Your gaming PC setup
I'm in the process of buying a new PC and was wondering what kind of setup everyone is using.
What are the specs of your system and how well has it ran what ever new games you are playing? Also what upgrades are you getting next?
Here is my setup.
-COOLER MASTER Centurion Black Aluminum Mid Tower Computer Case with 480w psu
-ASUS P5B LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard
-eVGA Geforce 7600GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card
-Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 Conroe 2.13GHz LGA 775 Processor
-Two Patriot 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 Desktop Memory
-Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB 7200 RPM
-Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
-Logitech G5 2-Tone 6 Buttons 1 x Wheel USB Wired Laser Mouse
-SAMSUNG 18X DVD±R DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write
-24' HYUNDAI LCD HD TV
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Cooler Master Stacker RC-830 Full Tower
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750watt
Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe
EVGA Geforce 8800GTX 768MB
Core 2 Duo E6400
2GB Corsair XMS DDR2 800
Western Digital Raptor 150GB
Western Digital 200GB SATA 3GB/s
Razer Tarantula Gaming Keyboard
Microsoft/Razer Habu Gaming Mouse
LG 18XDVD-R
22" Westinghouse LCD (Soon to be replaced by the 37" 1080P TV set)
My next upgrade will actually come along with Vista sometime later this year. Once Nvidia gets the drivers solid on the 8800's I'll get a second GTX for SLI. This year will probably bring another motherboard/processor upgrade for me as well. The 680i platform has some issues at the moment, but once those are ironed out I'll be switching to a 680i board and probably an E6600. At least that way I can move to Quad core someday down the road when there's actually a reason to do it.
As far as games.. well since I got the 8800 it runs pretty much everything really well. Lately I've played GRAW PC, Guild Wars, CS: Source, the Supreme Commander demo, and quite a few other games. The system runs everything smoothly, no performance related issues to mention at all really.
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Lian-Li PCV2100B
Core 2 Duo 6700
EVGA 680i Mobo
4GB of Corsair Memory
2 BFG 8800GTX's
2 WD 150GB Raptors
3 Seagate 750GB
X-FI Sound Card
Dell 30" LCD
I may at some point swap out the mobo and videocards if ATI's R600 proves to be something to get.. especially its Vista performance. I dont have much faith in Nvidia anymore.
Right now under Vista everything is a mixed bag.. some games run well.. others dont run. Even under XP though Nvidia's 8800 drivers left much to be desired.
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ASUS P5WD Deluxe
Core 2 Duo 6400
2GB RAM
ATI X1950XTX 512MB
WD 320GB SATA
1 Seagate 400GB
22" Westinghouse LCD
Logitech Cordless Desktop MX5000 Laser
Next update, probably 6 months to a year for a DX10 card.
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I will post my semi-dated machine to bring the average down a little:
Gigabyte K8NS Ultra-939
Thermaltake Tsunami Dream
Athlon 64 3700+ w/ Zalman cooler
2GB RAM
HIS X1950Pro AGP
WD 16MB cache SATA drive that I can't remember how big it is
Dell 1905FP LCD
Logitech MX Revolution
Saitek Eclipse KB
Just upgraded to the X1950Pro AGP from a 9800 Pro and I'm very happy to have staved off a full upgrade for at least another year.
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Dell Poweredge 420SC
P4 2.8GHz
1GB RAM (I think)
ATI x1650 Pro
2x 160GB EIDE drives
NEC Multisync 17" LCD
Logitech MX518
DVD burner
CD burner
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
My computer was pretty sweet... 3 years ago.
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Uh, yeah, my system is completely dated here, heh.
Enermax 350W PSU
Asus K8V-X SE Socket 754 motherboard
Sempron-64 3100+ 1.8GHz CPU
1GB RAM, 2x512 PC2100
ATI x850XT PE AGP 256MB DDR3
1x80GB, 1x120GB drive, Western Digital and Maxtor, respectively.
4x LG DVD±RW burner
Dell P991 19" CRT
Next upgrades? Possibly a Newark core S754 chip, around an AMD64 3700+ or so. Maybe PC3200 RAM.
