My Budget is $1400 and i would like to have a XFX 5850 in this build. Would appreicate it.

[QUOTE="YourNextStalker"]

I decided to go all the way and get a XFX 5850 Black edition. Is that a wise choice? Taking into account that i will be upgrading to two in the future

kaitanuvax

Unless you game at 2560x1500 or higher, I won't see a need for crossfire for the next 3-4 years at least.

I decided to go all the way and get a XFX 5850 Black edition. Is that a wise choice? Taking into account that i will be upgrading to two in the future

Hope we don't have a Nvidia fanboy here.

What's your budget? Around ~$220?

kaitanuvax

This is my build

-AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE 3.4ghz

-6 GB Ram

-750gb HDD

-850W PSU

-msi 790FX

i was thinking of along the lines of a MSI GTX 260 Twin Frozr and when the time comes upgrade or add another. But i dont know if thats a good card, there is also a ASUS GTX 260 for around the same price and also a XFX 260. I know there's other cheaper and maybe even better cards out there but how would i know, i dont even know what to choose.:?

Oh god no. Don't go crossfire with just a 19' monitor. Either get a HD 5770 or HD 5850 instead (even then, the HD 5850 is overkill).Luminouslight

DVD drive-25.99

Case-69.99

Monitor-119.99

MOBO-119.99

Printer-31.99

2 x GPU-499.98(249.99 each)

PSU-79.99

RAM-104.99

CPU-209.99

OS-104.99

Total comes out to be $1,410 USD

Does all the parts i have picked out work together or should i consider something

[QUOTE="YourNextStalker"]with a $1200 budget, a build like that couldnt play metro 2033 in high settingskilerchese

Thats the only thing you could be doing!

The OPTIMAL system requirements?

Core i7 CPU($200+)
DirectX 11 Compatible video card, preferably GTX 470($300-$500) or GTX 480($400-$600)
and I quote "As much RAM as possible(8GB+)" 8GB of ram? $250+
Fast HDD or SSD.

Thats right, I believe this is the first game that has recommended an SSD for the hard drive optimal experience.

Just from those BASIC numbers, thats $800 for just FOUR of the required basic EIGHT components of a computer, not including the monitor which will cost another $150+ for a good one.

That leaves you with about $200 for a PSU, there goes another $100, motherboard for current i7 CPUs are about $150-$200. There goes the rest of your money.

Now your over your budget and you still don't have a case or an optical drive.

Your not going to be able to play this game on high with a budget of a measly $1,200.

I didnt know what optimal meant sorry this is my first build and i didnt know that Metro 2033 had such high standards. lets start over how about $1200 build with monitor and Printer, that can play ArmA 2 at good settings

Your budget doesn't make it feasible to build a computer that will play Metro 2033, using the optimal system specifications of course.

Your going to have to settle for something less with a budget like that.

kilerchese

I need everything from list of things i said in the first post. i also changed it to $1200 with monitor and printer also.