darxus | (no subject)

[Poll #639434]

Current plans for the $1400 machine: http://www.chaosreigns.com/dancer/ ($1467 with an x2 3800+)

My home computer, dancer, cooked itself to death over the summer. I built dancer in 2001, and upgraded its video card to the latest and greatest in 2002. So perhaps I was due for an upgrade anyway.

I have been terribly indecisive. While being too frustrated to deal with the problem for months, I have beem using

nchanter's old busted laptop which requires me to sit in terribly uncomfortable positions in order to keep the (nolonger attached) display upright.

Finally I've started to seriously research the possibility of building a new machine (my third, the first was oblivion). I remain indecisive. Honestly the only thing I've missed lately is a comfortable sitting position and an entirely functional keyboard. But I can totally afford an up to date gaming machine. I've enjoyed these games some in the past. Would my life be better having them back? The latest FPS, F.E.A.R., looks amusing.

And again, I can afford it. Hell, computers are my living, should I not have nice hardware at home? But do I need it? Is it worth $1400 to me?

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I'd go with the high end system. $1400 isn't all that bad to spend on a nice little pee cee...

I never sit at my desk so my PC never gets used. I'm always on the laptop.
I was thinking aboot setting up a Media Center PC for myself with a pretty descent video card, so I can play on my projector.

Yeah one of the things I failed to mention is that I'm hoping to use it as a dvd player etc.. The reason I didn't with my old machine is it was too loud. I have the long DVI cable, just need to get the coax spdif to hook it to my reciever.

FPSes on an 8 foot screen hooked up to a surround sound sterio are... silly. With UT2004 you can set the aspect ratio correctly in the config file.