I'm in the process of building a new PC as mine is now getting a bit old to run the latest games at full speed in the higher resolutions. That is mainly down to the 7800GT I'm stlll using, but I think it is time to finally upgrade to a multicore CPU as well.

So what spec is your current main PC system?

My new PC will consist of the following:

• Q6600 CPU
• Arctic Freezer 7 Pro CPU cooler
• Asus P5Q Deluxe Motherboard
• 8GB DDR2 Ram.
• ATi 4870 1GB Graphics card
• Creative XFi soundcard
• 2.5TB SATA HDD space (existing drives)
• SATA DVD-RW (existing drive)
• 630W Coolermaster Realpower modular PSU

And this will be housed in my existing Thermaltake Tsunami case, with my current main system being moved to a Thermaltake Saprano case I also already have (which does have an older system currently in it, but that is being dismantled).
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My current PC:

Laptop
Asus A6VA
1700 Mhz
2 GM RAM 533
80 GB HD
ATI Radeon x700

The laptop chip set is Intel but AMD bought ATI, so since then drivers for my ATI dont work as they worked before, i think they prepare the video drivers for AMD machines but my laptop has intel chipset so....
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Do you really need reminding?
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I have two pc's but I guess my main one is the one I play games on so.

MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum MS-7025 Motherboard
AMD Athalon 64 3700+
4x512mb GIEL dual channel RAM
PNY GeForce 7800 GS GPU
I think I have a 150gb HD and a 120gb HD IDE drives and a 750gb SATA
Razer Krait mouse
USB Drum kit
JBL Creature II speakers
Cheap nasty joypad
Cheaper nastier keyboard
Windows XP sp3

I love this PC even though it is old and well out of date it will have to run games till I can afford a new one, but it has not failed me yet even on assassins creed (it was expensive once over).
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@Rayzorblue

Your current setup isn't that far from my existing main system spec.

Athlon 64 4000+
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
GeForce 7800GT
3GB Ram
etc..

And that does still run all current games, but not at 1280x1024 or higher resolutions. For most games released recently such as Far Cry 2 I've had to drop them down to 1024x768 to play with smooth framerates over 30fps with the nicer texture and shadow settings switched on.

Assassins Creed and even Crysis ran very well which was quite a surprise when i tried them. Assassins Creed ran especially well at 1280x1024 with most of the graphics settings quite high up. Crysis had to be dropped to 1024x768 to run with higher settings, but it ran higher with medium settings quite well. However with falling hardware prices I thought it was time to upgrade as the core bits of my existing system (motherboard, CPU, GPU) has just reached 3 years old, and the games now being released beefit a lot from a multicore CPU finally.
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My current PC specs are as follows:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
Asus VW192 LCD
Asus M2A-VM
nVidia GeForce 8600GT
2GB of RAM

Running Windows XP.
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P4 2.6 (overclocked to 3.0)
2GB RAM
Radeon 9550 256MB
XP SP3
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After a recent upgrade I have the following spec machines.

Gaming/Main

Intel Q6600 2.6ghz (slight OC)
4GB Kingston HyperZ DDR2 Ram
250GB Main system drive
500GB Data Drive
G9600GT 512MB GFX
Duel DVDRW Drives
Asus P5QC Motherboard
Vista Ultimate


HTPC

AMD64 3000xp
1.5GB RAM
1TB Raid
Windows XP with MediaPortal

Main pc is sweet, fast booting and runs like a dream!
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I think you need to change your christmas avatar StuKeith. It's March.

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I apologize, I did'nt notice!
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