Nah, I think I'll pass to be honest. I'm trying to stay at $1,000 after shipping with a nice combo deal on that mobo, and the P45 looks fine enough for me. I mean, its gonna be a big improvement anyway...gamerwiz09

P45 is a very good and stable mobo

HD4870 > GTX260

2xHD4850 = GTX280

2xHD4870 > GTX280

HD4850 > 9800GTX

Enough said.

Of course the higher end ATI card will beat the lower end Nvidia card and newer technology beats older. What I don't understand is why he thinks it is such a victory seeing two of ATI's card xfired to beat one of Nvidia's.

Takes two 4870s to be better than 1 gtx280 meaning you'll have to purchase an extra graphics card + having better mobo + having better cooling for those badboys = costing more than it would for a gtx280. Best single card gpu out right now

felenor

your going towant your dual core speed to be about 2.5 to run crysis 2.0 is a big bottleneck. playing on vista to be safe id have 3 gigs of ram.

now, graphics card, i run 1680 x 1050 at very high .. bout 35 fps with two 980gtx's in sli, i dont know if you could get off playably on high with a single 9800 but you prob will with some things like textures on medium and most on high, if you want you could blow for a gtx 280, or you can get SLI 9800's

your PSU is going ot need an upgrade if you want a new GPU.. 305 watts wont cut it, for the gpu's i mentioned above, especially 280 or sli 9800's ur gonna want 650 watts + reccomended 700.

nimatoad2000

This is what I have right now

Dell Dimension E520

Windows Vista Home Premium

Intel G965 Express chipset

Intel Core2DuoE4400@2.0Ghz

Ati Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB

2GB 667 Mhz ram

Seagate 250GB barracuda 7.10 HD

Blu-ray R/W drive

305 watt 44amps psu

22" Dell Ultrasharp LCD display

I want to play Crysis on high at 1680x1050. What do I need to upgrade?

anyway, so could all fo that run on a 500 watt power supplyslyr114

well im defintly going to get the quad core, just idk bout 8 gb of ram, depends what is on sale at time i buyslyr114

[QUOTE="Horny-Dude"][QUOTE="slyr114"]i am getting 8gbs of ram because i am going to install vista 64bit anyway so why not it is so cheap so get all 8slyr114

or for people who want to run toehr things in the background while gaming, like a media player with a web browser open with a few instant messenger clients at same time, i dont want my game to lag at all no matter waht im doing, and what ever ur the noob u lurker