Whats your gaming rig...

TYPE: XF-680i, custom built by myself

CASE: Antec P180. Two 120mm fans blowing exhaust directly above and behind the CPU, as well as one 80mm help push air from the front of the case to the back.

CPU: Intel E6600 - Native Clock: 2.4GHz, Overclocked to 3.6GHz.

MB: eVGA 680i

RAM: Corsair Extreme DDR2, 1024MHz - Dual Channel.

HD: Twin Hitachi Deskstar 160GB 7200RPM HDD's in RAID-0 (striping).

GPU: XFX 7800GTX Overlocked to 490/1600. (Soon to be upgraded to a 8800GTS).

SPU: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS

Monitor: Samsung 22" Widescreen, 2ms Response Time, 3000:1 Contrast.

Speakers: Logitech X530 - 5.1 Channel Surround

Mouse: Logitech MX518 (Soon to be G5)

Keyboard: Saitek Eclipse II

OS: Windows XP + Ubuntu/Kubuntu on VMWare

Removeable: ASUS EP616, 16x DVD-R, Plextor PX-716A - 4x DL-DVD+R, 16 DVD+R.

Temperatures:

GPU - 60C Idle (Quiet Setting [40%])
GPU - 50C Idle (Loud Setting [100%])
GPU - 95C Maximum Load (Quiet Setting)
GPU - 80C Maximum Load (S.T.A.L.K.E.R on full settings with 100% fan)
CPU - 45C Idle (Default Settings)
CPU - 60C Full Load (Default Settings)
 
Hehe...

MBO - Chaintech God-knows-what-model
CPU - Intel Celeron 400
RAM - 80 MB SDR133
GPU - GeForce2 MX400
HDD - Western Digital 10GB
Other - AOpen combo drive, floppy drive, Samsung 753DFX, BTC keyboard, Logitech MX500
This one is, obviously, only for games over 7 years old.

The other rig, to which I have access about two hours a day (it's in my mom's office), is this one:
MBO - Abit NF7-SL
CPU - AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton
RAM - 512MB Kingmax DDR400
GPU - Radeon 9800 Pro
HDD - Maxtor 80 GB, 16MB Cache, 7200rpm
Other - Pioneer DVD-RW, floppy drive, ADI 19'' monitor, Logitech Internet Navigator SE, Logitech MX518
 
Processor: E6600
MB: Asus p5b-e
RAM: 2x1024 DDR2 Kingston
GFX: GeForce 8800gts (asus)
Case: Antec Sonata II
Monitor: Some generic 19"
Speakers: Logitech z-5500D
Harddrive: Seagate Barracuda 200gb
Mouse + Keyboard: Generic.
 
CASE: Antec p180 (black)

GPU: Antec Power Supplies Phantom 500™

CPU: AMD X2 4200+

RAM: 2(2x1) G Skill HZ (pc4000)

GFX: ATi 1900XT

HD: Seagate Barracuda 200gb +250gb

MB: DFI Lanparty

MONITOR: ViewSonic 19" VX912 8ms

SPU: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS

MOUSE: Logitech MX310

KB: Logitech something :)

Gonna get the R600, if it ever get out and maybe its time for a new CPU then.
 
SuAside said:
Dell sucks. assemble your own & get your money's worth...
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Before judging my actions why not ask the question, why did you buy a dell?...the answer is simply because I don’t have time to built my computer. I work 80 plus hours a week and the few spare moment I have I would like to spend them with my girl and spend time doing social activities. If my agenda permits it, I will build my next CPU like I always have.
 
weak excuse, & btw you don't build CPU's... unless you work for Intel, AMD, IBM or VIA that is.
 
Su is right. I assembled a PC two days ago and it took me no more than an an hour, with installing the OS and a few drivers and programs.
 
RUN_LIKE_HELL said:
Before judging my actions why not ask the question, why did you buy a dell?...the answer is simply because I don’t have time to built my computer. I work 80 plus hours a week and the few spare moment I have I would like to spend them with my girl and spend time doing social activities. If my agenda permits it, I will build my next CPU like I always have.
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Wait, you don't have enough time to construct a gaming rig, but you do have enough time to post here and play on the gaming rig?
That seems weird.

PS: My PC's way outdated, although it still runs everything fine:

AMD Athlon 64 3200+
NVidia Geforce 6600 GT 128 MB
1024 MB RAM @ 2.0 latency
 
AMD K-2 450 MHz
2x128 MB RAM
4 MB graphics card
6 GB + 32 GB HD
Win 98SE
 
Wait, you don't have enough time to construct a gaming rig, but you do have enough time to post here and play on the gaming rig?
That seems weird.
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If we where then you would be right, but we are now and I already have my computer...
 
My system is now beginning to seem dated.

Mobo: Gigabyte GA-8GPNXP Duo

Processor: Unsure, CPU-Z says one thing and Sandra 2007 says a different thing altogether. 3.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 Prescott, 1 MB cache with HT.

