Posted by Kromey at 5:03pm Nov 5 '12And I've forgotten the specifics long ago, but here goes:
4GB RAM
250GB HDD (x3)
Some flavor of Athlon dual-core processor in the 2.something GHz range
Some now-low-end NVIDIA GeForce card with a mere 256MB RAM I think (512 was near-top-of-the-line at the time; the 1GB cards were just coming out and horrendously over-priced)
The gaming rig has some sort of BIOS and/or video card issue where I end up having to hit the reset button as many as 10 times before the thing will actually properly initialize and boot up, and even then Windows will more often than not lock up on the "Starting Windows" screen and require another hard reset (again requiring multiple resets to get BIOS and/or video card to initialize and start up). So I'll be migrating my Windows install to my Linux VM rig and dual-booting; those specs are more impressive:
8GB RAM
Over 1.5TB hard drive space (albeit unusable in Windows because it's Linux software RAID; I'll likely just install a spare 500GB HDD I have lying around and put a fresh Windows 7 install on that, half a gig for Windows should be fine)
AMD Phenom 9850 quad-core CPU @ 1.25 GHz
Brand new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 video card with 1GB GDDR5 (got it cheap on sale on Newegg)
Still nothing massively top-of-the-line, but it works plenty good for the games I play (L4D2, XCOM, Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress, Civ V...).
4GB RAM
250GB HDD (x3)
Some flavor of Athlon dual-core processor in the 2.something GHz range
Some now-low-end NVIDIA GeForce card with a mere 256MB RAM I think (512 was near-top-of-the-line at the time; the 1GB cards were just coming out and horrendously over-priced)
The gaming rig has some sort of BIOS and/or video card issue where I end up having to hit the reset button as many as 10 times before the thing will actually properly initialize and boot up, and even then Windows will more often than not lock up on the "Starting Windows" screen and require another hard reset (again requiring multiple resets to get BIOS and/or video card to initialize and start up). So I'll be migrating my Windows install to my Linux VM rig and dual-booting; those specs are more impressive:
8GB RAM
Over 1.5TB hard drive space (albeit unusable in Windows because it's Linux software RAID; I'll likely just install a spare 500GB HDD I have lying around and put a fresh Windows 7 install on that, half a gig for Windows should be fine)
AMD Phenom 9850 quad-core CPU @ 1.25 GHz
Brand new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 video card with 1GB GDDR5 (got it cheap on sale on Newegg)
Still nothing massively top-of-the-line, but it works plenty good for the games I play (L4D2, XCOM, Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress, Civ V...).
Nothing too fancy - Kromey