However, it's looking more likely that I'm going to sell it and buy a nice LCD for dual-display on my Mac.
Mystic Violet wrote:
Ditto. Built my system one year before HL2 came out.
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Antec P180 Case
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750watt
Asus P5N-SLI
2 EVGA Geforce 7900 GTOs
Core 2 Duo E6600
2GB Corsair XMS DDR2 800
300Gb SATA Drive
3 Monitors:
Princeton 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor (1680 x 1050) in the center
flanked by 2 Viewsonic 17" LCD Monitors (1280x1024)
I have to disable SLI to run 3 monitors, but it's easy enough to re-enable for gaming. Even without using SLI, most games run great, and I can keep WoW open on one monitor and, um, "work" on the other two:)
Dell XPS 410
Core 2 Duo 6600
Nvidia 7900 GS vid card
2 gb of Kingston Ram
19" Acer LCD
G7 Logitech Laser Mouse
250 gb hd
Works for me. I will upgrade the vid card when/if I switch to Vista in the future.
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lunabean wrote:These newer vid card names are sounding like different car models... "BFG 9,000 GTR TURBO!"
My computer consists of:
AMD Opteron 146
1 GB Kingston RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
2x SATA drives in RAID 0 striping
Audigy 2 ZS sound card
State of the art as you can tell.
It's gonna feel like you took a tray full of cookies and BAKED THEM UP IN YOUR ASS!!!
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Thermaltake Aguila Case
Core 2 Duo 6600
eVGA 680i Mobo
4GB of Corsair Memory TWIN2X2048-8500
2 XFX 8800GTS's
2 Seagate 160GB SATA RAID0
X-FI Sound Card
Thermaltake Toughpower 850W PSU
1 x Dell 24" WLCD / 2 x Dell 21" WLCD
Thanks to GG for the template
Loving the setup thus far... accept I really hope they fix the 8800 driver issues
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Abit 965 board
C2D 6300 (o/c to 2,33 GHz, stock cooler)
7900GS
2 GB RAM (DDR2-800)
X-Fi Music
This machine can do absolutely everything at 1280x1024, which is perfect considering I have 17" LCD. It runs Supreme Commander on two screens without a hitch.
And I can't really call it expensive. Considering that I got this after Barton 2500 with a gig of RAM and 6800GS, bang for the buck is unbelievable.
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Mac Pro, quad 2.66GHz
ATI x1900XT, 512MB, with aftermarket Accelero X2 cooler
4 gigs of Kingston RAM
Raptor 150
Turtle Beach Audio Advantage Roadie (for 7.1 sound... the onboard sound sucks.)
Windows Server 2003 (because XP won't see more than 2 gigs. XP64 would work too. Or Vista. [Blech.])
Best part:
Dead quiet. Can hear the hard drive seeking and nothing else.
Other good points:
A. My entire labor investment in getting this thing quiet was putting the Accelero on the x1900. Other than that, it was pretty much just popping in the RAM and going.
B. The chipset supports 64 gigs. (of RAM!) Hopefully Intel will get the FB-DIMMs more mainstream so they get cheaper. RAM is very expensive on the Mac Pro. The fundamental memory technology is the same, but the FB-DIMM driver chips add cost. (and a little memory latency, but that's mostly hidden by the giant caches in the Woodcrest cores.)
C. It runs OSX, which is cool. I tend to stay in Windows more because the games I play are mostly there, but if I'm in OSX I feel no inherent desire to switch back. It runs fine, does a good job, and looks very nice. It's different than Windows, but very comfortable once you get used to it.
D. This thing is scary fast... can load it down with an ungodly amount of work and it just keeps on chugging. I've been known to run two games on it at once and alt-tab back and forth.... and that's like a 50% load. I very frequently will rip or burn CDs, while downloading big files from Usenet, and playing a game, all at once. In theory, I could encode a video TOO and it would all run fine. I haven't actually done that yet, three CPU-intensive things is about as far as I've taken it, but it's nice to know it's there if I ever need that fourth thing.
E. Foobar rips from FLAC to LAME MP3 at a little better than 100x speed. (about 45 seconds per CD.)
F. Supreme Commander runs like buttah.
This thing rocks.
