inside my babys rocking
procceser: 3.1Ghtz duel core AMD Athlon
ram: 4gigs DDR2 (2 sticks OCZ platinum, 1 stick Micron Technology) (4 more gigs in the mail, replacing the micron tech stick)
video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 (905Mhtz core 512mb ram )
mother board : Gigabyte Technology - GA-MA790GP-UD4H
hard drive: seagate ST3250310AS (sata 250. GB) + HP External (usb 350 GB)
disk drive: LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1S (sata, lightscribe)
power supply: ultra lsp550 550W
networking: Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC, wireless N+
cpu cooling: Thermaltake Blue Orb 2 (2 lb of heat dispercing copper and aluminum, 140 fins)
case cooling: 6 fans (3 80mm blue led, 1 120mm blue led, the power supply fan, and the blue orb 2 )
opperation system: windows xp home ed. sp3

outside

the tower is a sunbeam transformer and it weighs 30 lb empty and is made of steel
five blue led fans light up the interior and look just stuning in a dark room
and there is also a very bright, very green cold cathode on the front

my monitor is a 23" LG high deffenition 50,000:1 ratio monster
running at 1080p@60Htz, 1920 x 1080 resolution

my keyboard is a G11 gameing keyboard by logitech that glows blue as well, very nice 18 macro keys and 3 modes and a profile for every game = 54 macros per game

my new mouse is in the mail as well the razor Naga mmo gaming mouse, 5600dpi and 17 buttons of greatness.

I have a 5.1 85W suround sound system
which is a downgrade from my old 18 speaker 4 subwoofer 450W system
but I moved into an apartment and they didnt like the noise

tell me whatcha think of my rig, where should i upgrade next? i am thinking razor headset? oh and 3.1Ghtz is OCed (2.7Ghtz originally) the 250 gts is OCed as well from 751

You don't tell the cpu exact model, anyway the cpu and gpu are the ones you should upgrade first. Maybe psu also if you value your components. 

AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+ is the cpu model. I am content with a dual core 3.1Ghtz for now. as for the gpu I don't have $300-$400 to spend on the extra 100-300mhtz 512mb. My psu should do me fine for at least another year, my recommended wattage for my current components 349W and only 419W with 100% TDP, 100% load, 30% cap aging.

That's a descent overclock for a 5000+.  I was able to get my BE on another board to 3.4ghz, but it wasn't stable in all weather conditions so I dropped it down to 3.2ghz.

Thats my setup

BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Memory: 6142MB RAM

Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

hmm very nice rig :) tho im sure you were also told like i was.. XP doesnt offically support 4+gb of ram ... only vista... does  kind of gay but owell..

still a very nice system.  im sure you get your enjoyment out of it too :)

Originally posted by Ichmen

hmm very nice rig :) tho im sure you were also told like i was.. XP doesnt offically support 4+gb of ram ... only vista... does  kind of gay but owell..

still a very nice system.  im sure you get your enjoyment out of it too :)

Nothing to do with xp, it's 32-bit OS what makes the limitation. Any 32-bit windows can't allocate more than 4 gigs, from which part is reserved to hardware addresses etc. Basically depending on your system you end up having ~3 gigs of ram.
 

Originally posted by mytruehate

AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+ is the cpu model. I am content with a dual core 3.1Ghtz for now. as for the gpu I don't have $300-$400 to spend on the extra 100-300mhtz 512mb. My psu should do me fine for at least another year, my recommended wattage for my current components 349W and only 419W with 100% TDP, 100% load, 30% cap aging.

It's not about wattage really, the brand just implicates to some cheap oem quality.
 

If your mobo support Phenom II cpus, they would bring very noticeable performance boost.

Gpu is still fine for most games if you don't use maximum settings, low vram amount limits AA/AF usage performance with that resolution.

OP...I think you should spend the money and get Win7 64bit and really get your full use outta that PC! You get DX11 and it really makes your games look noticably better.

Originally posted by talismen351

OP...I think you should spend the money and get Win7 64bit and really get your full use outta that PC! You get DX11 and it really makes your games look noticably better.

Only on dx11 games, there isn't quite many of these yet.
 

Originally posted by dfan

Originally posted by talismen351

OP...I think you should spend the money and get Win7 64bit and really get your full use outta that PC! You get DX11 and it really makes your games look noticably better.

