Question about Computers

[McNeo]

I play FL on two different computers, one rubbish, one a year old.

This, I use when I am at home, and it gives me problems whenever there are three or more people in a fight. It cannot keep up, and as a result, I get a frame rate of around 10, like in the Outcast vs Corsair fights.

Rubbish PC:

some silly mini ATX motherboard
Geforce FX 5500 (BIG mistake to buy that)
Irrelevant IDE hard drives (40 GB and 100GB I think)
Pentium IV, stock cooler with spare 80mm fan (broke the first fan with a screwdriver!)
Generic PSU
Generic case with a hidieus facia

I even take my keyboard and mouse home to use on this computer, because the spare ones I have just dont work the way they should anymore...

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This I use at school (Boarding school) and it never gives me any problems with any games, except Supreme commander with 1600+ units and buildings on the battlefield and Crysis, when the koreans/aliens make pretty explosions around me, shortly before I die.
New(er) PC:

Asus P5N32-E SLI (680i nvidia chipset), Full ATX.
Asus 8800 GTX (overclocked slightly last time I checked, stream processors untouched.)
C2D E6600 (overclocked from 2.4 GHz to 3.3 GHz)
Arctic cooling Freezer 7 pro cooler. (cheap as chips, and good too.)
Hitachi 320 GB Hard Drive
Enermax Galaxy 850 Watt (barely fits inside the case)
P180 midi-tower case.
Sound blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer (dont hit me, thats what it says on the box...)

I recently made two purchases (well, one was during christmas break I seem to remember, and the other was two days ago). The first, was a speaker system, which the sub alone weighs about the same as my computer (which is bloody heavy). Its a 5.1 system.

The second purchase was purely because I broke my good mouse by slamming it against the desk after dieing one too many times on CoD 4. The Razer Lachesis, which was hideously expensive for a mouse. but, thats what you have to pay when you buy a mouse with a 4000dpi sensor in it... and various other things...

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Sorry, that was a bit of a rant. But I can't resist telling people/boasting when they start talking about computers. But I am also proud of the timing I bought my good computer, in a year technology still hasn't moved forward that much. Compared to when people (I am sure there were a few caught up) were buying AMD CPUs and ATi GPUs just before Intel released the C2D and Nvidia released the 8800.