Thinking about it, whats a good middle range spec pc to be running. I dont think we have many early adopters here, so what are you all running? My latest pc is:

AMD sempron 64bit 754 1.8@2.6
1 gig 3200 memory
Geforce 6600gt
2x80 gig raid sata hd striped (for her pleasure)

Plays Tomb Raider Legend reasonably ok, no fancy lighting though. What would be a good game to bench against? CS:S?
is a cool utility for giving fps in corner of screen.

i think i get the fps on screen via my omega drivers.

Id bench on CSS for multiplayer games and HL2 for single's, but thats as i play them most often.

AMD 64 FX53
GeForce 6800 Ultra
2 Gig Ram
1x200gig & 1x120gig Sata Drives

KJ, what sort of frame rates you get with that?

P4 3.0 HT Northwood
1 Gig 3200 (single channel )
Geforce Fx5900 AGP
2x120gig HD + 30gig HD (all IDE)

Not upgraded my pc at all in 18 months due to lack of funds

Tried to install GR:AW and it's below min spec for the graphics card

PC 1
AMD 64bit 3200
1GB RAM
Leadtek NVidia 6800 128Mb Gfx (AGP)

Plays HL2 with most setting at med-high, for CS:S needs be reined in a bit for newer maps. Frame-rate often 100+, sometimes dips to around 50fps but generally handles most things thrown at it.


PC2
AMD 64bit 3800 dual-core
2 GB RAM
Gainward Nvidia 7800GT 512Mb "Goes like hell" (PCI-E)

Does everything

(but sadly was Mrs W's birthday present so she kicks me if I get within 10 feet of it )

PC1
Intel P4 dual 3.0
Nvidia 7800GTX
2GB DDR2

PC 2
Intel P4 2.8
ATI 9700pro
1GB

Laptop
Intal centreno 1.7
ATI 9700 mobile
512MB

Are all the 7xxx series graphics cards here on pci-e? Seems a shame that AGP appears to have been dropped like a hot potato. Seen a review of the fastest AGP gfx card in a mag over the weekend, it was well expensive compared to its pic-e equivalent.

You can still get the 6800GS (basically the same as a GT) in AGP along
with, I believe, 2 of the 7x00 cards.

Strange that they dropped AGP so quickly though considering 90%+ of
people will still be using AGP motherboards.

As for specs:

AMD Athlon64 3200+ (Winchester)
2GB Corsair PC3200 RAM (4 x 512MB)
2 x 80GB Seagate HDD
MSI 6800GT 256MB (AGP)
Creative Audigy 2 ZS

Holding off before making my next upgrade. Partly because I'm saving to
buy a house and partly because I want to see how the new AM2 CPUs pan
out compared to Intel's Conroe CPUs.

2 x AMD 270 dual core Opteron's
4 GB RAM
2 x 7800GTX in SLI mode

'ave it

making up for his small penis

Intel P4 2.8 HT OCed to 3.36MHz.
2GB of RAM in dual mode.
Gainward Geforce 6800GT Golden Sample running at Ultra settings.
2x hard drives 300GB total space.

AMD Athlon64 3200+ (Venice)
1GB PC3200 RAM (2 X 512MB)
1 X 40GB and 1 X 160GB HDDs
nVidia 6600GT 256MB PCI-E
Not sure about the sound card, just some cheap 5.1 compatible one.

My FPS ranges from 50 to 130ish.

tbh Jamie i dont know!
i run HL2, well every game actually with everything set at max.
on CS:S (The only game that i have the fps showing) i get a minimum of 50, going up to 200 at times.