So Starcraft II is coming out...

If you're just getting this computer for gaming, and nothing to deal with video/graphics rendering and the like, you're better off just getting the i5 750 to cut some costs. They're both pretty much the same processor, while the i5 750 doesn't have Hyper Threading.

Also, I don't know how much you'll save by doing this, but get the SATAII version of the Caviar Black instead. The SATA3 version isn't worth the added premium, imo, as the increased read/write speeds are very minimal. Better yet, get the HD103SJ from Samsung, as it is one of the faster platter drives out there.

Lastly, that motherboard is good, but if you are planning to add a second GPU in the future, then the second 4x PCI-e slot will bottleneck your card. I would recommend looking into the newly released P55A-G55 from MSI. It's much better for the money, and the PCI-e slots will run at 8x/8x, which will perform better compared to 16x/4x.

And i don't have half the comp it needs to run. I'm this close from buying a new one just for it (and others yet to come), but i'm afraid that if i buy one right now, it won't be good enough to run the later games i want, like RAGE and Doom 4.

I can make a good one for about 1500$

INTEL I7 860
ASUS P7P55D-E
HYPER X 1600MHZ 4GB
WDC 1TB BLACK 64MO SATA3
ATI HD 5850 1GB
Power Supply CORSAIR TX 650Watts
+ windows 7

But i'm really out of the computer building thing since a couple of years and like i said, i don't know if this is a good time to buy a new comp, the only PC games that i want are the following:

Starcraft II
Diablo III
Rage
Doom 4
Civilization 5
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Napoleon: Total War
Deus Ex: Human Revolution

You're probably thinking 1500$ is alot of money for only 8 games. But let me tell you that i will be playing Civ 5, SCII and Diablo III for years to come when i'll have them.

So what do you guys think, should I invest in a new comp ? You think this one i spec'd will be enough to play at good settings the games i mentionned and maybe others who have yet to be announced ?jack00

Well i look on bestbuy.ca and it's 500$+ for the 5870, even the 5850 is 399$...

I'll try to look elsewhere.

So that would be

I5 750

MSI P55A-G55 OR MSI 790GX-G65

HYPER X 1600MHZ 4GB

HD103SJ from Samsung

ATI HD 5850 1GB

Power Supply CORSAIR TX 650Watts

+ windows 7

we here in the pc gaming world have a fun little game we polay call "system requirements" you see when games finally near completion we get their requirements not years in advance (omitting perhaps mr fail over at EA with bf1943 but i digress).

so like deus ex we have no idea.. sc2 we do and that ssytem is about a billion times stronger doom 4 again no requirements but considering its meybe got a skeleton crew at id working on it dont expect anything spectacular. and rage looks to be in the same boat as doom 4 so yeah of the games lsited those who will probably be msot demanding we cant safely say how demanding they could be.

well, what do you have now? maybe you can get away with a cpu/gpu/ram upgrade only

I don't know about Doom 4, but if an Xbox 360 can run Rage at 60 frames per second, your good.

Starcraft 2 is going to be intentionally underengineered, or at least really scalable. Blizzard likes to pride itself on having games that even old computers can play well (on lower settings anyways)... post your current specs, like the above guy said.yarharfiddledee

yep, my wife has a shuttle computer running an athlon 64 2800+ and a geforce 6600GT, we fully intend on seeing if it will run on that, if not, then she gets a new computer so we can 2v2 some AI and what not.

Well i look on bestbuy.ca and it's 500$+ for the 5870, even the 5850 is 399$...

I'll try to look elsewhere.

So that would be

I5 750

MSI P55A-G55 OR MSI 790GX-G65

HYPER X 1600MHZ 4GB

HD103SJ from Samsung

ATI HD 5850 1GB

Power Supply CORSAIR TX 650Watts

+ windows 7

jack00

Yeah i checked your links, but i'm in canada, i don't know if it would be worth it to order from there. I'll check it out for sure tho.jack00

Yeah i checked your links, but i'm in canada, i don't know if it would be worth it to order from there. I'll check it out for sure tho.jack00

Here you go.

Why don't you want to build? It's like putting together lego dude and would only cost you like 700-800 bucks.

Why don't you want to build? It's like putting together lego dude and would only cost you like 700-800 bucks.

RobboElRobbo

Why don't you want to build? It's like putting together lego dude and would only cost you like 700-800 bucks.

RobboElRobbo

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Why don't you want to build? It's like putting together lego dude and would only cost you like 700-800 bucks.

Animatronic64

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Why don't you want to build? It's like putting together lego dude and would only cost you like 700-800 bucks.

hitman6actual

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Why don't you want to build? It's like putting together lego dude and would only cost you like 700-800 bucks.

jack00

"I'm really out of the computer building thing" And you're looking on Best Buy

Starcraft 2 won't require high video memory to run but if you want to spend money make sure you get a good GPU that will last you a few years because GPU's are more important than CPU's for gamers these days.