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This is my setup, from what me memory remembers,

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz
2 GB RAM
Can't remember MB but the stupid RAID controller doesn't work on it.
2 120GB hard drives using a software RAID 0
NVIDIA GEFORCE 7950GT 512MB for the video card
22" Viewsonic widescreen monitor (i love this thing)
450W power supply with cool blue lights.....oooooohhhhh
of course the CD/DVD burner
Microsoft Windows XP Pro,
and hope to soon have new audio card, tv tuner, and logitech gaming kb and mouse..........as soon as financial aid comes in

EDIT on 11/6/07: Woot! just got a logitech G5 mouse along with a copy of Tabula Rasa, now am planning to order a logitech G11 keyboard when I get home.

Gaming Rig
AMD X2 4800+ 64bit
4 gig DDR2 800mhz FSB RAM
2 x ATI X2900 HD XT 512Meg GDDR3 Crossfire mode
ASUS Crossfire Motherboard with 2x1gigbit ethernet ports
DVD+- RW
1 x 36gig Raptor 10'000 rpm IDE (operating system only)
4 x 500Gig 7'200RPM SATA harddrives in Raid pair's
1k watt power supply
CREATIVE SOUNDBLSTER X-Fi Elite Pro
Philip USB External Soundcard
7.1 Surround sound Cambridge soundworks (connected to x-Fi)
Surround Sound Stenheiser Headphones (connected to Philip's external)
2 x Deskmics
D-Link Wireless Card 108meg/sec
USB TV Stick
Logitec MX1000 Gaming mouse
Logitec De-Novo Edge Keyboard
Logitec Sphere Cam
Vista Home Premium 64bit edition
32in Samsung HD TV native resolution 1920x1080

Oh and best of all a Buffy Mouse Mat.

Media Rig
AMD X2 4000+ 64bit
MSI SLI Motherboard with 2x 1gigbit ethernet ports
2 Gig paired Ram 800mhz FSB
Logitec De-Novo wireless Keyboard and mouse set.
Ge-Force 8800GT
D-Link Wireless card (108meg/sec)
Sphere Cam
1 x 86gig Raptor 10'000 RPM
4 x 500mb 7'200RPM HD's
2 x DVD+-RW & Dual Layer drives
1 x 250mb 7'200RPM HD
32 inch Evesham HD television up to 1920x1080
Sound Blaster external USB soundcard. connected by fiber optic to a
panasonic 7.1 digital surround sound system with built in dolby decoder
(all so has Wii and 360 sound throu)
Dual Boot XP pro32bit/XP pro 64bit

thats abooot it.

You, sir, are the winner.

I have to ask though, why are you using AMD, C2s are much better than the AMD chips, the only advantage they have is the on-die memory controller, but that's about to be debunked because the next-gen C2X will have an on-die memory controller.

Processor: Intel Pentium D 2.8GHz
Memory: 1GB
Hard Drive: 160GB
Video Card: ATi Radeon X600 Hypermemory 256MB
Others: Logitech Wireless keyboard/optical mouse setup

I lose.....bigtime!!!!

I choose AMD over Intel hands down, because i play mucho games,
Intel's floating point just doesn't live up to AMD,

eg, equivalent core2 and Amd X2
amd gets 5 to 10 % better actual speed on 3D Mark.

I built my new rig 'top one.Games Rig' with a bonus i got from work,
cost me about £1300 for the system and £800 for the telly.

Really? I know that was the case before Core 2 was released, but since then, every 3D Mark I've seen since is in Intel's favor, sometimes by up to 30% for a similar priced AMD processor

Well that's interesting, Intel finally fixed there float,

prolly not tho,

while it is true that in the current top of the line processor line up the
Intel chips out perform AMD, the sub£100 line up AMD still rule the roost.

AMD 64 X2 6000+ sub £100 (around£85)/ 2x 3.0 Gigahertz.
v's
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 around £170/ 2x3.0 Gigahertz
(actual closes priced intel core 2's are 2.33 and 2.2 gig clock speeds, and the 6000+ 3.0 gig walks alllll over them)

Now it's also true that between these the E6850 out performs the 6000+ on most
like for like benchmark's the 6000+ actually has a higher sustained memory Read/Write speed for larger files. (>6meg), which for games with lots and lots of data to push is excelent.

the intel's performance is down to it's practically 5(4 but 5 thanks to cleaver use of piplines) instructions cycle verses AMD's 2.however, in AMD's new home processor line up the AMD Phenom, due out early 2008, (the ones to directly compete with Intel's core2) have shown real promise in early testing, and unless intel do something drastc, will find AMD strip them of there current high performace heavyweight belt. again

but even so, for half the price i'm taking a less than 5% performance drop for games, now that's good value in anyone's book.

and seen as i can run supreme commander at over 50 FPS and older games like HL2 at over 190fps, do i really need that extra 5%, after all, i can spend the money saved on more games,


and don't for get about the AMD 8 core cn FASN8

Just got a new laptop, a Gateway FX gaming laptop

da specs be

CPU: Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo 1.67GHz
Display: 17" WXGA+ widescreen TFT-LCD with Ultrabright technology (1440 x 900)
RAM: 3GB PC2-5300 DDR2
HDD: 1 250GB SATA @ 5400rpm
Optical Drive: DVDRW/CDRW
Vid Card: 512MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 8800 GTS
Vista Home Premium
And the other usual crap.

Oh, and it only cost me $1300 cause i happened to catch it while it was on sale.

just an update

my graphics are now a Xpertvision 8800GT sonic (factory OC'd 650/1900) and I OC'd it to 700/2000
I'm also running an extra gig of ram (corsair if you care, not ballistix though)
and I'm dual booting Vista Premium x64 and XP Home


ooh, and I finally ditched my CDRW for a SATA DVD-RAM/R9/Lightscribe (£10 from ebay!)