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meelk · May 12, 2005, 04:02 PM

Just curious, since I dont have a mac, how many of you have a nice gaming pc, and what are its specs, and what are you looking forward to this year? I want to play:
Black and White 2
Spore
Stargate Alliance
Quake 4
Longest Journey 2

starman · May 12, 2005, 04:05 PM

2.53 GHz P4
ATI X800 Pro
Raid 0 250 GB SATA drives
Dell 2001FP
2 GB RAM

ManOfSteal · May 12, 2005, 04:09 PM

XBox.

gururafiki · May 12, 2005, 04:19 PM

I want one, but I spent all my money on my Mac's!

pman68 · May 12, 2005, 04:19 PM

Alienware Box
2.8 GHz P4
ATI 9600 Pro 128
120 Gig HD
17" Viewsonic LCD
1 Gig Ram

Looking forward to longhorn :-)

meelk · May 12, 2005, 04:36 PM

Yes, I'm very much looking forward to longhorn as well.

goMac · May 12, 2005, 04:56 PM

Stupid Double Post...

goMac · May 12, 2005, 04:57 PM

Self Built
3.6 ghz P4
Radeon X700 PCI Express
80 gig SATA Hard Drive
512 MB DDR2 RAM
Sony 18" LCD

I'm thinking this summer a mobo upgrade is in order with a bump in RAM and a RAID array.

olePigeon · May 12, 2005, 05:04 PM

Colleco Vision.

Oisín · May 12, 2005, 05:15 PM

I have a PC:

14" P4 2.0 GHz laptop
512 MB DDR RAM
40 GB Hard Drive
(Don't know the specifics of the specs; too lazy to go check)

- but it's not a gaming PC. It would be way too slow for that, first of all, and I can think of few things more boring than playing games. No, not true - 'old school' games are fun enough. And by 'old school', I mean games like Commander Keen, Tetris, even (for lack of better) Duke Nuke'm, etc. Anything newer or fancier than that is just boring. I'd rather be doing my homework, even, and that's saying something.

Vpro7 · May 12, 2005, 05:20 PM

I used to, but dumped it for an XBox and PS2.

mdc · May 12, 2005, 05:27 PM

gamecube, psp, and gameboy advance sp

Zimmerman · May 13, 2005, 12:09 AM

Antec Aria SFF - customized
Athlon64 3200+
1gb PC3200
GF 6800GT
SB Audigy2 NX
360gb hdd (160+200)

You can't game like this on a Mac...

/troll

Lateralus · May 13, 2005, 12:15 AM

I had built a gaming PC last year. But I couldn't draw myself away from OS X long enough to game on it so it ended up becoming a SETI box with a really fast video card.

Sold it shortly after I built it and haven't had a PC since.

Albert Pujols · May 13, 2005, 12:15 AM

P4 3.6 Ghz
2 GB of RAM
250 GB Hard drive
Radeon 9800 All-in-wonder

It's actually sitting in my closet, i've never actually used it.

My main gaming PC is a
1.6Ghz P4
1GB RAM
10 GB hard drive 4200 RPM (lol..)
40 GB external hard drive USB 2.0
Radeon All-in-wonder (32 MB) ...lol

sideus · May 13, 2005, 01:46 AM

2.083GHz Athlon XP
1GB RAM
80GB SATA Hard Drive
Geforce 4Ti 4600

iT4c0 · May 13, 2005, 01:56 AM

self build
AMD athlon 64 3200+
1GB DDR ram
80GB SATA
radeon 9600xt 128mb
19" CRT

effgee · May 13, 2005, 03:20 AM

Shuttle SB81P, for work as a test-/development-/etc.-box ... and a tiny bit of gaming:

P4 3.2
Radeon X850XT
2GB of RAM

badidea · May 13, 2005, 03:51 AM

PC free household here.

Randman · May 13, 2005, 04:37 AM

Originally Posted by ManOfSteal

XBox.

Ditto.

d.fine · May 13, 2005, 04:46 AM

Got rid of PC last week and replaced it with XBox. Am I glad I finally got rid of that piece of s***

angelmb · May 13, 2005, 06:58 AM

No way there is going to be a Microsoft powered beast inside my home.

Randman · May 13, 2005, 07:18 AM

M$ loses money on the XBox platform and it is the best gaming situation so I look at it as a win-win proposition.

Cipher13 · May 13, 2005, 07:28 AM

GA8I915PDuoPro
3GHz P4
ATi X600 Pro
120GB 'cuda
512MB DDR400

Upgrades coming soon:

Moving to 1GB of DDR2
Striped dual 120GB 'cudas

Awesome machine.

tae667 · May 13, 2005, 07:32 AM

I have every console by Nintendo and Sega. Dreamcast is the best!

