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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Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00 GHz
Corsair TX750, 750W ATX PSU
G.Skill 2×2GB
XFX GeForce GTX 280
Western Digital Caviar 640GB
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, for x64 (64-bit)
No controller
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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)
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
E6600, 2Gb DDR2 533, 360Gb SATA HDD, on board sound.
8800GTX, 2x 19″ Monitors.
Oh and an Xbox pad.
#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).
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.
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 2×2GB Flex II PC2-9200C5 DDR2 (water cooled)
2×300GB 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.
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.
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.
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.)
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Athlon 64 3200+
1gb RAM
Nvidia 7900GS
~300 GB HD space
Oh bugger. I need to upgrade…
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
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
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).
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
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
(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 :)
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.
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.