My computer is a slow, old piece of shit.

dude there aren't even computers that ARE 18k and WHO WOULD SPEND THAT MUCH, GEEZ, the like MOST expensive computer and BEST is like 5000
and i would considered uncapped's computer a high high machine

Athlon 1800+ 1.53ghz. 512 MB Ram. 80gigs. dvd player. 52x burner. Audigy platinum 1 sound board. Radeon 9600xt. It gets the job done and I havent had a problem with any games yet.

I'm upping as soon as PCI Express motherboards come out, but there's no point getting a new card until then, in my opinion.