
For the gamepad, I have an adaptor for a PS2 controller.
I also have a Macbook Pro, but I don’t play games on it.
07/07/2008 at 15:26 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.
07/07/2008 at 15:29 FreezerBag says:
I was using a Dell laptop as my main gaming machine:
Intel Core 2 Duo T7400
2GB RAM
200GB 7200rpm SATA Disk
NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX Go 512MB
Vista Ultimate
No gamepads.
Unfortunately the GPU has gone into meltdown and now I’m using some crappy HP laptop I stole from work that can barely run Diablo 2.
07/07/2008 at 15:31 Unspeakable Horror says:
Antec P180
Core 2 Duo 6700 (3.5ghz)
Nvidia 8800GTX
2x500GB WD
1x150GB WD
1x150GB Something.
22″ LCD WS Viewsonic
Creative X-Fi.
1 gamepad.
07/07/2008 at 15:32 Goose says:
Core2Duo E8400 CPU
2GB DDR2-800 RAM
3 250GB Seagate 7200.10 HD’s in a RAID-5 array
eVGA nForce 750i Motherboard
GeForce 6800GT video card
Running Windows XP
And a Thrustmaster gamepad
Obviously, the video card is the weak link. I’m looking at getting an 8800GT in the near future.
07/07/2008 at 15:34 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
07/07/2008 at 15:41 majorbromly says:
Well this is kind of embarrasing :)
Running a AMD 2.1 GHZ single core (2800?), 1 GB of ram, and AGP (!) 7600 GS
Sadface:( Oh yeah, no gamepads. That’s what the 360 is for.
07/07/2008 at 15:46 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
07/07/2008 at 15:47 LQB says:
CPU : Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz (Not OC’d)
GPU : eVGA 8800GT (Not OC’d)
MOBO : Gigabyte N650SLI-DS4
RAM : Corsair 2x 1GB DDR2667 Dual Channel
HDD : Western Digital 500GB SATA 3.0
OS : Windows XP SP3
edit: Custom built by me too, I refuse to spend more than I actually have too.
07/07/2008 at 15:49 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 ^^
07/07/2008 at 15:49 Halibut Barn says:
I built mine a bit over a year ago, and it’s still holding up pretty well: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 2 gigs RAM, and an 8800 GTS (640MB version). I also have a current-gen MacBook Pro, though I only do gaming on it while traveling.
I have a wired 360 controller hooked up, but I use the XBCD drivers with it, since split trigger axes are a bit more useful for driving games. I also have a Logitech DFP wheel, though I don’t use it as much as I really should, since it’s such a pain to set up and take down unless it’s going to be a long session.
07/07/2008 at 15:53 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
07/07/2008 at 15:57 Ginger Yellow says:
Custom rig with an Asus P5N32E mobo, E6850 CPU, 8800GTX graphics card, 2GB DDR2 OCZ RAM, a 25″ Viewsonic monitor, Logitech 5.1 speakers.
Runs very fast, but Vista hates the nForce chipset. The GPU gets very hot during summer as well, so I’m thinking about some sort of additional cooling. It’s really annoying, as the rest of the system is super-cool and overclocks with ease.
I have a 360 joypad and wireless dongle, but I rarely use it. Instead I splashed out on a Logitech G15 keyboard.
07/07/2008 at 15:59 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 (2x1GB) 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.
07/07/2008 at 16:02 Deuteronomy says:
I recently bought a rumblepad mainly for driving games. Yeah a wheel would be better but I’m getting pretty good at GTR 2, Xpand Rally and Live for Speed with the thing. My girlfriend said she would leave me if I bought and installed a wheel.
07/07/2008 at 16:04 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.
07/07/2008 at 16:15 Klaus says:
Until this year my glorious computer was a eMachine.
733MHZ
300 or so ram
32mb intel integrated graphics chipset
20 GB harddrive
with windows xp
I was able to kick ass at Peggle and BookWorm Adventures. At least BG2 played pretty well.
Now I have
2.8 GHZ Intel Pentium D
250 GB SATA HDD
ATI Radeon HD 2400 (I know right)
1 gig of ram
with Vista Home Premium
and some cheap gamepad my brother bought.
It could be better, but it’s such a vast improvement over the old one, I don’t even care. I can at least play Kotor now.
07/07/2008 at 16:16 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.
