how is this rig for 676 pounds

PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ i7 Processor 920 (2.66GHz, 8MB cache, 4.8GT/sec)

OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium SP1 64Bit - English

MEMORY 4096MB (4x1024) 1067MHz DDR3 Tri Channel

HARD DRIVE 750GB Serial ATA (7200RPM) Hard Drive

GRAPHICS CARD 512MB ATI® Radeon® 4850 Graphics card

OPTICAL DRIVE 16X DVD+/- RW Optical Drive (DVD & CD read and write)

Looks pretty good, granted i dont know exactly how that converts to USD though. Think you could try for a HD4870? if not then that 4850 will do you fine untill later on. JSDempsey

its a dell xps studio so i get warranty and stuff, yeh about the graphics card i will upgrade it later on, i will need 2 upgrade the psu aswell. is the 4850 a bad graphics card?? can it max crysis?topmanhugo

It can max Crysis on 1280 x 768 resolution with acceptable frames. But I wouldn't advise that. Difference between High settings and Very High settings in Crysis is not that great, and a HD4850 can average 30fps on a resolution of 1680 x 1050 on all settings High (no AA). So it is a very decent card, and very affordable too.

I would say your rig is really heavy :P

but it looks good. Why not spring for the 4870 with GDDR5Neubauer4

676 pounts? that's really heavy!!!!!!w0lfbreeder

I saw this coming from a mile away.