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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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.
A Q6600
8800GT 512
4GB DDR2
Vista 32
3 HDDs of varying capacities.
Oh and a 360 gamepad.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!!!!!
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!
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.
Antec Nine Hundred / OCZ StealthXStream 600W
E8400 / Asus P5Q
4GB DDR2-800 Corsair XMS2 Ram
2×500gb Seagate Drives
1×500gb 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
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.
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.
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.
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)
2×200GB 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.
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.
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.
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
Macbook. Integrated graphics card, one gig ram.
Any chance we’ll see the results of all this compiled at any stage?
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.
@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).
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
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…
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.
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.
I have a quad core 6600, 8800 GTX, 2gb ram, x-fi games, 2xsata 180Gb in Raid0, vista, and an xbox controller
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
Processor Information:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Speed: 2010 Mhz
1 logical processor
1 physical processor
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
Network Information:
Network Speed:
Windows Version:
Windows XP (32 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
DirectX Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.11.6921
DirectX Driver Version: 6.14.11.6921
Driver Date: 4 Dec 2007
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
VendorID: 0×10de
DeviceID: 0×391
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Desktop Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Primary Display Size: 16.93″ x 10.55″ (19.92″ diag)
43.0cm x 26.8cm (50.6cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 256 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x
Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek AC97 Audio
Memory:
RAM: 1023 Mb
Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Microphone: Not set
Media Type: DVD
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 114470 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 4942 Mb
OS Install Date: Jan 01 1997
Installed Packages: Firefox,Windows Firewall
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.
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.
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.
Antec P180
Core 2 Duo 6700 (3.5ghz)
Nvidia 8800GTX
2×500GB WD
1×150GB WD
1×150GB Something.
22″ LCD WS Viewsonic
Creative X-Fi.
1 gamepad.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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 ^^
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.
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
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.
Built mine last August, so almost coming up to its first birthday with only one hardware change – addition of soundcard.
Intel Core2Duo E6750 2.66 GHz, stock cooler
Asus P5N32-E SLI (nForce 680i)
GeIL 2GB (2×1GB) PC6400C5 800MHz DDR2 RAM
BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS 640MB (the original)
Corsair HX520W PSU
Samsung HD501LJ 500GB HDD SATA300
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music
2 x DVD -RW DL & Lightscribe drives, IDE
22″ LG L226WTQ LCD @ 1680×1050
Thermaltake VA9003BWS Kandalf Full Tower
Logitech G15 Keyboard (the original, blue one) and MX518 mouse
Sennheiser PC161 headset
No gamepad.
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.
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.