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Recently, I decided that my old computer – which has done sterling service to me for the past 2-3 years – was finally due replacement. Now I don’t keep up with the hardware that one should buy so it will always be a struggle to choose the right hardware for the job in hand.
Everyone has an opinion on what is good versus bad. Asking my clan mates is helpful and confusing all at the same time. What I did in the end was make some technology choices (e.g. Intel versus AMD, ATI versus NVidia). Once that was done, I needed company to build me one.
I tried Alienware but after building my ultimate PC there, I would have been 8,000 euros lighter in my pocket which I felt was not completely necessary! Dell is also too expensive but at least they make nice looking computers.
In the end I got one from Komplett. They have a Dell like configuration application where I can tweak a base system. In the end I got to a computer with: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.67, 4 GB Memory, 2x GTX260′s (SLI) and Windows Vista 64 bit. Vista is very nice but I think it sometimes is a bit too slow. I guess that is the OS more than the PC as this should run pretty much anything quickly.
Gaming is good Call of Duty 4 looks awesome, although I find the soft focus sometimes annoying when there are blades of grass in the way (or at least, that the game thinks are in the way). Company of Heroes runs fine, it is not more detailed than on my old machine but at least the patch will install now so that means I can play online with the clan. I am not waiting to start playing Warhammer. I need a bit of an introduction to playing MMORPG’s and I am also waiting the release of Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway.
View of the case and contents. Lots of wires and stuff…
The long shot including screen and mouse (blue mouse is from something else)
