Is your computer a gaming computer?

[agentmanningctu]

Mine is just a plain Dell Dimension with an added ATI graphics card.  So not a gaming computer.  My next computer will be built for gaming though.

[Alex Vidakovic]

If you got ATI then you can definitely play Invader Attack and all the future games I'll be making. So what do you consider yourself to be, a casual or non-casual player?

[CaptainD]

Yes I got a Packard Bell iPower X9810 - after years of buying middle-of-the-range PCs, I realised that it was false economy - a good gaming PC is pretty much better at everything else you might want to use your computer for too.  It cost me more but it will last a lot longer before I want to upgrade / replace it. 

[Alex Vidakovic]

I got two of Chinese, can't find the markings and signs, there might not be any. Celeron is having an old nVidia graphic card, games run very smoothly on it under XP, stutter a lot under Vista, Invader Attack is working silky smoothly under XP. The other computer is a normal and genuine Intel, but the rest of the components are Chinese. I know this because I opened it while changing the sound card. It had integrated sound card originally, but I've switched it off and inserted the better one. Mother board, memory, hard drive, its all Chinese. Both of those PCs, although mostly Chinese and cheap, work perfectly.

In Serbia, all the "branded" configurations, apart from being very rare, are, at least, two times more expensive. All you need for gaming is a decent graphic card.

[Alex Vidakovic]

On my older computer with slow Celeron, the nVidia graphic card is worth more than other components altogether. The games work great including 3D, not the latest games, but that future pinball works great, my games work silky smooth, NFS Most Wanted works great. The computer is very old and nVidia card is some 8-9 years old, still super, they're releasing drivers, improvements. Really, all you need is a decent graphic card to play games on a PC.

[a salmon]

I used to have really good computer but it broke when it fell. I often like to return from work and do nothing on the evenings so I can save up my wages to buy good computers.