On Jun 10, 2008, at 12:27 AM, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
MoBo: Intel® Desktop Board DG35EC CPU: Intel® Core 2 Duo E6750 RAM: 4GB DDR2 Dual Channel 800MHz Video: NVIDIA 8800 GS SLI 384MB HDD: Brand? 300GB SATA II DVD: Phillips DVD RW P/S: 550W Misc: 10 USB, 2 1394a, Realtek 6 channel audio built-in, Intel Gigabit LANHow would you spec out a gamer's dreambox?
I agree that is is mid-range for games. It will run most games out, but not even close to max settings. Whoever was asking about gaming on a pure console watches/reads too many articles about "gamers." Many of the most popular games out today are PC only. To answer Jim's question: it really depends on the game. The game that I work on (which is nearly 5 years old now) was originally designed with the idea that GPUs will get slower and CPUs will get faster, so our core multi-core support and GPU offloading sucks. To play this game you would need lots of RAM / CPU and multi-core and amazing video cards would be less important. For some of the more modern games dual core is still better than quad as they don't take huge advantage of more than 2 cores and a good top-end GPU is important. I just built myself a mid-range gaming machine for under $1400, and it's only slightly better than the spec above.
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