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Guest Sarah E

As the title says really. I see there are several avid girl gamers here and wondered if any of you had self-built or bought a high end PC or prefer consoles.

I have a 6 month old max spec Alienware 17 and a 3 year old Playstation 3 slim :) The Alienware is a very fast laptop and lets me pretty much any game or piece of software that I want :) It cost a fortune though! lol

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I am primarily a PC gamer, I used to build my own custom rigs. I also used to do extreme overclocking with dry ice, LN2, peltier, etc cooling... I occasionally stumble on my own ancient posts on enthusiast forums and I realize that I was smarter when I was 11 years old than now at 25 with an IT degree, I don't know how that works... I mean if you asked me to make a v-droop mod for a motherboard now I would look at you like all your screws just fell out. I actually found one just the other day on the hardforums when doing some research on memory timings (way beyond the basic CAS Latency info) and found a post from my old screen name that made my head spin. I can definitely still build a mean gaming PC though... but once you step out of the hobby and get into the "good enough" performance category you get complacent and start forgetting the finer details. But dang from about 11-17 I was a master in the then tiny overclocking community. Its one of several hobbies I wish I had the resources to sink my teeth into again, it would be a lot of fun.

But right now I am broke as a joke so I am rocking the company laptop haha! Luckily for a laptop its not too bad but it could be way better.... HP Envy 17, 17" 1080p LED, quad core 4th gen i-7 2.2Ghz, 16GB DDR3 RAM, Hybrid SSD HDD, nVidia GTX 750m (but the crappy ddr3 version not the much faster gddr5 version like in the new macbook pros). Its ok though it gets the job done for now. Last games I played on it were Heart of the Swarm, Crysis 3, and Tombraider... I am about to get the new Thief game though, stoked about that one!!

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Guest Melissa~

I am running a a couple computers, a homebuilt and a modified. My desktop is the homerbuilt, an i5-750 on an ASUS motherboard. It's optimized and running dual 9nvidia800gtx+ cards. The weakest point of the desktop is running old standard hard drives.

My laptop is about three generations newer, a Toshiba A7200. It's been upgraded with a bluray drive and SSD hard drive to get boot time under ten seconds.

This post if from my laptop, as I am currently at my farm.

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Guest Aries

Die Hard PC gamer here. My rig is 2 years old now but I built it myself from parts I ordered from newegg.com. She's a beast with fast HT FSB, AMD 3g, GeForce 465, 16Gigs of High performance RAM. I <3 it (& yes I know that's kinda sad).

I LOVE to play X-com, Left 4 Dead (1st one), and World of Warcraft ... though I have slowed down A LOT on the amount of time I spend gaming compared to a few years ago I still like it. I'm also interested in finding a community (guild) within WoW where I can go & be me with others like me. :)

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Guest LizMarie

Intel Core i5-3470 @3.20GHz

8 GB RAM

Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium

NVidia GeForce GTX 650

I play MMOGs. For the last couple years it has been GW2. Before that Rift, before that WOW for 6 years and EQ for 4 years before that. I've also dabbled in AC, DAOC, AC2, SWG, EQ2, TSW, and TESO but none of them have stuck with me so far. I've got my eye on EQ Next though. A malleable game world changes everything!

:)

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Guest JeepGirl90

my current Rig is as follows... its getting ready for its next upgrade though ....

Xigmatek Elysium Super Tower

Intel i5 760 OC'ed to 3.2ghz

Noctua D14 Heat Sink

eVGA P55 SLi MB

16 Gig GSKILL Ripjaws Memory

(2) eVGA 560GTX's 2 Gig Video Cards

HP S2331a Monitor

Acer x223w Monitor

NZXT Fan Controller

HP dvd1260 DVD Burner

HP dvd1070 DVD Burner

WD 1TB SATA Drive

Logitech G510 Keyboard

Logitech G5 Mouse

I also have the following Consoles:

Xbox 360 Elite w/ 120gig HD

Xbox 360 Elite w/ 60gig HD

Wii (Black)

PS3 80Gig 4 USB

PS2 1st Gen

N64

Sega Genesis 2nd Gen

NES First Gen

Atari 2600 Heavy, 4 Switch, Wood

I play alot of RPGS and sims, Some of my more recent favorite games are Bioshock Infinite, Darkstar One. Mass Effect 1,2 and 3, Fallout 3, The Sims 3, Dead Space, and Command and Conquer.

