My new PC specs

[Vympel]

I just laid down the cash for this beast today:

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Cooler Master Ammo Case

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600

ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe

2x1024MB RAM TWIN2X2048-6400

2x 320GB 16MB Seagate

POWERCOLOR PCIE X1950XTX 512 DDR4 2DHV Crossfire Edition

Samsung/Liteon Black Drive (whichever- DVD burner, you know)

Black 1.44M Floppy Disk Drive

Creative X-FI Xtreme Music

Logitech G15 USB Gaming Keyboard
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The keyboard is a "just because" as I already have a G5 mouse, and it matches.

With my four year-old computer replaced, things I'll finally be able to do:

- Play Prey (crashes)
- Play FEAR (crashes)
- Play Doom 3 (crashes)
- Play Chronicles of Riddick (crashes)
- Play TESIV: Oblivion with nice graphics
- Play Rome: Total War with maximum unit sizes, graphics, anti-aliasing
- Play Hitman Blood Money maxed out
- Play Lock On: Modern Air Combat
- Play KOTOR and KOTOR 2 (crashes after I replaced my video card)
- Play Half-Life 2 with nice graphics
- Play Call of Duty 2 with DX9 enabled (crashes)
- Play Medieval 2 :Total War

[Ace Pace]

Sweet. Planning on doing any overclocking?

[Vympel]

Sweet. Planning on doing any overclocking?

I don't like overclocking. I never do it.

[JLTucker]

I just laid down the cash for this beast today:

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Cooler Master Ammo Case

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600

ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe

2x1024MB RAM TWIN2X2048-6400

2x 320GB 16MB Seagate

POWERCOLOR PCIE X1950XTX 512 DDR4 2DHV Crossfire Edition

Samsung/Liteon Black Drive (whichever- DVD burner, you know)

Black 1.44M Floppy Disk Drive

Creative X-FI Xtreme Music

I envy you.

[Crown]

*weeps*

[Pu-239]

Hah, no OCing, what a waste


In hindsight, I should have gotten a 6600 too, since I run workstation type workloads rather than gaming, so the cache would help. Oh well. Still waiting for DX10 cards to come out before I upgrade beyond a Radeon 9250 PCI (in hindsight, also should have gotten a cheap PCIe card instead, no point in upgrading older crappy machines w/ it).

[Mange]

Impressive, most impressive... Have fun!

[Beowulf]

I'm going to break into your house and steal it.

[Icehawk]

The Core2 E6600 is an awsome processor. I bought one last month myself along wth a new mobo for it. Have never looked back. For the longest time I was planning to go over to AMD since they had been better than Intel for so long. As soon as I heard of the Core 2 Duo's and read the reviews of their utter pwnage of just about everything AMD, I canned those plans rather quickly.

[Edi]

Looks like a really great setup, Vym.

I've had the E6600 for just a couple of weeks, and I'm very, very happy with it. This rig I got replaced a circa 1999-2000 vintage rig that had a Socket 370 Celeron 500 on it and a motherboard that had to have replacement parts soldered onto it just to get me through the summer, which it barely did. I don't even wantto think of my backlog of games, though I did just get Unreal 2 out of the way. Now starting on Thief: DS, then there's Morrowind, Oblivion, Heroes 5, Call of Duty and whatever else I've managed to accumulate. The good thing is that most of the games I played did run on the old comp, even including HoMM4 as long as the extra animations were turned off. The good thing is that many of the games I've bought have been cheap rereleases, not the original pricey ones (except for Oblivion and HoMM5 Collector's Editions)

Edi