Oh, how I envy you that. *grumble*
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Antec Sonata 2
Antec 500W Smart Power PSU
AMD Opteron 165 with Zalman 90mm AlCu cooler
EVGA 256MB 7800GT
2GB PC 3200 Kingston RAM
80GB Maxtor HDD
250GB Hitachi HDD
Presonus Firepod audio interface
Edirol UM-880 MIDI interface
Dell 20" widescreen LCD
My system was pretty capable when I built it a little more than a year ago, but I am definitely starting to feel the itch again. As soon as a DX10 video card hits that $300 price point I am all over that sh*t.
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If you're interested in benchmarks Anandtech has a write-up.
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O boy that was funny....
The point of the thread was not to out do someone but instead show what games you are playing with your PC setup (that are running well or not so well). Then talk about what up grades or whole new system's you are looking at next. It's cool to see what everyone is using to game on.
I don't have kids yet and it's still taking months to save up and buy a system.
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Well, I'm sorry to have missed the point of your thread, Brae.
S'pose I'll take my poor attempts at humor to other threads...
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par wrote:
Ooh, me wants. Very nice, par.
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I'm on the fence. I'm using a PC i built almost 5 years ago, which was top of the line then (2.4ghz Pentium 4). Upgraded the graphics card to a Nvidia 6800 some time back, and upped the mem to 1 gig. Runs most things well, but getting a bit rusty.
I want a new system, but i'm being drawn to the Mac side of things. So I wait quiely, waiting for the new Mac Pros to be announced (cmon 8800 support), while thinking about building something along the lines of GameGuru's machine, or par's. I like what you've done with the Mac Pro, Malor.
Still a wait and see for me. When Vista SP1 comes out, i'll probably whip out the wallet and decide then.
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I bought my 360 instead of a computer because it's cheaper and the games are currently better.
Then I bought a 42" plasma, so i guess the economic argument's sort of out.
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No really, I was laughing my ass off. I thought it was funny as hell. I would have been thinking the same thing.
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jonnypolite: it is one sweet machine. It would be perfect if it had one PCI slot. Well, strike that. One PCI slot and two doublewide PCI Express slots. I don't think I'll ever bother with Crossfire/SLI, but it'd be nice to have the option if I changed my mind. I don't think it will do two x16 cards at once, but that's really not very important anyway. 3D graphics are not bandwidth-starved, and you'd have to be running a very unusual application to actually need anything past two x4 slots or so. You will see zero difference between x4 and x16 on any current game. That might change someday, but only if developers move away from the 'load everything into card texture memory and render from there' model.
To fit the extra slots, Apple would have to make the case a couple inches taller, so I tend to think it won't happen. PC gamers are probably not high enough on their list of target demographics to be worth the expense.
Depending on if the fan can hit all the correct parts of my computer I can run actual games. Like freaking Pong. And Magic Carpet.
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Mostly copied-and-pasted from my ZipZoomFly online receipt (11/29/05):
Antec Solution Series SLK3000B Super Mid Tower Case (Black)
Antec TruePower 2.0 430W Power Supply
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ Processor Socket 939
MSI K8N Neo2-F nForce3 Ultra Athlon 64(FX) Skt939 DDR ATX Motherboard w/Audio, Gigabit LAN, RAID/Serial ATA
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Sound Card
XFX PV-T40B-UDF3 GeForce 6800 GS AGP 8X 256MB DDR3 Video Card w/TV-Out & Dual DVI
1x (Boot disk) Seagate ST330630A 30GB 7200RPM
2x (Raid 0) Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200JD 320GB Serial ATA 7200RPM
Liteon SOHW-1693S 16X Dual Layer DVD±RW
Yamaha CRW-F1 44X/24X/44X CD-RW w/ DiscT@2 Technology
2x 1GB RAM (I bought this somewhere else so I don't have the details.)
Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
Microsoft USB IntelliMouse Explorer
Dell 2005FPW (1680x1050)
Dell P991 19" CRT (1280x1024)
Onboard audio is connected to Sennheiser mic/headset. Audigy is connected to Altec Lansing 4.1 speakers. I use the control panel to toggle which one is the official default device.
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