I have been looking at putting together a new PC finally. My old and current PC was purchased in May of 2001. Thats almost 5 years old and this computer is still kicking. It crashed more when it was new. Somehow I have given it what it needs to continue its life and it wont die. I still keep looking at new parts, trying to piece together a new pc with all the new (but not cutting edge) technology. PCI- Express, RAID SATA drives with 10k rpm, multiple gigs of ram, high end video cards… but, my old pc still keeps going. It is crippled by most games out now, but it still allows for them to be played. For example, the Battlefield 2 demo works pretty well, HalfLife 2 works, and counterstrike source works and looks better than the original counterstrike. Another reason I have not bought new yet is that I have way less time to play games than I used to. I used to somehow play 3-4 hours or more a night of CS, and even more on weekends… now I would be lucky to play just 1 hour during a weeknight.
I really want to play a smooth version of Battlefield 2 at home, but I have to somehow kill my old pc. Why wont it die?
For a related opinion talking about Battlefield 2 and the woes of needing super expensive high end equipment to play it, read this article at maximumpc.com
Bom helped (actually he did most of the work and ideas for buying I just had the money) me build my computer. For the amount of things that are in it and the performance I have gotten out of it, I love my computer. I paid all total around $1150.39 and if I had gotten it from DELL or Alienware it probably would have been double. So ask I say just build a new one and drop the other out the window.
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