In an effort to find out a bit more about our vast, seething readership we’re running a series of informal polls in the comments, like the one about games. This one is about your PC. What do you play on? Is it a clockwork steam-powered Pentium from the last century? Is it a mercury-cooled hyper-computer from 2009? Is it a ponce-sculpted Macintosh? Do you have a laptop too? We want to know what your gaming machines are like. And one other question: Do you own a gamepad for your PC?
I’ve currently got a cranky old Celeron 1.6ghz Aria laptop which I use as a second account machine for playing Eve. I also have an Asus EEE which will soon have XP on it for portable game fiddling, and my main maths-horse is a 2.2Ghz Core 2 Duo, 2gb RAM, with a Geforce 8800 GS.
I own three gamepads.
What about you?
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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.
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).
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
Built by me:
Intel Q6600 clocked at 3Ghz
2×2GB Corsair XMS2 PC-6400 DDR2
XFX 9600GT XXX (Waiting for the 4870×2 / 4870 1GB version and more student loan in the autumn…)
Seagate Barracuda 500GB
Samsung 223BW 24″ and a cheapo Acer 17″
Crappy speakers and headset
Vista 64bit
No control pad, looking at getting a wired 360 one when i can be arsed.
My old system (used for playing xwing v tiefighter and other old things)
Intel Pentium 133
92mb of RAM!!!
500mb 300mb hard drive space ( I think)
integrated gfx of some kind, stuff appears on the screen
15″ CRT
Windows 95
Old m$ Sidewinder joystick
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
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
@ 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
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
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.
Lots o’ boxes at the moment:
Main Box for ’serious’ gaming:
AMD 4200 X2 (64W, now labeled by AMD as the energy efficient line)
4×1GB of DDR2 800
250GB Hard Drive
7900 GS
M-Audio Revolution 5.1
19″ ViewSonic LCD, back from when the low end ViewSonics were made by ViewSonic.
XP Pro (32-bit, boooo)/Ubuntu 8.04 (soon to be 64-bit!)
No gamepads, I used to have a CyberStik2, which is now used by my dad to play the X-Wing games.
I play a number of older games such as Grim Fandango, Starcraft and Worms Armageddon on my T23 Thinkpad:
PIII Mobile 1.2ghz
256 MB of Ram
SiS SuperSavage w/ 16 MB (!)
Windows 2000/Ubuntu 8.04
I have a Powerbook G4 for work. A pity ATI doesn’t have Linux/PPC drivers, but I can still play Starcraft on OSX and SCUMMVM on Linux.
G4 1.0Ghz
512MB of Ram
Some ATI Video Card
Mac OS X/Ubuntu 8.04
Two boxes acting as servers. One is a screenless dell laptop, the other is an IBM Xserver.
PIII 1.0 Ghz mobile, 128MB of Ram, other is PIII 1.0Ghz and 1GB of Ram. I’ve been getting into the habit of storing save games on them to avoid having a half dozen half finished Sam & Max games.
This is my first summer with a reasonable paying job and I was sorely tempted to get a new LCD and CPU/MB/RAM. However, by the time I finished all the maintenance purchasing (motherboard and DVD drives died, replaced case, got a proper router, Window AC, new hd for Thinkpad) it’s not looking like I’ll have much money left over. :(
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.
I own a generic 2.10 ghz dual core athlon thing, with an ageing 6800 gfx card. And an Amiga.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- 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)
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.
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 :)
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.
Q6600
2gb DDR2 800
Gigabyte P35C-DS3
8800GT 512mb
250gb Seagate Barracuda
160gb Seagate Barracuda
650w Coolermaster PowerDuo
Thermaltake Soprano Case
Windows XP Pro
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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).
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.
self-built
Core 2 Duo
2 GB
8800 GTS
no laptops
no gamepads
C2D E4300 (OC @ 3.06ghz)
4GB DDR2 800mhz
640mb 8800GTS
2 – 250GB HDDs
Vista Home Premium X64
-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).
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
I forgot to add I have a Xbox 360 pad!
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)
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
Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4ghz)
2gb DDR2 667MHZ
2 x 300gb 7200rpm drives
Nvidia 8800GTX
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.
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
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.
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.
I’m running Vista with;
An 8200 Core2 Duo
a 8800gt
2gb ram
Now have to sell my kidneys to afford the months rent.
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
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).
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.