Just a general place to talk about different Tech Specs of Gaming / Work Machines.
What gaming machines do you have and what specs!
My Personal Machine:
Intel Core i7-8700K
RTX 3090
128GB DDR4 Ram
2TB M.2 SSD (OS & Apps)
1TB SATA SSD (Steam Library)
4TB HDD (General Storage)
Blu-Ray Drive
I usually use an Apple MacStudio M1 Max to game (the games I like are on Mac).
If I need Windows for gaming, I’ll use:
Intel Core i5-13600K
NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB (I needed a tiny GPU, and its a rough 3060 equivalent).
56GB DDR4 RAM (Randomly 56GB as I had some spare I threw in from 32GB)
30GB Boot Flash (Unraid OS)
2TB M.2 SSD (Windows OS & Gaming)
22TB HDD (Media/File Server)
AMD Ryzen 7
32GB RAM
Gigabyte RTX 2070 Super
Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD
Favourite ever hardware: Stadia controller (white) & Chromecast Ultra (home), Stadia controller (blue) & Chrome on laptop or phone (travelling) - unbeatable minimalist power-gaming experience anywhere.
Current mobile hardware: i5 laptop running either keyboard/mouse for local games or Stadia controller (Bluetooth enabled) with Xbox Cloud Gaming on Edge.
Current stuck-at-home hardware: Xbox Series S & Xbox One S ( 
coz Minecraft…)
I tend to steer clear of PC-builds now. Been there, done that & paid for it dearly. But I do admire the efforts of meticulous internal wiring runs, elegant RGB lighting (difficult to pull off) and liquid cooling solutions.
Attitude to gaming then: buy, buy, buy, speed, speed, speed
Attitude to gaming now: KISS 
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X Zen 4 CPU
Samsung 980 PRO 1TB SSD
Seagate IronWolf Pro 4TB NAS Hard Drive
AMD Motherboard
Kingston FURY Beast 32GB (2x 16GB) 6000MHz DDR5
GeForce RTX 4080
Corsair ICUE H150i Elite Capellix 360mm Liquid CPU Cooler
Bit of a monster, almost a year old now, was a fun day unlocking that Monzo Pot to splurge on that after 5 years of saving!
I had to get rid of my iCue H150i and put on the stock cpu cooler as it just randomly stopped working after about 18 months.
Same.
I used to be all in. Building custom gaming rigs from scratch etc. But then ‘life’ happened and now I don’t have anywhere near that amount of time.
So, currently:
Work - Dell laptop 
(Used to be mac, loved it, but also used to be Thinkpad, love them)
Home - Xbox One S which when it’s not being used as the TV, I get to go on. Mostly Flight sim these days.
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
GTX 1080Ti
32GB DDR4 RAM
MSI MAG B550 MOBO
It could do with a new graphics card at some point, but I game a lot less now and the 1080 is doing me fine for what I do and I have other things to spend money on.
I had a look for a friend about a year ago who wanted a new PC and the issue was that pre-built was really quite a bit more expensive. He was looking at a £1500 system, we built a slightly better system for £1000. Plus we built the computer in about 2 hours.
I’d go pre-built if it was £100 more or so, but seems to always be a lot more than that and I’m never sure why or if I’m just looking in the wrong places.
Definitely, things like the case and fans last a very long time, probably minimum 15 years. My PSU is 10 years old and going strong, and hard drives are pretty transferrable too. You don’t have to replace the whole thing every upgrade and you can save a lot of money incrementally increasing components and using each one to its maximum lifespan.
gateway 2000 386sx
2mb ram
40gb hard drive
but it came in a lovely cow coloured cardboard box!
Can it run crysis?