07/07/2008 at 16:20 Yhancik says:
AMD Sempron 2600+
1.5GB RAM
Radeon 9550+ 256MB
17″ CRT monitor
USB Joypad
Joystick (ya, rly)
Windows XP
and you know, I’m quite happy with it :)
07/07/2008 at 16:22 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
07/07/2008 at 16:28 SeriousKriss says:
Here’s my desktop:
Processor: Intel Core 2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
Memory: 2048MB RAM
Hard Drive: 74 GB Raptor + 750 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Monitor: SyncMaster 931BW (wide 19″)
Sound Card: SB X-Fi Audio
Mouse: Razer Copperhead
Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP3
I also have an old Alienware laptop with the mobile equivalent of a GeForce 6800 that I still occasionally use for LANs.
I own a PS2 pad w/ usb adapter, a Logitech Cordless Rumblepad 2 and a wireless 360 pad w/ blutooth adapter.
07/07/2008 at 16:28 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.
07/07/2008 at 16:38 The Dude says:
I have the out of the box HP Elite, which runs games surprisingly well.
4GB of RAM
Intel Quad Core (Don’t know the exact name)
8400 GS
And I own a dualshock-ish game pad that I got so I could play MGS2 Substance.
07/07/2008 at 16:44 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.
07/07/2008 at 16:47 ovvls says:
No real person could even read this, let alone make something useful of it. I therefore assume it’s to wave in the face of marketing folks.
My specs are:
Computer That Can Play Anything That’s Out Right Now On At Least Medium Settings (Windows XP/linux).
Ancient Laptop That Can Barely Play Quake 2 (Windows 2000/linux).
Ancient Ultraportable Laptop That Can Play Quake 2 Slightly Better But Has A Tiny Screen (Windows XP).
And I have:
A Couple Of Those USB-Console Adaptors With Which I Can Plug In Various Gamepads (But Not Xbox/360), My Guitar Hero Guitar Or My Dance Mats.
A Force Feedback Flightstick Which I Haven’t Used In Years But I Keep In Eternal Hope Of TIE Fighter 2.
07/07/2008 at 16:55 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
07/07/2008 at 17:08 TychoCelchuuu says:
Intel E6700, ASUS P5B, 1GB DDR2, 8800GTS 640MB, 500GB HD, SB X-Fi Gamer, Windows XP Pro, MX510, $7 Logitech keyboard, Sennheiser PC161 headphones. No gamepad, but I do have a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Joystick which I love like the child I’d never let past the fetus stage and therefore never have.
07/07/2008 at 17:20 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
07/07/2008 at 17:41 Mathonar says:
Asus P5DH Deluxe, Core 2 Duo E6600, 4GB Ram, Vista x64 & XP, 600gb drive space, 2×3870, SB X-FI Fatality in an Antec P180 with a 550w PSU, 22″ Samsung TFT, 360 Gamepad, Medusa 5.1 headphones + Creative 6.1 speakers
Kinda hoping that’ll get me through to the 2nd half of 2009 before i feel i really have to buy a new PC…
07/07/2008 at 17:46 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.
07/07/2008 at 17:46 johnny_cuts says:
e8400 @3.6Ghz
4Gb Crucial Ballistix 8500 @ 5 5 5 15
2 x 8800 GTS 640Mb Sli @ stock
Vista 64
07/07/2008 at 17:46 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?
07/07/2008 at 17:51 Dolphan says:
New Laptop with a Core 2 Duo T5670 @1.8 GHz, Geforce 8600M (for cheap cos Dell couldn’t find an 8400 – lucky me), 2 gigs of RAM, 17″ screen. Runs the Crysis demo fine with medium settings, no anti-aliasing at 1280×1024, which would be great if I had any desire to play Crysis.
07/07/2008 at 17:59 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.
07/07/2008 at 18:02 mist says:
p4 2.8ghz ht
1 gb dual channel ram
7600 gs (passively cooled.. yeah..)
It handles everything that I throw at it (which = modern Valve games and lots of old stuff bought from Steam)
No gamepad.
07/07/2008 at 18:14 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?
07/07/2008 at 18:24 CryingMinotaur says:
Yay! It’s show off your hardware/nerd cred day..
So lets get to it, shall we?
My main computer is a MacBook Pro 3rd Gen (Summer 2007)
Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz w/ 2GB RAM
GeForce 8600M GT 128 MB
It’s hooked up to a 19″ Samsung SyncMaster CRT.
I have found this to be more than adequate for my gaming needs, for example Bioshock runs like a charm on native 1440 x 900 resolution with everything turned to max.
