How many of you have a separate gaming rig?

[Beric]

I have an i7 920 gaming rig. I used to game on my Macbook. When I realized how much I liked PC games, I custom-built my i7 rig, which I now game exclusively on. I'm now in the process of getting a PC notebook (HP Envy 14), for additional gaming/movies on the go. The question is whether I'll still need my Macbook after I get it.

 

[apolloa]

It's the exact opposite, unless i'm in a real big gaming mood i'll stay on my mbp.

Now that just sounds daft when you have a rig with the specs like yours, I mean THREE graphics cards!! What makes you stick to the laptop?

Me personally use my PS3, otherwise I only have my MB Pro in my sig, but I've exclusively had an MB Pro for 3 or 4 years now. I have gone through bootcamp to play Crysis and HL2. I got a few PC games but not bothered about them and finished Crysis although I have attempted to try and play it under a virtual window or Crossover Games with no luck. So when Steam was launched, I didn't bother with anything else on my new machine, Steam went straight on as soon as i got it and that will be staying on.
So my MB Pro and Steam and my PS3 plus my PSP and iPhone are MORE then enough of a gaming fix for me.
But with the performance my Mac has and with a commitment from Valve and Apple to make better support and drivers for games performance I think my lil machine will keep me going for a long time.

I could happily and easily build myself a kick ass rig, but I don't want to. I just prefer a laptop for my PC needs these day's rather then multi core, screen, GPU machines with pretty lights.

 

[roliath]

Now that just sounds daft when you have a rig with the specs like yours, I mean THREE graphics cards!! What makes you stick to the laptop?

Me personally use my PS3, otherwise I only have my MB Pro in my sig, but I've exclusively had an MB Pro for 3 or 4 years now. I have gone through bootcamp to play Crysis and HL2. I got a few PC games but not bothered about them and finished Crysis although I have attempted to try and play it under a virtual window or Crossover Games with no luck. So when Steam was launched, I didn't bother with anything else on my new machine, Steam went straight on as soon as i got it and that will be staying on.
So my MB Pro and Steam and my PS3 plus my PSP and iPhone are MORE then enough of a gaming fix for me.
But with the performance my Mac has and with a commitment from Valve and Apple to make better support and drivers for games performance I think my lil machine will keep me going for a long time.

I could happily and easily build myself a kick ass rig, but I don't want to. I just prefer a laptop for my PC needs these day's rather then multi core, screen, GPU machines with pretty lights.

Well before I had my mbp, I used my gaming pc daily.
But with my PS3 (red dead redemption) and my mbp (wow/css/tf2), my gaming rig is left to play the high end games ya know.

I prefer to be on my mbp, because of the following reasons; quiet and no real big extra heat added to the room.

 

[Hydroxs]

I mainly use my desktop with a 5850 for gaming. Able to max out the games that I play and is actually quieter than the mbp when gaming.

 

[voyagerd]

I built a Hackintosh that also is a gaming rig, does that count?

 

[iBookG4user]

I don't have a separate gaming rig, (Don't have the money for one even if I wanted to get one!) so I do all my gaming on my 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro with the 8600M GT in it. I'm not an intense gamer, just a casual one, so I don't mind having to set the graphics a bit lower. The main game that I play has a minimum system requirement of a 700Mhz Process with a graphics card with 32MB of VRAM, so I'm covered there

 

[JackAxe]

I use a separate PC for gaming, currently an i7 920. I also use it for 3D production and rendering another area that still needs some work on the Mac side.

Lots of rambles on this subject, but even though I've tried to get away from PCs for gaming on two occasions since the eighties, I'm at a point I never plan on leaving again.

 

[iCole]

I also have an separate gamepc with Windows 7. I use my iMac for managing my pictures, files, agenda, surfing, and especially time machine. The pc is used for the occasional game. I mostly do my gaming on my consoles, however

I've considered going all the way back to pc (for the sake of just having one computer that can do everything), now that Windows 7 is kinda good, but i always run into enough reasons (slow booting time, less stability, more noise, more stuff too hook up to, ... ) not to do so. I would miss my all-in-one iMac