Coming late to the game

[Steeltrap]

Originally Posted by kylania

Find a PC you can just barely afford, then get an upgrade from that instead. Buy a PC that'll run software you didn't even know you need to run yet, otherwise you'll be buying PCs more often than Software.

A person after my own heart!!

I, too, have only just got a rig able to run SHIII. Also hanginig out for Medieval Total War II. I've tried to "future proof" it for some years to come.

Here's what I just did in accordance with that principle:

Systemboard
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe M/B, Asus - AM2 - NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI Technology, AMD Live!™ Ready, 4 DDR2 800/667/533 (8Gb Max),2 x SLI PCI-E x16, 1 x PCI E x4,1 x PCI E x1, 2 x PCI Slots, SATA II RAID, Firewire 1394, 8 Channel Audio, Dual Gigabit LAN, USB 2, eSATAII, ATX
Processor
AMD® Athlon™ 64 FX-62 (2.8GHz) Dual Core Processor, Socket AM2 - 2 x 1Gb L2 Cache
Case
Quiet Black Antec TITAN Tower Case, Quiet CM 600W EPS/SLI Power Supply, (4) 5.25", (6) 3.5" Hidden, Front USB / Firewire Ports, Front Door, Dimensions:44.6cm (H) x 58.4cm (D) x 20.6cm(W)
Memory
2Gb DDR2 PC5300 at 667Mhz (2 x 1GB)
Video
1 x ATI Radeon® X1950 XTX, 512Mb, GDDR4
Monitor
Samsung 204B 20.1" LCD, Silver or Black - 1600 x 1200, 5ms
Hard Drive
WD Raptor Series 74Gb Serial ATA-150, 10000RPM, 16Mb
DVD
Sony 16x Dual Layer 16x DVD+/-RW Recorder & Nero Software
Sound
Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Platinum