I find it Interesting that I am already the 15th person to mention that they own a MacBook/Pro (and this on a PC gaming website) – the switch to Intel is certainly proving itself as a major boon to Apple and their hardware sales.
(And now for the nerd cred part: This machine is set up to triple boot Mac OS X, Win XP and Ubuntu Studio, with NTFS-3G and FUSE tools installed on all OSes to enable read/write access to HFS , NTFS and ext3 partitions, which has worked pretty well so far. So that was that.)
And oh, no gamepad (although I have contemplated buying one on many an occasion).
07/07/2008 at 18:28 Dave says:
Core 2 Duo E6300
recently upgraded to:
4GB Ram
512MB 8800GT
21.6″ widescreen LCD
07/07/2008 at 18:31 Valrus says:
I always get my bro’s hand me downs, I think I’ve only bought a power supply and some RAM in several years….
Athlon 2.1 GHZ CPU
NVidia GeForce 7600
2 GB of RAM
NVidia nForce motherboard
Windows XP SP2
I own 3 game pads, a generic playstation styled one, a very old Microsoft Freestyle Pro and I’ve got an adapter to hook up a Gamecube controller, although I think I may have lost the drivers for it and can’t use it anymore, not that I do.
07/07/2008 at 18:32 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.
07/07/2008 at 18:35 Lake says:
Desktop:
Core 2 Quad Q6600
4 GB RAM
Vista Home Premium 64 bit
VisionTek Radeon HD 4870
22″ Samsung moniitor
Logitech G15 keyboard
Logitech G5 mouse
Logitech Z-5500 5.1 speakers
07/07/2008 at 18:47 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.
07/07/2008 at 18:49 dbdkmezz says:
Core 2 Quad Q6600
Nvidia 8800 GTS 640MB
2 GB Ram
19″ monitor
Logitech Z-5500 5.1 speakers
Kubuntu 32bit – Primary OS, used for almost half my gaming and everything else
XP 32bit – for those pesky games that don’t play well with wine or crossover
and I’m soon to get Vista 32bit, just to play the new STALKER :)
07/07/2008 at 18:55 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)
07/07/2008 at 19:00 El Stevo says:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
1.25 GB of RAM
Radeon X1600 Pro (not a particularly good card, should have done the research!)
I own a wired XBox 360 controller, one of those wireless things that lets you use a wireless XBox 360 controller on your PC, a couple of adapters through which I use Saturn and N64 controllers (used to use PS2 controllers too until I got the 360 pad), and I recently bought a Saitek Cyborg Evo joystick for X-wing vs Tie Fighter.
07/07/2008 at 19:01 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.
07/07/2008 at 19:07 Dean says:
Athlon 6000+
2 Geforce 8800 GT’s (only 256MB each) in SLI
2 GB RAM
Audigy 2 ZS sound
Still running XP.
But shouldn’t you have provided us some sort of form so you can put this in a database then give us some sort of percentages of RPS readers who have which hardware?
07/07/2008 at 19:14 thunder_monkey says:
AMD Dual Core 4800+
2GB
Nvidia 9600 something or other [512MB]
No game pads.
07/07/2008 at 19:22 Pidesco says:
ASUS P5L-VM 1394
Pentium 4 631 3.0 GHz
2 GB Kingston DDRII667 RAM
XFX Geforce 7600GT
Onboard Audio
Samsung 80GB 7200RPM
Samsung 17″ 795MB
Gamepad XFX XGear Dual Reflex
As you can see, I have a sweet ass gamepad. I also have a PS1 style gamepad that I never use.
Also, it runs every game maxed except for Crysis. Not bad for a two year old machine.
07/07/2008 at 19:26 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.
07/07/2008 at 19:36 Gravious says:
q6600 @ 3.2ghz
4gb DDR2
8800gtx
24″ BenQ
Runs the ZX Spectrum emulator just fine with a frameskip of 6
07/07/2008 at 19:39 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.
07/07/2008 at 19:45 Masked Dave says:
My gaming PC is:
AMD X2 4800+
2GB RAM
2x GeForce 7900 GT in SLI (I think… cards like those anyway)
Creative Fatal1ty X-Fi
Other gubbins
My general use computer is a black MacBook though. I keep meaning to get Windows on here so I can run all these cool indie games I keep reading about on here, but I never get around to it.
(I’ve also got a X360, PS2, Wii and DS as well as Sony Viao Blu-Ray Media Centre under my TV)
07/07/2008 at 19:45 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.