I am patiently waiting for the release of Star Citizen next year :)

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Guest Megan_Lynn

Wow I guess i am like super sad with my pc. I am still running and ancient old school Pentium 4 dell dimension 4600 2.66 ghz single core 2 gig ram with a Nividia geforce 6200 video card on windows xp... yes old and sad..

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Guest Janice24

I'm love both consoles and PCs. I wish I had a powerful gaming machine, but alas I simply do not have the money or time. Right now I do schoolwork and play on the same laptop: a Toshiba Satellite with an i3 processor and built-in graphics chip. It tends to lag on modern games even on the lowest settings but I don't play a lot of games that require a lot of power so I'm perfectly happy with it.

I've also been playing my 3DS lately. I also have a PS3 but it's been getting used more for Netflix and other apps over actual gaming lately.

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Guest Bug90

I'm a PC gamer my self

I have a 3 year old system I built

I7 3700 ( I think) 3.4g

Gigabyte gaming mobo

6 gig of DDR3 ram

Evga 560ti OC

Western Digital raptor 230 gig

Western Digital green 1.5 t

2 monitors that I have sitting on a 2x 250 wat speaker box

I play a lot of RPGs (skyrim mass effect) fps ( boarderlands bf4) rts (sc2 and cnc) and playing TESO as well

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I am not sure what I have, but it is a Frankenputer running Win XP pro, I could send someone the DXDiag file, if they would like to translate it for me!

PLEASE!

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Guest Ashe_mc

As the title says really. I see there are several avid girl gamers here and wondered if any of you had self-built or bought a high end PC or prefer consoles.

I have a 6 month old max spec Alienware 17 and a 3 year old Playstation 3 slim :) The Alienware is a very fast laptop and lets me pretty much any game or piece of software that I want :) It cost a fortune though! lol

cpu: intel i7-4770k

mobo: asus maximimus VI gene

gpu: 780ti

psu: corsair 860i

ssd: 2tb ssd raid 0 (1tb x 2)

case: silverstone ft03-b

Only reason why I even have this is because i'm fairly certain it was hot product and I got it off of craigslist. I did check the parts and overall build for reports and nothing was reported stolen so finders keepers i guess?

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amd 8350 @ 4.9

sapphire 7970 ghz. toxic ed. (6gb)

32gb ram

usually play 3 screen eyefinity for the very few times i do end up playing. the sapphire cards are nice with alot of extra memory making 3 screen gaming off a single card easy. even current games at max still run decent enough.

32gb of ram for my music software.

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Guest ashleynikole

32gb of ram for my music software.

Is your music software for playing or creating?

I went to school for audio/video production and have used everything under the sun, from ProTools 3.2 (almost 20 yrs ago...yeesh) all the way up to the latest and greatest of Cubase, Audition, Audacity and more. I'm currently using Cubase based on ease of use, price point and functionality. My I/O is a good ol', tried and true, MOTU 2408 that has seen a LOT of wear and tear over the last 13 years. That thing is a workhorse.

God bless

Ashley

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Guest jtgasv

32gb of ram for my music software.

Is your music software for playing or creating?

I went to school for audio/video production and have used everything under the sun, from ProTools 3.2 (almost 20 yrs ago...yeesh) all the way up to the latest and greatest of Cubase, Audition, Audacity and more. I'm currently using Cubase based on ease of use, price point and functionality. My I/O is a good ol', tried and true, MOTU 2408 that has seen a LOT of wear and tear over the last 13 years. That thing is a workhorse.

God bless

Ashley

both. i used to do some composition, but its been a while :( need to get back into it. some recording, and linking to my keyboard.

coworkers of mine couldnt believe how much i put into my computer. which isnt the "best" but, it does what i want it to do... mostly.

till i run out of memory and it starts slowing down cause ive maxed out all 8 cores. =.=

mmmm, when i was composing, i was using sibelius exporting as midi, importing into sonar for effects and to use ewql symphonic orchestra gold. also have garritan cello and violin solo. compliments of an old friend of mine that gifted me his extra product keys.

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Guest jtgasv

used to use it for gaming as well, but i stoped playing video games almost entirely. bout 3 months ago? give or take.

sorry for double post. was going to edit to add other comment but, no edit button. unless im missing something.

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my old desktop was built specifically to play aion back in 2009 (wow so long ago!) so i recently finally managed to replace it, because it was dying aha

i now have an msi dominator gt70 as a desktop replacement:

Processor Name: Intel Core i7-4800MQ Processor Speed: 2.7 GHz Operating System: Windows 8.1 RAM: 16 GB Storage Capacity (as Tested): 1,128 GB Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 880M
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