What is the ULTIMATE gaming computer?

I have this and I love it. Never had a single issue with it and it is going on 3 years old. I am not a gamer though so things like dot pitch and max reolution don't concern me but I liked the monitor and it was recommended by a couple of my friends so I bought it.

If you want the ultimate gaming product i suggest u make one, with these parts

Sony Floppy Drive 3,5 1,44mb black floppy drive internal


EPoX EP 9NPAJ nFroce4 Socket939 ATX, 4xSATA/ATA, GbLAN, DDR, PCI-Ex16

Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 160gb Sata2 8mb 7200RPM NCQ


TwinMOS PC3200 DDR-DIMM 512MB CL2.5 Memory 184-P (for PC400MHZ)

AM Athlon 64 FX-55 2.6Ghz Socket 939, 1MB, Boxed w/fan


Club3D Radeon X850XT PE 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express, Dual DVI, VGA, Tv-Out, Retail


Cooler Master Cavalier3 Black (without PSU)



Antec NEO480 GB 480 Watt PSU

Pioneer DVDRW Dual Layer DVR 109/B black OEM
Think i've covered it all there

BTW, with this setup, you have the FASTEST CPU AND VIDEOCARD for gaming, PERIOD

The FX-57 is clocked at 2.8Ghz compared to the FX-55's 2.6Ghz.

Also, the Western Digital Raptor would be better as a primary drive as it has faster access times.

The GeForce 7 Series would also be better than the X850.

I find it strange that for a "gaming" PC, people are recommending HUGE hard drives. If all your using it for is gaming then why not go with a smaller faster hard drive such as the raptor or a scsi.

Some game sizes are getting out of control.

Personally I would not go with a raptor until WD makes the second generation one available. Second, when they replace a defective drive now, they give you a refurbished part. That's BS. I absolutely REFUSE to allow any refurbish or sub-par parts into my system.
I pay a lot of money and I will only give my business to companies that respect me and my systems. I had to replace a hitachi drive and they *asked* me first if it was okay that they give me a refurbished drive and I said, "Absolutely not, I prefer a brand new oem drive." They had no problem and sent me the drive, brand spanking new.
If I bought a refurbished drive and it broke under wrranty, sure give me a refurbished drive. But when I pay for brand new and your company is at fault when it fails, I expect a brand new drive. Wasn't my fault that it failed, I shouldn't get any less than what I paid for.

A smaller drive for gaming is indeed the best idea. I am building a rig and tweaking it for gaming right now and I tell you it is a great way to learn. 2 gig ram, 40 gig HD, PCI express (dual preferred) and a fast CPU are "must haves" and if you can, through a decent sound card into the mix!

I agree that game sizes are getting quite big but it still doesn't call for a 200GB hard drive. When I did play PC games I would have one maybe two installed at a time. Once I was done with the game I uninstalled it.

I use my machine for more than just games, besides when I do finally get some 10k rpm drives they will be smaller.

Can't say I go for big HDD's. Prefer small capacity drives myself but thats also because I dont do alot of gaming so therefore don't require large amounts of space.

I only have a 250Gb Hdd. I have 54% free space on it. If I get less than 30% free space then I'll try to actively delete stuff I don't need. If that doesn't work I'll just get a second 250Gb.

Hey guys what Do you think will be the sbest gaming hardware coming out in the near future around february next year maybe?? I have heard of a new socket for AMD the M2 and also The dual core graphics card will go into production I think

Anyways let us know your facts about that

Thanks Adam

Asus has a dual core 7800GTX vid card comming out.

Amd has the socket M2 and maybe 4-core cpu's there was even talk about a dual-core FX series for the M2.

Gigabyte already has a dual core card, someone posted about it here somewhere.

Yeah it was a Dual 6600 and didn't perform that great. A single 6800 beat it out.

Asus was going to go for a dual 6800 but then scratched it for a dual 7800GTX.

Cant wait for that....... will kick ass on BF2 especially with the nex expansion pack coming out soon

and anyone got any reviews of these dual core graphics cards and maybe the quad CPU's??

Adam