07/07/2008 at 19:52 UncleLou says:
C2D 6750, 2 GB RAM, 8800 GTS (the older 640 MB version), running Vista 32. Using a 22” widescreen monitor, and a Logitech G9 mouse.
And one of them newfangled input devices called “Xbox 360 – Controller for Windows”.
It cost a million pounds, and needed upgrading two weeks before I bought it.
07/07/2008 at 19:58 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!
07/07/2008 at 20:04 zima says:
AthlonXP 1700+ (1,47 GHz)
Radeon 8500 64MB/Matrox G400 16MB (if I’m toying with fitting passive cooling on Radeon, which I’m doing ATM)
768MB ram
ASRock SiS 746fx mobo (worth mentioning…uber non-problematic)
Aureal Vortex SQ2500 (still great in old games with A3D support…but it probably goes on retirement with next upgrade – no drivers for anything above XP/2k3)
Matrox G450 PCI 16MB – for second monitor (too bad bad hardly any games support it, I’d especially like to have Diablo2 with map on second monitor; oh well, perhaps D3)
Floppy drive! :P (though disconnected for teh past 3 years)
And three joypads – generic one (in style of old digital Playstation controller) for gameport, Dual Shock 1 and Negcon (via PSX->USB adapter)
07/07/2008 at 20:28 DragonSix says:
Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3ghz
Geforce 8800 GT 512mo
2go DDR2 ram
Three joypads : 3 DualShock Adaptators.
07/07/2008 at 20:32 Calabi says:
Athlon Dual Core 4200
Ati 1950 pro 512mb
2 GB Ram
X-fi Gamer
360 Gamepad
I’ve also got a joystick which I dont use anymore as the Flight sim fad faded. Two monitors, 5.1 surround and a USB torch.
07/07/2008 at 21:14 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’
07/07/2008 at 21:18 Erlam says:
AMD Athlon 3700+
2 Gigs RAM
A8R-MVP Deluxe MBB (I think)
Radeon 1900XT 512MB
I have some joystick I dont remember the make of for TIE Fighter, and I do not use a gamepad of any type.
07/07/2008 at 21:20 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
07/07/2008 at 21:21 Victor Wenty says:
It’s a beige Commodore, with brown keys. I can’t remember what it’s called though as the glue holding the labels on perished ages ago…
07/07/2008 at 21:31 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
07/07/2008 at 21:40 Michael says:
MAIN COMPUTER:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850
Motherboard: EVGA 680 SLI T1
RAM: OCZ DDR2 PC2-9200 Reaper HPC Edition – 2Gb
Video Card 1: XFX Geforce 8800 GTX
Video Card 2: XFX Geforce 8800 GTX
Speakers: Creative Gigaworks 750 7.1
Hard Drive 1: Western Digital Raptor 150Gb SATA 10,000 RPM (RAID-1)
Hard Drive 2: Western Digital Raptor 150Gb SATA 10,000 RPM (RAID-1)
DVD-RW: ASUS DVD-RW SATA, Dual Layer, LightScribe
Power Supply: Thermaltake ToughPower 850W Modular w/APFC EPS
Keyboard: Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
Mouse: Logitech Mx500
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 226BW 22″ 1680×1050
OS: Windows XP Professional
SECONDARY COMPUTER:
CPU: Intel Pentium4 3.4GHz (800MHz FSB)
Motherboard: Asus P4c800-E Deluxe
RAM: Micron 1Gb PC4000 (DDR500)
Video Card: ATI Radeon x850 XT 256Mb AGP
Sound Card: Creative Audigy2 ZS Platinum
Hard Drives: IBM and Western Digital, both 120Gb SATA150 (both in RAID-1)
DVD-RW: Plextor 8x PX-708A DVD±R/RW/CD-RW
Floppy/Flash: Mitsumi 1.44 FDD with a 7 flash card reader (USB 2.0)
Power Supply: Antec True Control 550 Watt power supply with a front panel
Monitor: SONY 19″ SDM-HS94P
OS: Windows Xp Professional
GENERAL PURPOSE LAPTOP:
Make/Model: Dell Latitude D630
OS: Windows Vista Business
BEDSIDE READING LAPTOP:
Make/Model: IBM ThinkPad T30
OS: Windows XP Professional
07/07/2008 at 22:01 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
07/07/2008 at 22:09 Lh'owon says:
Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00 GHz
Corsair TX750, 750W ATX PSU
G.Skill 2x2GB
XFX GeForce GTX 280
Western Digital Caviar 640GB
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, for x64 (64-bit)
No controller
07/07/2008 at 22:31 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.
