I tend to do a major upgrade or build every two years, but so far this system has kept me going for 3 years with only two minor upgrades (GPU & HD).

ASUS A8N-SLI Premium
AMD 64 X2 4400+ running @ 2.4GHz
2GB OCZ RAM 2-2-2-5T
BFG GeForce 260 (655MHz Core, 2250MHz MEM)
SB Audigy 2
250GB SATA II HD
400GB SATA II HD
DVD-R and DVD+RW

As for upgrades, I originally only had a 250GB HD, then added the 400GB later, and I recently upgraded from a GeForce 7800GT to the GeForce 260. I was thinking I'd need to upgrade my MB, CPU and RAM since my MB and CPU are Socket 939, but after installing the video card I can run everything I have maxed at 1680x1050, so think I'm good for a while. I'll see after November when all the new games start coming out.

It's also been very stable, I have not reinstalled WinXP since the day I built it.

Wow, that is one nasty sounding thing. Where's my BFG 9000? Time to paint the room red

In reply to this comment by marinara:
i bet yer machine would play the second half-life...that was fun.

BUT, after you upgrade get F.E.A.R..... it's an awesome game.... maybe even Quake IV

Actually was able to run those OK. Got HL2 Orange Box, Quake IV, played FEAR. The only thing my machine doesn't really fun are the latest games that came out in the last year or so, ie. CoD4, STALKER, UT3, etc.

It's a P4 3.2 (no duo/quad proc) with 2GB PC3200 and a BFG Tech Nvidia 7800 (still AGP). So it's definitely an older rig, but still handles everything say....pre-'07 pretty good. Eventually I'll upgrade but it won't be for awhile as I'm putting myself through school on my own. I make too much to get grants, etc, but not enough to go full time and get it done and over with fast. I'm thinking I'll have to upgrade for when Fallout 3, GTA4 and Left4Dead hit. Definitely upgrade for L4D.

he fails at the BFG sound. pew pew pew? no wai.

also, mid-vid ads FAIL.

Upvote for the reasonable looking BFG, but an almost downvote for trying to suggest their digital effects were anything but pathetic.

>> ^Mavmike:
Not much room for circle-strafing the dust bunnies. What happens if they shoot back!?


BFG

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Nice one. So the Rick Astley meme is sweeping the Web. Sometimes I wonder if we are ever responsible for starting these. The Doom Mod video showed up on Digg several days after being featured here.

When Rumsfeld came in it was supposed to be all Star Wars, high tech stuff... and it's turned out to be the opposite. Low-tech politics and social networks and IED's. It's the geopolitics, stupid. Better to engage root causes than rely on the latest BFG.

>> ^therealblankman:
Uggh. The sooner that this little bullshit meme has passed through the bowels of the intarweb, the better off we'll all be.


I agree with your initial sentiment, but there will just be thousands more bullshit memes to follow it.

I found this great quote the other day which I just realized needs to be updated:

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw

>> ^therealblankman:
Uggh. The sooner that this little bullshit meme has passed through the bowels of the intarweb, the better off we'll all be.


I would agree, but this is almost like a hilarious self-referential parody of the whole phenomenon.

>> ^maatc:
Annoyed by being constantly rickrolled?
Now you can easily block out all rickrolling sites by following this link
Works like a charm!


Did I know it was a trap?

yes.

..Did I click the god damned thing anyways?

...yes.

Bullcrap. The only way a phaser could pwn a BFG is if you set it to overload and that is not SOP and therefore doesn't count.

I hate fanbois.

Phasers pwn the BFG.

BFG kicks both their asses.

Right now I almost feel addicted to Team Fortress 2. I just can't stop playing.

In the past I was addicted to Quake 2 for a time. In my 2nd year of university I got Quake 2 for Xmas. After a month playing the solo game I went online and spent most of February 1998 drinking coffee and soda, eating fast food and donuts, and becoming an expert Quake 2 player. I don't think I went to more than a couple classes, and I'd be sketching Quake 2 drawings instead of taking notes, and I'd always get the urge to flee whenever I saw green in the corner of my vision -- look out, BFG! Then I got into working out and remembered I was at university surrounded by girls, and that lessened the addiction a bit, althought it basically split my focus between working out, girls, and video games. Then when I left town to go home for the summer I had to return my roommate's extra 3D card, and I wasn't about to play it in software mode. At the end of summer I bought myself a 3D accelerator and got back into the game with moderation.

I got addicted to Quake 3 in winter 2000/2001. For around two months it was all I wanted to think about. I got into a hardcore routine of buying 2 or 3 large coffees and sitting down for 6-hour ass-kicking sessions on CTF4 (space capture the flag).

Then in summer of 2001 I got pretty addicted to Tribes 2, and by then I had invested in real gaming hardware like a $500 video card, surround speakers, 19 inch monitor (pretty big back then). I'd stay up all night, enjoying myself immensely, playing for up to 10 hours at a time once or twice. I think Tribes 2 is probably still the most fun I've ever had playing video games.

Other multiplayer games I've been near-addicted to include Rainbow Six, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 2, and Aliens Vs Predator 2 (highly underrated!).

These days I lay out a lot of $ for gaming hardware (4GB RAM, X1950XTX CF Master with X1900XTX in crossfire, X-Fi Platinum, Dell 3007 WFP, Logitech Z5000, etc.. okay CPU is a generation behind.. X2 4400+), which can mostly be expensed to business, but which I would probably have anyways for hardcore gaming. Sorry for the e-peen but I love to talk gaming hardware and share gaming nostalgia.

I expect I will soon be addicted to Crysis.