Thanks to anshul89's suggestion, I'm posting my gaming setup!

Well like many others here I'm sure, I've been gaming since I was a toddler and been lovin' every minute of it. I started off playing games on the good old Amiga 500 which is still in a box somewhere in the garage, along with many of the archaic floppy disks that house some of the best games of my nostalgic childhood, including Alien Breed and Jaguar XJ220.

Over the years I went through various systems including the Sega Master System I and II, Sega Megadrive (or Genesis as it's known in the States), NES and SNES. Gaming consumed (and continues to consume) a particularly large portion of my daily life, in which I am happy!

Gaming in the present though has changed an awful lot since the good old days, but not at all in a bad way. Below is what you can call my gaming-life in a way, since this is where I spend my countless hours doing the thing I love most (except a few select activities... ).

These first pics are of my first custom-built PC from 2006. I had played around with computers before and was familiar with changing out hardware and installing components, but this was my first PC build from scratch. A long time overdue if you ask me.

This wasn't a great build so far as cable management goes, but I enjoyed building it.

Specs were:
E6600 - OCd to 3.2Ghz
GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3
2GB G-Skill DDR800
XFX 8800GTX
WD 320GB HDD (7200rpm)
Antec TruPower Trio 550w PSU
Antec P180i case

I later upgraded the machine with the following:

Q6600 OCd to 3.2Ghz
4GB Kingston Value RAM DDR800


Anyway onwards! Next up is my current rig which I initially built last year but upgraded my 2 9800GX2s with 2 GTX295s. Pointless upgrade? Maybe... but why should I care?


My PC with the 2 9800GX2s



My PC with the 2 GTX295s!

Current Specs:
Core2Quad Extreme QX9650 @ 4Ghz
EVGA 780i Mobo
4GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer - DDR1066
2x Palit GTX295 - OC 675/1170
WD 320GB and 2x 500GB HDDs (7200rpm)
Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme CPU Cooler
Thermaltake Toughpower 1200w PSU
7x Antec blue LED fans
Coolermaster Cosmos S Gaming Case
LG Blu-Ray ROM
Logictech G15 Gaming Keyboard
Logitech G9 Gaming Mouse
Razer Mantis Gaming Mousepad
ASUS VW222u and VW224u 22" LCD monitors
Fail Logitech Speakers
Sennheiser PC161 Gaming Headset

Then we have my Samsung 40" HDTV for my XBOX 360 and PlayStation 3 and sometimes PC. I got this baby about 2 years ago and it was one of the best purchases I've made.

My bed is directly infront of my computer desk and my TV is directly in front of my bed, so I can see the TV when I look over my computer monitors and can watch TV while I lie in bed . You can actually see my PS3 in the above picture just above my left monitor.

Well that's my gaming setup for now, I might post more pics as time goes by to spruce things up a bit! Now back to playing games!!!!

So this is just me saying that I might actually start using this thing called a "blog". It's scary stuff and I haven't done it before on other forums until now. I might even consider updating it, that's right, updating it as things change in my little gaming-life.

For those who don't know, my name is Ray, I live in Melbourne Australia and I spend far too much time (wait, you can't have too much, I take that back) playing games and enjoying all of the wonderful things technology has to offer.

So, as I gradually get off my ass and start using the GS functionality a bit more, I might actually have something worth showing in my blog.

Happy hunting in the meantime!