07/07/2008 at 22:44 SuperNashwan says:
Q6600, 2GB, Geforce 8600 GT, use a PS2 pad adaptor with a dual shock if needed. My last pc is now on media duties hooked up to the tv.
07/07/2008 at 22:44 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.
07/07/2008 at 22:45 GeorgeR says:
Right now I have a desktop (that’s old and in storage) that’s a Pent 4 at.. jeez, I can’t even remember what the Ghz is on it. 1.5gigs of ram, an ATI with 256 ram, I can’t remember what else. I have a USB gamepad for it that’s also in storage. I’ve got a nice little logitech 3.1 surround system for it and a wireless logitech mouse.
I also have my laptop here that’s a core 2 duo 2ghz, only 1 gig of ram (need to fix that) and an ATI FireGL V5250.
On both machines I run XP Pro.
07/07/2008 at 22:51 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.
07/07/2008 at 22:56 Anaardvark says:
Built my PC in Nov 07. It was a nice birthday present for myself :)
Asus Striker Extreme
Watercooled Q6600 2.4ghz Quadcore (OC’ed @ 3.0ghz)
4gb Corsair XMS-2 Ram
Creative X-Fi Plantinum Fatal1ty Edition
2x GeForce 8800 GT’s
2x 24″ Dell Ultrasharp widescreen monitors
About 2tb (across about 4 hd’s) of hard drive space.
Vista Ulitmate (well it’s currently a triple boot system with XP, and Linux on there too but only really for trying things out on)
1 Wired Xbox 360 Gamepad for Windows
1 Wireless Xbox 360 Wireless Reciever for Windows 2 wireless Xbox 360 pads (that are used for the Xbox and the pc when needed)
I’ll be looking to upgrade to a GeForce GTX 280 when I get my uni loan through in September too :D
Oh and an old Acer Aspire 5024 (1.8 Turon, Radeon X700 Mobile) but going to get myself a tasty 2.4 dual core Dell XPS for the start of uni too!
07/07/2008 at 23:00 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.
07/07/2008 at 23:40 JohnCatsack says:
I like to play Crysis cranked up to full settings on my Amiga 2000.
CPU: Motorola 68000 (7.16 MHz NTSC, 7.09 MHz PAL)
Memory:
* 256 KB ROM for Kickstart code.
* 512 KB (Max) / (1 MB Max) of Chip RAM.
Storage:
* 3.5″ DD Floppy drive, capacity 880 KB
Video (Common resolutions):
* 320×200/256 with 32 colors, 64 colors in Halfbrite or 4096 in HAM-6
* 640×400/512i with 16 colors
07/07/2008 at 23:43 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.
08/07/2008 at 00:32 sinister agent says:
3GHz Pentium 4
1 GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 5600 (I think) video card with 128MB.
40GB HD (the weak point, I know, but having just formatted, I find that about 15GB was just games I never played anyway)
It did have a DVD rewriter but it’s knackered, so I’m relegated to a regular DVD drive.
Windows XP Home.
All second hand (except XP, obv), total cost of £125. My spare computer has:
750MHz (I think, or possibly less)
196MB RAM
12GB Hard drive
DVD DriveA crappy old CD drive. Bugger.Onboard video (some generic intel thing – surprisingly potent).
Windows 98, mostly for the sake of older games.
That lot cost me £50 about two years ago. I used to use it to test DVDs from work when they were reported faulty, and most of the time they were fine. Free films and exposure of public dishonesty. Happy days.
I am content with this lot – it’ll run Mount & Blade, Grid Wars 2 and Civ 4, which are enough to keep anyone happy for ages. I doubt it’ll cope with Starcraft 2 or Beyond Good and Evil 2, but I can wait a few years. I have a 360 gamepad, though rarely use it.
08/07/2008 at 01:03 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.
08/07/2008 at 01:24 evulhotdog says:
I do my gaming on a:
AMD athlon x2 6000+ Black edition
2 8800 GT’s SLI’ed
1 40g and 1 160g HD
2g of ram
A8N SLI Premium mobo
2 22″ widescreen monitors
I spent a few bucks on it, but I use it all the time so im not complaining, btw xbox 360 looks sexy in HD on these monitors.
08/07/2008 at 01:33 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)
08/07/2008 at 02:31 Mono says:
I’m one of those assholes with an Nvidia GTX 280.
