This was a thread way back when, and I enjoyed it so I thought I'd start it up again. Post your pictures of your gaming rigs, give some specs, brag a little.

So my machine is running an Intel Core i5, 4GB RAM, 500 GB hard drive, GeForce GTX 470, Some random Gigabyte motherboard. And don't forget the random RAM fan. For teh lulz, you guys know. All connections are SATA 6 if I remember correctly. I may have used SATA 3 but...well it isn't to important. Anyway, duel booting Ubuntu 11.04 for coding in Python, and everything else using Windows 7.

Pics attached.

What are you guys running?

An old picture as I have upgraded since then but the case, mobo, CPU cooler and PSU are the same.

Antec1200 case, Asus P5E with Asus Rampage Forumla flashed bios, 8GB (4x2GB) OCZ Reaper, Core2Quad Q6600 overlocked at 3.2Ghz, OCZ 780W PSU, Thermalright 120 True Black CPU cooler, Creative X-Fi Titanium Champion Edition, Sapphire HD6850 1GB, 2x Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB HDD's, 1 WD Caviar 500GB HDD, 1 Seagate 750GB External HDD, LG Bluray/HD-DVD combo drive, Windows 7 64-bit.

Operating System
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz 53 °C
Kentsfield 65nm Technology
RAM
4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 399MHz (5-5-5-18)
Motherboard
XFX XFX nForce 780i 3-Way SLI (Socket 775)
Graphics
P244W (1920x1080@60Hz)
512MB GeForce 8800 GTS 512 (EVGA) 70 °C
Hard Drives
488GB Western Digital WDC WD50 00AAKS-00YGA SCSI Disk Device (ATA)
1954GB Hitachi Hitachi HDS722020ALA SCSI Disk Device (ATA)
Optical Drives
ENAZUZ INWPMN45 SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
Creative X-Fi Audio Processor (WDM)

Dell Optiplex 755 Small Form Factor

Intel Core2 Duo @ 2.66 GHz with 2 gigs RAM
ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT Graphics Card
WinXP Pro SP3

Soon to be mine laptop :) (whenever it eventually arrives)

i7 2920 XM
8 GB RAM
ATI Radeon 6970M Crossfire
1.5 TB Hard Drive (RAID)
Blu-ray Drive

Phenom II x2 555
MSI 760FX motherboard
two ATI HD4850s
2g ram (Win XP 32bit)
650w PSU
on board audio + 7.1 headset
2 hard drives
Azza Solano 1000

I'm not gonna look up all the details, but things I know off the top of my head are:

athlon II x4 645 @ 3.1 GHz
gtx 460 se 1gb
antec 650 w psu
windows 7 home premium 64 bit
1 tb samsung harddrive
4 gb DDR3 ram
1080p monitor

Asus G73JH

Intel Core i7-740QM 1.73GHz
17.3" display
8gb DDR3
500gb HDD (Got it cheaper without the extra 500gb HDD)
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Super quiet, and runs just about everything I've thrown at flawlessly. My only gripe is it has an ATI card, but meh, it gets the job done.

laptop

intel core i7 1.73ghz
6gb ddr3
640GB Sata
Nvidia GeForce GT 335M

laptop

intel core i5
4gb ddr3
500gb sata
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670

Mine's pretty "old-school" compared to some of your rigs, but never change a running system I say:

Intel C2D E6750
4GB DDR2-800
Geforce 450
1TB Seagate HDD
Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows 7 both in 64-bit.

This cheapskate's box. Was considering a new build a year ago but a cheap CPU upgrade (K8 --> K10) gave it a new lease on life. Can play TW2 on medium. :D

AMD Athlon II X3 440 (3GHz tripple core)
Asus M2A-VM motherboard (ancient AM2 690G)
2GB DDR2-800
640 GB HDD Western Digital Caviar Black
XFX Radeon 4770 512MB
22" iZ3D stereoscopic monitor
Linux From Scratch, and WinXP (for gaming)

Core i7 870 on Asus sabertooth MB
8gb ram (Gskill)
hiper Anubis case
SSD Corsair F120
HDD 1 Tb (Samsung spinpoint F3)
plextor sata2 dvd burner
Radeon 5870
Lg 23" led monitor
win 7 pro 64bits

MS Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP3 (Pirated)
Linux Mint 9

Processor:
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Northwood - Socket 478 mPGA

Memory:
DDR1
2 x 1024 MBytes (2 GB)

Motherboard:
ASUSTeK Computer INC.
P4P800-VM

Graphics:
ViewSonic VP171b 16" Monitor (1280x1024@60Hz)
512MB AGP GeForce 7600 GS (XFX Pine Group)

Hard Drives:
156GB Western Digital WDC WD1600AAJB-00PVA0 (PATA)
195GB Seagate ST3200822A (PATA)

Optical Drives:
HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8400B

Audio:
SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio

Power Supply:
Hercules 500w (doesn't fit correctly)

Network:
Two network cards (one integrated, one PCI)


The only thing I pirate these days is my operating system, and even then, I avoid using it as much as possible. It's solely used for any gaming I can't do in Linux.

You know, I thought this was GOG. What are you doing with laptops that make my desktop look like garbage? Last I checked, you didn't need a fraction of that power to play 99% of games on GOG. Hell, I can even run the first The Witcher pretty decently. ;)


I won't lie. This machine is getting dated. If I could find a significantly better machine for $150-$200, I'd probably do it. Even my netbook is more powerful in some respects; it has the same 2GB of ram, but it's DDR2. In turn, the netbook has significantly better specs than the laptop I was using, which had 16MB of video memory, half the ram, and a quarter of the hard drive space.

People knock netbooks all the time and say you can't use them for gaming, but compared to my previous laptop, the thing is an absolute beast at a third of the weight. Plus, it doesn't get anywhere near as hot, I can use it anywhere since it has a working battery, a much better (if four inches smaller) screen, it has built-in wi-fi and bluetooth, a webcam and microphone, all of that used for $140. It's just amazing how versatile these "underpowered" laptops are.


I can play 95% of the games I have from other digital download stores on my desktop with great to perfect performance. Either you guys do some pretty resource intensive stuff on a daily basis or you're playing too many new games. ;)

Operating System
MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
MS Windows XP 32-bit
Kubuntu 10.10 64-bit

CPU
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (Toledo)

RAM
2.0GB Hyper-X Dual-Channel DDR @ 130MHz (2.5-3-3-6)

Motherboard
ASUSTeK Computer INC. A8N-SLI Premium (Socket 939)

Graphics
AL1916 (1280x1024@75Hz)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SLI

Hard Drives
977GB Western Digital WDC WD10 EARS-00Y5B1 SCSI Disk Device
488GB Western Digital WDC WD50 00AAKS-22A7B SCSI Disk Device
73GB Western Digital WDC WD74 0GD-00FLA1 SCSI Disk Device
500GB Western Digital WDC WD10EADS External USB Device

Optical Drives
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109 ATA Device

Audio
Realtek AC'97 Audio