Memory: 2 GB of PC3200 RAM, CAS 2-2-2-5.

Graphics: 256 MB 7800 GTX, dual slot (meaning the card has a chunky heatsink, hard to overheat. If you have the space and don't care about SLI, try getting dual slot cards.)

Sound: Onboard

HD: 76 GB SATA Western Digital Raptor (OS HD) and 320 GB PATA for storing games and shit (I made a stupid mistake while ordering the damn thing, I ordered PATA instead of SATA). I don't trust RAID enough to do a RAID 0 for the game drive.

LAN: Dual Gigabit onboard cards

WLAN: useless wireless card, 802.11b

Optical drive: Sony DVD (insert acronyms at your leisure, burns DL, +, -, RAM)

Monitor: very popular, flat, 17inch LG model

I want to upgrade but I want a quad core system so that's a no, no.
 
RUN_LIKE_HELL said:
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If we where then you would be right, but we are now and I already have my computer...
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This sentence makes no sense whatsoever.

Skynet: I see no reason why you'd upgrade that PC now, really. It looks as if it could handle everything easily.
 
I've been looking for a new rig for almost a year, but it's impossible to get a decent rig in China. You would think a manufacturing giant like China would have decent prices and up to date technology, but hell no. It's backwards up to last Sunday. The most amusing thing is that parts or pre-configured machines are MORE expensive here. A Dell with the same rig cost US$400-800 more HERE. WTF? :lol: And there is no reliable dealer here, you get re-certified, fake, water parts(meaning supposedly smuggled to avoid customs to make it cheaper), and unknown Chinese made parts.

So, my question is, since I don't have the knowledge to check if everything is real and up to snuff here, what brand or set up would you guys recommend in a laptop to be able to run decent and up to date games? (I would have to be able to carry it with me after buying it back in Vancouver)

As for my own rig now, it's an Acer running an integrated chipset, 512mb ram, 50gb hd, 1.70, and not much of anything. :violent: I would never buy or tell my friends to ever buy an Acer again. In less than a year, the board fried, the connectors fried, and now it randomly reboots every so often just to remind me how shitty it is. :evil:
 
Starseeker said:
As for my own rig now, it's an Acer running an integrated chipset, 512mb ram, 50gb hd, 1.70, and not much of anything. :violent: I would never buy or tell my friends to ever buy an Acer again. In less than a year, the board fried, the connectors fried, and now it randomly reboots every so often just to remind me how shitty it is. :evil:
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Ha! Interesting, I've had just the opposite impression with my Acer laptop. I've been using mine heavily for a year and a half, and the only problems I've had with it were directly my fault. When I did have a problem (in that I spilled a coke over it), I found their support to be the best I've experienced.

Anyway, my laptop is my gaming computer, since I needed a powerful laptop anyway for college. It runs everything pretty well, though obviously not at full settings for the most modern games.

Intel Pentium M 760 (2.0Ghz, 533 Mhz FSB, 2 MB L2 cache)
ATI Mobility Radeon X700 128 MB
1024MB DDR2 533
 
Acer is actually one of the top laptop brands in Europe. if something goes wrong, the RMA process takes a while though. but other than that? quality is on par if not better than the laptops of the same pricerange.

are you sure it's an Acer, starseeker? ;)


PS: it's hard to say what to buy. Acer, IBM/Lenovo, Toshiba are usually ok. but stay away from Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, HP/Compaq,...
 
My conf -

M-B: Asus P5VD1-X
CPU: Celeron II 3.06ghz
RAM: 1gb ddr 400
GFX: Radeon 9550 256ram
SFX: Sb Live!
HD: 2xSeagate Barracuda 400gb 7200.8
CD/DVD: Lite-On 16x (recorder)
Peripherals: Logitech Y-ST39 Keyboard, A4Tech X750 mouse, some random speakers + woofer, some random Medion monitor.

Pretty much more than i need for my work and the games i play.
 
old rig:
P4 1.6 GHz
512 Mb RAM
Maxtor 40 Gb + Samsung 120 Mb
SB Audigy Platinum
Radeon 9600XT
some Gigabyte MB
unknown power supply
some crappy case

new rig:
AMD Athlon64 3800+
2 Gb RAM
Seagate Barracuda 320 Gb
Radeon X1950Pro
some Asus MB
Tagan 430W, Super Silent power supply
Coolermaster Centurion black case

mistakenly, I don't have a X2 CPU :cry:
by the end of the year, I'll probably upgrade to X2 CPU and buy a WD Raptor 74 Gb system hard drive with passive cooling... :D
 
TYPE: Mac Pro
CPU: 2x2.66 GHz Dual-Core Xeons
RAM: 3 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
GPU: Radeon X1900 XT
HD: 250GB SATA @ 7200RPM (says it's made by intel?)
MONITOR: 23" Apple Cinema Display
OS: Mac OS X + Windows XP

I didn't really buy it for gaming and I don't do much gaming on it. That might change this summer when I have more time on my hands.
 
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