Also running Intel C2D E6850, 4GB RAM, a 300GB Velociraptor boot drive, a 1TB Hitachi storage drive, dual displays: a Dell 24″ widescreen and a Dell 27″ widescreen.
08/07/2008 at 02:35 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.
08/07/2008 at 02:41 malkav11 says:
Main PC: 17″ offbrand CRT monitor (going 8 years and counting. S’all I need.). Athlon 64 3200+ dual-core CPU. 2 gigabytes of Corsair-brand DDR2 800 RAM. SLI-linked pair of 7600GTs (which have taken everything I’ve thrown at them, no trouble.). Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy 4. Antec Truepower II 500W power supply. Two Seagate SATA II hard drives, one 300G, one 400G. A Lite-on brand dual-layer DVD burner. Niko surround-sound headphones. Some cheap little microphone. Buffalo wireless router. 3.0M/768K DSL (recent). No dedicated gaming peripherals whatsoever, although I do have an Xbox 360, and will use a wired controller for that if I need one on my PC.
Ancient PC: A Pentium 100 with 16MB of RAM, a 500ish meg hard drive, 14 inch monitor, and DOS 6. Rarely used, but can come in handy for DOS games that I can’t/don’t want to run via DOSBox. (And it used to be all I had.)
And my third computer, a PowerMac G4, 400 mhz with 320 megs of RAM and 80 gigs of hard drive split between a 20 and a 60. Running an ATI Rage 128, I believe, but I haven’t gamed on it in forever, aside from a round of DROD or two during one of my several lengthy PC outages.
08/07/2008 at 03:15 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
08/07/2008 at 03:48 RichPowers says:
os- Windows XP SP 2 and Ubuntu Linux
cpu- AMD X2 6000
mobo- ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe
ram- 2GB Gskill
video- PNY 8800 GTS 512 MB
audio- onboard
drives- 2x 500 GB Western Digital SATA
displays- 24” 1920×1200 Samsung 245BW
input- Dell keyboard, Razer mouse, n52 speedpad
Wow, it’s awesome to see so many people running Ubuntu and its variants! More native games in the coming years?
08/07/2008 at 04:06 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
08/07/2008 at 04:33 Jason says:
Self built machine as follows:
Core 2 Duo E2180 @ 2Ghz
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
2GB Ram, Kingston DDR2800
Nvidia 512mb 9600GT
1x WD Caviar 300GB drive
1x WD Caviar 500GB drive
1x Sony DRU-510A DVD Burner
1x Sony DRU-820A
Sound:
RealTek HD Onboard
Logitech X-540 5.1 surround sound
Input:
Cheap $5 keyboard
Logitech ‘New’ G5
Display:
2x Samsung 204B 20″ LCDs
Running on XP64 with an eye to Linux.
08/07/2008 at 05:33 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.
08/07/2008 at 06:21 SwiftRanger says:
Self-built setup with some upgrades over the past years:
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.6 GHz HT S478 512K FSB800
Motherboard: Asus P4P800 Deluxe I865PE
Memory: Apacer 2x 512 DDRAM
Video card: Radeon 9600 Pro 128 Ram
Hard disk: Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 120GB SATA 8MB 7200 RPM
Mouse: Logitech Wheelmouse Optical MX500
Keyboard: Logitech Internet Navigator PS2/USB
Speakers: Creative Inspire 2.1 2400
DVD drive: Liteon DVD 16x/48x
CD rewriter drive: Liteon 52x/24x/52x Smartburn CD Rewriter
Fans: 2x Enermax Case Cooler 80mm PRM CONTROL
Case: Chieftec DX-01WD Medium White 340W
OS: XP Home 32-bit
Headset: the Logitech thing that came free with the UT2k4 Special Edition
Screen: Samsung 19″ 2ms SyncMaster 940bf
No actively used gamepads. Pretty old but I’ve been holding off on an update for a year now till some good Radeon cards would appear, the 4850 seems like a proper fit. There is a laptop too in the house but it’s too slow in everything and not exactly mine either.
08/07/2008 at 06:45 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!
08/07/2008 at 07:34 Edgar the Peaceful says:
E6600
X1950XTX – A behemoth two years ago
2 Gigs of 800Mhz DDR2 RAM
X-FI – vital!
240 Gig of HD
Xbox Controller – only really used for Psychonauts
Pentium III 1 Ghz Laptop – only good for very old games.
08/07/2008 at 08:01 Nallen says:
E6600, 2Gb DDR2 533, 360Gb SATA HDD, on board sound.
8800GTX, 2x 19″ Monitors.