Only on dx11 games, there isn't quite many of these yet.
 

He wont get DX11 directly... as he as a DX10 videocard

Also, more and more games are being recommended to use Quad Core, (GTA 4 was one of the first i think) i had an AMD 5600+ and a HD4870 1gb back then, and GTA 4 was pretty heavy, the CPU's load was on 99% and the Frames were pumping down heavily, i then bought an Intel Core i7 920 and everything went ALOT smoother, including in other games.

Your videocard is decent, but i dont know if you're a person that wants everything maxed out, if you are a person like that then you also need a better videocard.

I am not looking for maxed out top of the line stuff. I do  spend a lot of time surfing around looking for deals on upgrades. but i couldn't seem to think of anything else i could look for to enhance my game play without maxing my card. maybe windows 7 isn' t a bad idea. i was just posting to see what others thought of my rig and to get an idea of what was lacking. my computer is as much about performance as it is art at least for me.

Here's mine

3.7GHZ amd quad core 940 X2 BE
HD 5870 stock clock speed
900 watt psu
MSI-K9A2 Platinum 790FX Motherboard
4GB of crucial 1066 RAM
3 TB's of Sata Storage Space (2 internal + 1 external for backup)
160 + 60 Apex OCZ SSD Drives running in RAID0
N52te + G11 + MX518
Blueray/Lightscribe Burner

26" LCD and 22" LCD

I keep everything cool with zalman aftermarket fans, my CPU overclocked by 700MHZ(1.47V) runs at 44*C under full load :D

I currently have vista x64 but my copy of W7x64 pro should be here thursday or friday :D :D :D

You should either go with a new video card or a new processor, you will definitely notice the difference for either of those purchases.

Originally posted by mytruehate

I am not looking for maxed out top of the line stuff. I do  spend a lot of time surfing around looking for deals on upgrades. but i couldn't seem to think of anything else i could look for to enhance my game play without maxing my card. maybe windows 7 isn' t a bad idea. i was just posting to see what others thought of my rig and to get an idea of what was lacking. my computer is as much about performance as it is art at least for me.

Yea windows 7 would be a huge upgrade if you are currently running vista. I can't wait to receive my copy

instead of a better, faster, stronger, and costlier graphics card what if i ordered a 2nd gts 250? i do have the extra 2x3 hanging off my psu and an empty pci-e slot...  just thinking out loud here that i could get more bang for my buck and keep a nice card from rotting away in an anti-static bag on a shelf. input?

edit:

I am running windows xp home 32 bit. I have used vista and im just more comfortable with xp. its what i grew up on, what im comfy with. but if its holding me back guess im going to be getting friendly with 7. which i did try the beta for and i didn't think it was all that bad.

Don't get another card, one single faster card is always better than 2 slower ones. With your resolution a card with 1 gig memory is almost a must. OS change doesn't bring improvements to game performance but can be much better on other usage. 

Wait we are now gloating about our systems.  Here is mine.  It looks alot like beowolfs.

Tower
*Thermaltake XaserVI Full Tower Case
-Mobo: MSI K9A2 Platinum AM2+
-CPU: AMD Phenom II 940 w/Thermaltake MiniTyphone Cooler
-GPU: Diamond AMD HD3870
-PSU: ABS Tagan BZ Series Piperock 800w
-Disk Drives:
>Western Digital 500GB Caviar Black- Primary Partition
>Western Digital 250GB Caviar Blue- Storage Drive
>Western Digital 250GB Caviar Blue- Storage Backup
>LG DVD-RW SATA Optical Drive
-Sound Card: HT Omega Striker 7.1
-Memory: 4-2GB OCZ Gold DDR2 800mhz
>Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

Monitor
*LG 22" 10k:1 contrast ratio 2MS Response Time

Speakers
*Behringer Personal Monitor Speakers - Stereo
*TekNMotion Pulsewave Headset

Printer
*Brother DCP-585CW Scanner/Printer 40k DPI

Input Devices
*Saitek Eclipse II Keyboard
*Logitech G5 Mouse
*SteelSeries Glass Mousepad
*Belkin N52te Gamepad
*Adesso M14 Cybertablet
*Logitech Rumblepad
*Saitek Joystick

Guess what I do.