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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 3400101" data-attributes="member: 4779">TB - I do some PC gaming.  It is too powerful for what I do now, but possibly not what I'll be playing a year or so from now.  Civ IV certainly benefited from me having a pretty good system at the time.  And I have been not buying a few other games because my old rig was so unstable. It wasn't bad at all (256MB videocard, 1GB RAM, P4 3.2ghz) but it still chugged at times when I had a bunch of programs open.  And rather than try and fix it myself (again!) I figured that I use it enough to get something a bit better than I normally build.Aside from that, I do freelance graphic design work (using mostly Adobe progs).  I haven't taken active work for about 4 years.  As of about a month ago, I'm going to take a few jobs and work with a programmer friend of mine and see where it goes.  That and I know I'll want a new videocam soon and will want to do some editing.  This machine should have me covered for at least the length of the extended warranty and then some without *having* to upgrade.  I've spend so much over the years replacing dead hardware, upgrading the machine that I just snapped.I guess the bottom line is that I want it to do whatever I want, when I want and not have to even think of upgrades for years down the line.</blockquote>