PC gaming peeps, what all is in your rig?

[hanselthecaretaker]

I'm getting back into pc gaming and picked up Half Life 2. However, my wimpy graphics card ain't cuttin it (low end Nvidia Geforce4). I have a Pentium 4 running at 2 ghz, 512 megs RAM, but am thinking of upgrading to a gig of ddr2 sdram, plus switching out my Nvidia card with an ATI Radeon X800, which I hope my motherboard accepts. I'm thinking I should be able to run Half Life 2 with full effects then.

 

[mountain muscle]

What kind of motherboard do you have?

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

What kind of motherboard do you have?

Planar motherboard from a Dell Dimension 4550.

It looks like I'd only be able to go with ddr sdram on that board. Damn.

 

[ZKaudio]

not for gaming, but might as well be..

gf7900 x2

conroe e6600

4 gb ram

6 320 gb drives paired up into 3 raid 0 arrays

dvdburner

etc.

it's my music room computer, but I should probably get a game or two on it... haven't played half life since college... are there any really cool new games out there?

 

[UA_Iron]

whats your budget?

I'm running:

Asus P5B deluxe/wifi
2 gigs Patriot DDR2-800
2-250gig Seagate SATA2 drives in Raid 0
evga 7900GTO gpu
zalman cnps 9500 heatsink


Running Windows Vista on:

AMD 3700+
Biostar Tforce 6100
1 gig Mushkin Redline DDR500 2-2-2-6 1T timings
40 gig hd

 

[NickyE3]

I dont game much on pc - play mostly F.E.A.R. and old ROMS
Dell Dimension 5100
Pentium 4 3.2GHZ - HT
4X256 DDR RAM modules
128MB Radeon video card
160GB SATA

Dell Inspiron E1505
1.6 Intel Duo Core
1X512MB RAM
80GB HD
Dual Layer DVD burner
128MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1300

 

[UA_Iron]

I dont game much on pc - play mostly F.E.A.R. and old ROMS
Dell Dimension 5100
Pentium 4 3.2GHZ - HT
4X256 DDR RAM modules
128MB Radeon video card
160GB SATA

Dell Inspiron E1505
1.6 Intel Duo Core
1X512MB RAM
80GB HD
Dual Layer DVD burner
128MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1300

I mainly look at porn and do some CAD work.

how do you like your laptop? Those Intel dual core notebook cpus are supposed to work really well

 

[NickyE3]

I mainly look at porn and do some CAD work.

how do you like your laptop? Those Intel dual core notebook cpus are supposed to work really well

loving the laptop, mostly a multimedia laptop - has good performance. I should have gotten the top of the line monitor for a larger resolution. Instead i got the middle option - largest setting is 1280 X 800.
Best bang the for the buck though, total with shipping was like $820
Now I have something to keep me busy during class

 

[UA_Iron]

loving the laptop, mostly a multimedia laptop - has good performance. I should have gotten the top of the line monitor for a larger resolution. Instead i got the middle option - largest setting is 1280 X 800.
Best bang the for the buck though, total with shipping was like $820
Now I have something to keep me busy during class

where you go to school at?

 

[NickyE3]

where you go to school at?

Fort Hays State University
Hays, Kansas

 

[Basic_wonder]

Asus A7V333
XP 1900+
Alpha Pal 8045(Y S tech adj.)
1 gig Corsair Ram
WD SE 250Gb
WD SE 250Gb
Ati Radeon 9800XT

I only use my comp for computer graphics anymore so there is no need to upgrade it. I have my 360 for all my gaming needs .....

 

[craig145]

Intel Qaud Core Extreme 6700 @ 3ghz
2Gig 4-4-4-12 DDR2 Ram
Evga 680i Motherboard
Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTX 768mb
2x Western Digital Raptor in stripe raid
Dvd& cd burner
Zalman Pure coppper heatsink
Artic Silver Thermal Compound
OCZ 800w Gaming Power supply

 

[Faenya]

I wouldn't buy either 8800gtx cards or Vista, at least for a few more months. There's huge incompatabilities with certain games and that combination, though Vista in general on its own has huge issues, as always.

Also generally, when nvidia first releases cards their drivers are shit for a good few months.