Oh and an Xbox pad.
08/07/2008 at 08:47 Tempfoot says:
#1 Self Build:
Core 2 Duo E6750 (2666mhz)
EVGA 8800 GTS 512
EVGA nForce 650i Ultra
Raidmax Smilodon Case
2 gb Corsair Dominator @ 800Mhz
1.5 Tb in assorted Drives
Viewsonic 28.5 Widescreen LCD
Dual Boot XP Home and Ubuntu Studio (Hardy)
Second Game Machine:
Gateway Athlon 3800 – 2 GB – Sapphire X1950XT (fun chore ripping apart the back of the case to accomodate the extra fan width). XP Home
Two Logitech Dual action game controllers, also a vast collection of similar peripherals including MS Sidewinder controllers (Strategic Commander, FF Sidewinder 2, Dual Strike) , A Nostromo 52, an old Saitek Action Pad , and three outdated pads that require old style joystick ports (RIP).
08/07/2008 at 09:33 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.
08/07/2008 at 10:19 po says:
NZXT Lexa Blackline Case
Coolermaster Real Power 1000w Modular Power Supply
EVGA 780i motherboard
Zalman Reserator XT modified to use Laing DDC Ultra 18w pump.
Intel E8400 under Swiftech Apogee GTX waterblock
2x EVGA 8800 GTS 512MBs with Aquacomputer AquagraFX 8800GT/GTS (G92) full cover water blocks
OCX 2x2GB Flex II PC2-9200C5 DDR2 (water cooled)
2x300GB Maxtor HHDs and 2x 60GB Maxtors in RAID 1 (yeah, Maxtor, ick. They’re spares after I fitted the file server with Seagates)
Samsung 16x DL DVD-RW
Hanns-G HG281D 28″ 1920×1200 monitor
Benq MP720 2500 lumen 1024×768 DLP projector.
Saitek Eclipse 2 keyboard with a few modifications (defaults to red lighting when turned on, left hand windows key rewired to ‘/’, has a nipple on the ‘w’ key as well as the ‘f’ and ‘j’ keys).
Razer Lachesis mouse (1600DPI, 9 programmable buttons), and Mantis mouse mat.
Thrustmaster Hotas Cougar joystick and throttle. What the **** do I want a gamepad for?
Creative 5.1 surround speakers (for use with Hanns-G monitor).
Sony 350W 5.1 speakers (for use with Benq Projector).
Also got a 2.4GHz 17″ MacBook Pro with 4GB and the screen upgrade to 1920×1200, and a Dell Poweredge 1950 sat under my couch which is hosting a BF2 AIX server at the moment, and will be colocated once I buy a couple of SAS drives for it and install VMWare, so I can rent games servers to help cover the colo costs.
08/07/2008 at 10:56 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.
08/07/2008 at 10:58 Jon says:
I’ve got a P4 (531) 3.0Ghz cpu with 1gb of RAM and a Geforce 7300GT graphics card. It cost about £200 and is a proper bargain box for playing WoW and BF2142, and not much else.
Does the job, but would love to build a bonkers octo-CPU box someday.
08/07/2008 at 12:41 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.)
08/07/2008 at 12:44 LSNDuck says:
Main machine:
Athlon 64, 3300+ (I think)
GeForce 7600 of some variety
1GB RAM.
Fiancee’s laptop (when we play WoW together, I get this, she gets my machine, sulk):
Intel dual core 2.2GHz(?)
2 GB RAM
Intel mobile chipset.
My laptop (for older games):
Celeron 1GHz
I have one pad (a generic PS2 clone).
08/07/2008 at 13:17 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 wanksHandy 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.
08/07/2008 at 13:37 Rockeye says:
My main PC:
AMD Athlon 64 3700
1 GB RAM
7600GT
I haven’t bothered with Crysis, so nothing has run poorly on it yet. Might be due an upgrade at some point.
I’ve also got a 4G Eee PC that I’ve put 1GB RAM in. I left the Xandros Linux OS on it because I’d like to know how to use Linux, but have been using it for games (Uplink and Grid Wars 2 run on it natively, I’ve got Sacrifice and Jedi Knight II running through Wine so far and ZSNES is great for Snes ROMs).
I do own a gamepad, a Thrustmaster dual analogue something-or-other, and a cheapo Saitek ST90 joystick.
08/07/2008 at 14:00 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.