Shaddim · May 13, 2005, 09:37 AM

Athlon 64 3200+
1GB of RAM
Nvidia 6800GT
74GB WD Raptor
19" Optiquest CRT
stolen copy of WinXP (f@#$ MS)

Built it to play WoW, and it does that very well.

turtle777 · May 13, 2005, 09:50 AM

Nope, none. Got no time for games

-t

trip · May 13, 2005, 09:52 AM

Originally Posted by ManOfSteal

XBox.

exactamundo !

Mister Elf · May 13, 2005, 11:24 AM

Homebuilt!

AMD Athlon 64 3600+
2 GB DDR
36GBx2 10k SATA drives
120 GB SATA drive
ATi Radeon X850XT PE PCIe
19" Kickass Viewsonic CRT

Randman · May 13, 2005, 11:29 AM

You built your own monitor? Wow, pretty impressive.

bradoesch · May 13, 2005, 06:32 PM

ASUS A8V Deluxe
Athlon 64 3000
1 GB PC3200 dual channel
200 GB WD SE 8 MB
GeForce 5700 LE (!)

dracoleb · May 13, 2005, 07:05 PM

AMD Athlon 64 3200+
ATI Radeon X800
1GB RAM
Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZX
Dual-boot Windows/Linux

Once I get WoW working in linux I'll be able to rarely touch Windows

MrForgetable · May 13, 2005, 07:28 PM

dell dimension 8100
pentium 4 1.3ghz
128mb RAM
20gb 7200rpm HD
32mb nvidia geforce somethingsomethingbleh.
windows ME
15" viewsonic LCD at 1024x768 with a line of dead pixels stretching 9/10s of the monitor vertically.

don't mess. please.

MilkmanDan · May 13, 2005, 08:40 PM

I am so poor.

ReggieX · May 15, 2005, 01:38 AM

No, and I never have time to play all my Nintendo 64 games either.

MaxPower2k3 · May 15, 2005, 11:03 AM

homebuilt a while ago. getting a bit outdated, but it still runs the latest games:

Athlon 64 2800+
512mb DDR333
360GB total internal SATA storage
Radeon 9700 Pro 128mb
Windows XP Pro SP2 (ew)

hooked up via component video adapter to a Zenith 27" HDTV in my bedroom. games look fantastic at 720p. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory in HD is probably the best-looking game i've ever played. Half-Life 2 is up there with it.

I use the box for games, music, and movies (thus the 360GB of HDD space, which actually isn't much compared to a lot of peoples' movie servers)

And, despite it being several times more powerful than my rev. A 12" PowerBook, I can't use it for more than a few minutes (with the exception of playing games) before i have to go back to OS X.

Cadaver · May 16, 2005, 11:22 AM

Home-brew.... In its current state of evolution:

Athlon XP 3200+ Barton (at stock 2.2GHz, 400MHz FSB)
Asus A7N8X Deluxe v2.0
BFG GeForce 6800GT OC (at 415MHz core, 1.1GHz RAM)
Audigy 2 ZS
1GB RAM (2x512MB dual-channel config)
120GB WD 1200JB PATA HD (main drive)
160GB Maxtor SATA HD (has page file partition)
Pioneer DVR-107 BLX
Sony 16x DVD-ROM
CoolerMaster WaveMaster case (black)
Logitech DiNovo wireless desktop w/ MX-700 mouse (the non-bluetooth versions)
2 x Dell 2001FP LCD displays

3DMark '03 score: 11992

PBG4 User · May 16, 2005, 11:31 AM

Just picked up a PSP last weekend and I just have to say, this thing is awesome!

I have an XBox too, but my wife controls the TV so I didn't game too much with the XBox. Now with the PSP I don't have to worry about who has control of the TV.

wdlove · May 16, 2005, 01:49 PM

I don't own a PC, Windows.

Link · May 16, 2005, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by ReggieX

No, and I never have time to play all my Nintendo 64 games either.

That honestly sounds exactly like me -- 'cept with a gamecube and xbox.

Abit667 · May 16, 2005, 03:21 PM

I have an Athlon 64 3000+ @ 2.5Ghz with a bunch of other nice stuff in it only because I won some of the parts in a raffle and thought it would be best just to spend the small amount of money to build a system around it. I never used it much though, played a couple games of CS:S and then it sat in the basement for a while as a linux folding@home box...I think recently my brother has taken it to play games on, I don't really care.

solero · May 16, 2005, 03:34 PM

AMD Athlon 2600+
Geforce FX 5500 256MB
80 HD (4200rpm)
512 PC400 Ram

TailsToo · May 16, 2005, 10:00 PM

Originally Posted by olePigeon

Colleco Vision.

Buck Rogers rules!!!! on cassette!

nickw311 · May 16, 2005, 10:04 PM

I have a Dell Laptop that I keep around to copy DVDs.... In fact I am copying a DVD on it now.