Buying new PC (help plz)

[lmpulse]

I will buy a new pc soon...
What do u guys think about this pc?

Case:
NZXT Tempest

Motherboard:
XFX nForce 790i SLI

CPU:
Core 2 Duo E8500 (will OC to 3,8GHz)

CPU cooler:
Cooler Master Hyper 212

Memory:
OCZ 2x2GB 1600MHz DDR3 Platinum Kit

Graphics card:
2x XFX GTX280 1GB XXX (OC'ed) in SLI (yeah im crazy)

Sound card:
Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Xtreme Audio

HDD:
2x500GB Seagate (Raid 1)

Burner:
Samsung S223F

PSU:
Cooler Master Realpower 1000W

OS:
Vista Ultimate 64bit

Speakers:
Logitech X-530

Monitor:
Samsung T200HD

Keyboard:
Logitech G15 (v2)

Mouse:
A4-Tech X750-F

[AnemuS]

Overkill :/

Anyways if you have the budget , why not...

[MiKe 51-50]

Memory:
OCZ 2x2GB 1600MHz DDR3 Platinum Kit

Graphics card:
2x XFX GTX280 1GB XXX (OC'ed) in SLI (yeah im crazy)

If you have these you should get a quad core or you will bottleneck that dual core. DDR3 has a very small performance gain over DDR2 but cost a ton more.

What games do you plan on playing?

[lmpulse]

What games do you plan on playing?

Crysis Warhead, FarCry 2, WoW , CoD:WW, GTA IV, Fallout 3, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway and maybe WAR

I want to play them on 1680*1050, max graphics, AA and AF

[TheForce]

Wow, very nice. You must have money to spend freely
Although, I would recommend that you buy a bigger power supply, like 1200 watts.
And a bigger case would make your life easier lol. Full tower is the way to go.

[MiKe 51-50]

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

Any one of these would be nice for your set up.

[tedtwilliger]

I'd be going with a quad core as well, if you have the budget for it than do it. An extra $100 or so is well worth it.

[Azilius]

If you have the money (by the looks of it you do) I'd go with 8gb ram, I have 4 with vista and it eats around 2gb idle.

[xxxduelxxx]

do u think right now is a good time to buy a new computer? i mean u know the economy is in a recession, everything is cheap cheap.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... 8012521591

what u guys think?

[Kirkaldi]

GFX card is just way too good. Just get a GEForce 8800 GTX

[MonstaH]

GFX card is just way too good. Just get a GEForce 8800 GTX

It's not just 1, it's 2 of them in SLI XD

Yeah, that system is pretty overkill... would last you 5 years easily

[cuchulainn]

FYI, WoW doesn't play nice with SLI.

You're not really going to see a difference over a single nice card, but those other games should look pretty good.

[crazy_foo]

your playing at 1680x1050 with that setup u gotta be kidding... I play with 4GB DDR2, Q6600 OCed to 3.2Ghz and a 9800GTX card at 1920x1200 just fine on all the games, of course games like Crysis and far cry 2 I am not gonna be able to do AA but at that res who cares! lol. The SLI is overkill for that res, the scaling for SLI only makes a significant difference at 1920x1200 or higher res, u might as well just get one GTX280 and save the money u will notice little difference. If u want to future proof your pc take the extra money from the SLI card and buy a Q9650 and a watercooling system and OC it like mad. That's my suggestion