[quote]damn! - thats one expensive box!
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Er, hmm. Yes, it was. ;D
I hadn’t bought any new hardware in 3-4 years, and I’d been waiting for Doom3 since the day it was announced. I promised to buy myself a new machine to replace my ageing 700MHz Athlon the moment Doom came out - I was intending to get it ordered in the week running up to the Friday release, so I could sit down on Saturday morning, build a PC, and play Doom. Because of work-related hassles, and then problems obtaining hardware, it’s only now that it’s all come together.
But yes, while I didn’t go completely over the top - paying twice as much for a 3800+, paying £100 more for a 6800 Ultra, getting a 19" TFT etc - I did decide that this was my new computer, and it’s likely to be around for a good while yet - why not push the boat out and get a really good one?
(Oh, another criteria was that I wanted to play Doom 3 at 1280x1024 on High Quality and at full frame rate…)