New PC: What, Where, How Much?

[MD_Wild_Weasel]

sounds good if you have money to play for a gpu like that. What we talking of for the latest Nvidia flagship card? £500? my wife would cut my balls off.

[Fangio]

Hmmmmmm


I can see the advantages of waiting if radical new tech is going to be released soon....


Then again, nobody knows what "soon" means and nobody knows for how much $$$$.

My system now cannot run the game at all. So waiting means waiting to play period.

Dang, now I have more questions rather than less.




Fang

[kimosabi]

Where do you hail from, Fangio?

If you need something pre-assembled there's plenty of places they do that but we need to know your country.

As for the waiting game, yes you probably could do that as well, but I take it you're not a hardcore enthusiast that absolutely need to have the latest socket? Now is a good time to buy if you're in desperate need of "quality time". Bulldozer will probably be on par with Sandy Bridge(the newest intel socket) for a little less money(amd is traditionally cheaper than Intel) and I don't think Bulldozer a whole lot faster.

*edit* Ok I saw the $. YankLand it is.

*edit again* Here's something I whipped up for ya. I picked a full tower because they are much much easier to work with and you get some breathing room. The HAF X is a top notch steel case. Great airflow.

http://secure.newegg.com/Shopping/Sh...px?Submit=view

Total $2,227.65

You won't find a pre-assembled with those specs any cheaper.

[Fangio]

Kimosabe...... yes, good ol' USA. I live north of Atlanta in Georgia. The Deep South. We have some pretty serious issues with being called Yank or Yankee around these parts. Goes back to a little fracas in the early 1860s involving Yankees and the burning down of cities in these parts.


Booterboy...

I would be very interested in the specs you chose and details / photos on your build! Please post!


Fang

[kimosabi]

I retract the Yank then. Sorry about that. There's still a bit of North vs South going on over there I see.

[Fangio]

Originally Posted by Oldschool61

Just with the knuckle draggin conservative racist southerners who still think slavery is a way of life!!

First off.... my comment about the term "Yankee" and being a southerner was tongue in cheek. Humor in case that goes over your head.

Secondly.... while Slavery was the primary motivator behind the Southern States choosing to secede from the Union, it was not the cause for which Southern soldier fought. The war was fought over whether or not Americans had the right to self determination that they exerted in 1776. Had you wandered around among the campfires in the Army of Northern Virginia in 1862 - 1865 and asked the soldiers why they were fighting you would have gotten many responses and reasons. I seriously doubt any would have mentioned slavery at all.

But hey, we all know how you liberal racist elitist's do not think people have the right to choose their own form of Govt. because YOU know better what is best for them and folks should just hand YOU all of the power because only YOU can effectively rule.

Your assumptions are correct in one way only: Liberals make me sick to my stomach.


Now... back to flying and Cliffs of Dover.




Fang

[kimosabi]

Since we're all on humorizing eachother I re-enable my Yank. lol

Are you going to build yourself, Fangio? Unless you have ten thumbs and all placed in the centre of your palm, setting up a rig really isn't too hard.

[Robert]

Originally Posted by MD_Wild_Weasel

sounds good if you have money to play for a gpu like that. What we talking of for the latest Nvidia flagship card? £500? my wife would cut my balls off.

I'd go for the $450 version of a video card and spend the other $50 on a comfy chair pillow to sit on while you play CoD.

[snpshot]

Try Cyberpower pc...use newegg to study the components you want to put in. I usually read most of the reviews before I buy anything. I bought a Gigabyte 890 board, amd 965 processor, 8 gb ripjaw pc 1333 ram, and a corsair 750 psu for my initial setup. The next step is the GPU, either a nvidia gtx 460 or hopefully a gtx 560 with 2 gb ram.

[Fangio]

Ok, I took some advice from here and other places and ordered a new system from ibuypower.com


NZXT Phantom Full Tower Gaming Case - White
Intel® Core™ i7 960 Processor (4x 3.20GHz/8MB L3 Cache)
[6-Port] NZXT Internal USB Expansion System + Bluetooth Module
12 GB [2 GB X6] DDR3-1600 - Corsair or Major Brand
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 - 3GB - Single Card
[3-Way SLI] ASUS Rampage III Extreme w/ 4x PCI-E 2.0 x16
1000 Watt -- Extreme Gaming Series
120 GB Intel X25-M MLC SSD - Single Drive
1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 64M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive
[10X Blu-Ray] LG BLU-RAY Reader, DVD±R/±RW Burner Combo Drive - Black
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium + Office Starter 2010 - 64-Bit
ASUS USB-N13 802.11b/g/n USB 2.0 300Mbps Wireless USB Adapter


Some other little stuff also included but that pretty much sums it up. That came in a decent bit under my budget and from all I could tell it should be able to run this game if not on the highest settings then pretty close, particularly if/when the game is better optimized. I also figure with the SLI capability I can always add another GPU card (dual 580's with 6GB VRAM would have to rock) later when prices come down. I also think the motherboard can allow later upgrades (though not positive on this). The new system should be here within a week or so.

Anyhow, thanks again for all the the help!



Fang