08/07/2008 at 14:53 Switch625 says:
I have an Athlon 64 X2 (the latest one which fits in a 939 socket since I haven’t got the cash to spend on a new motherboard) with an XFX nVidia 8800GTS and 2Gb of RAM.
I’m running Vista, and have reached a point where, although it continues to drive me insane, I’ve become so reliant on some of the new features that I can’t ever go back. Dammit.
The PC runs most stuff OK, though the bottleneck is definitely the aging CPU.
I have 3 rubbish MS gamepads, 2 playstation dual shocks and an adaptor, and a mighty, mighty Sidewinder Precision Pro joystick. I hardly ever use any of them. But then I mainly play Guild Wars and Sins of a Solar Empire.
08/07/2008 at 16:51 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.
08/07/2008 at 17:29 Soundofvictory says:
Athlon 64 3200+
1gb RAM
Nvidia 7900GS
~300 GB HD space
Oh bugger. I need to upgrade…
08/07/2008 at 17:55 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
08/07/2008 at 18:01 Bendak says:
Evesham Quest Roma Laptop
AMD MT-37 64 1.8Ghz
ATi Mobility x700 128mb
1024 mb Ram
I’ve been stuck with this thing for the past 3 years.. it’s got me through my WoW/CS addictions and is now only used to play TF2. Hope to purchase a new rig sometime this year as i’ve got a catalogue of games i’d like to play which run on pixel shader 3.0
08/07/2008 at 19:03 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).
08/07/2008 at 19:22 Tim James says:
i have two, my main pc
core 2 duo 3.2ghz
4 gig o ram
geforce 8800 gt 512mb
about a tb i assorted harddrives
22″ dell widescreen (only the sceens from dell, the rest is home built)
i also have a gaming laptop,
athlon turion 3ghz
2 gig o ram
geforce 7900 sli
200 gig harddrive
both run vista, ultimate 64 bit on the desktop, busines 32 bit on the laptop
08/07/2008 at 21:27 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 :)
09/07/2008 at 00:44 Thumper says:
Antec Sonata II Case
Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
2GB DDR2 Mushkin… can’t remember the speed. Fast I think?
320 GB Seagate Barracuda SATAII
ATI Radeon HD4850
Samsung Syncmaster 22″ Widescreen
Logitech G15 Keyboard
Logitech MX510 Mouse
Vista 32 bit home edition
I own a PC/360 gamepad but I don’t use it for anything atm, I even sold my Xbox so it’s just gathering dust.
09/07/2008 at 04:40 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.
09/07/2008 at 08:55 wcaypahwat says:
AMD X2 4800
nVidia 7900 GTX
2 gig of ram
250gb seagate HDD
all in an nzxt lexa case, which makes the kids at work shit bricks when i drag it in.
samsung 19″ widescreen lcd. 1440×900 FTW!
Logitech G15 (original edition) G9 mouse
got a wireless 360 controller (upgraded from a jury rigged original xbox controller) and one of the basic logitech joysticks.
it plays crysis and oblivion without too many hiccups on as mostly top settings (or as close as one can get, with dx9, crysis-wise)
got a motorolla hiptop/sidekick for internet access, and im planning on picking up an EEE in the next couple of weeks.
09/07/2008 at 21:44 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 :)
10/07/2008 at 00:46 cctoide says:
Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboard
Asus EN7950GT 512MB
2x 1GB Kingston ValueRAM (dual channel config)
Maxtor 250GB SATA2 HD
Stock 520W PSU
Logitech G5
Logitech G15
Sony HS95 19″ TFT LCD
Hercules sound system (subwoofer + 2 satellites)
Basically, it’s scary how similar to Thumper’s my system is.
10/07/2008 at 01:53 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.
10/07/2008 at 02:06 James says:
And like David McBride, SB Live 5.1 connected to FPS1000s, because the Linux driver still works (fuck you Creative).
10/07/2008 at 10:59 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.
10/07/2008 at 11:32 Gap Gen says:
Actually, this is the computer I use when I’m at work. The days when computers filled entire cathedrals are not over.
10/07/2008 at 12:40 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)
10/07/2008 at 12:41 Manwe says:
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
10/07/2008 at 16:24 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?
11/07/2008 at 15:27 Necros says:
P4 3GHz
1.5GB RAM
7600GT
Abit IE7-E2
250GB Samsung
SyncMaster 753DFX
11/07/2008 at 16:53 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.
21/07/2008 at 13:17 michael says:
-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.
07/10/2008 at 07:50 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
07/10/2008 at 08:17 Martin Kingsley says:
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.