[QUOTE="Solid_Tango"]I would recommend you to save money and go for an Intel Sandy bridge processor ( future proof) and preferible a Nvidia Graphics card ionusX

hes got 900 to spend man and i openly recommended a 6900 seires and an i5 SB.. -.-

no reason to complain about those man while their are better gpu's i didnt want to push it as priced for psu's and cases are really bad here especially after shipping. ive seen power supplies up in the area of 70 bucks a pop after shipping for basic 500 watt's

a solid effort on your part but what currency is this in? both are overpriced garbadge tbh.. yes they have most of what make a good gaming machine but they lack a very specific requierment which makes them .. NOT good gaming machines the video card.. video cards get lazily tossed around by the folks over at prebuilt dell, hp, emachine, etc and dont get the credit they deserve.

so here is wat i recommend.. you build it yourself.. its gotten really easy to do it.. tab a into slot b sort of stuff. if your willing to hear me out or at least do a partial build (like most is assembled for you am you need to do is install 1-2 parts(id show you how)) please talk back.

both are good systems dont get me wrong but id probably not find a job better suited for them than media center on playing un demanding MMO's and bad console ports.

ionusX

a solid effort on your part but what currency is this in? both are overpriced garbadge tbh.. yes they have most of what make a good gaming machine but they lack a very specific requierment which makes them .. NOT good gaming machines the video card.. video cards get lazily tossed around by the folks over at prebuilt dell, hp, emachine, etc and dont get the credit they deserve.

so here is wat i recommend.. you build it yourself.. its gotten really easy to do it.. tab a into slot b sort of stuff. if your willing to hear me out or at least do a partial build (like most is assembled for you am you need to do is install 1-2 parts(id show you how)) please talk back.

both are good systems dont get me wrong but id probably not find a job better suited for them than media center on playing un demanding MMO's and bad console ports.

ionusX

Hey everyone, I currently own all 3 gaming consoles and play them regularly, but recently I have been having an urge to enter into the PC Gaming crowd to finally round out my gaming experience. With PS3 I have games like Uncharted, Call of Duty, Final Fantasy etc, with XBox 360 I have Mass Effect and other 360 exclusive games and with Wii I have Zelda, Mario and a load of RPGs exclusive to the system, however the recent plethora of games releasing on PC has enticed me to finally start thinking about PC gaming. I want to play games like the original Crysis, Starcraft II, and Portal. Games like Crysis 2 and Battlefield 3 look more polished and refined then there console counterparts so I would like to give those a try, and lets not mention those deals on Steam that will save you some cash. Anyway, I am not looking for a top of the line rig, just one to get me started and one that I can upgrade in the future. The following are two PCs that are available for purchase at my local FutureShop, and fit within my price range, and I want the PC gaming community to give me some feedback. Please note, I am a little out of touch and I am limited in my knowledge of PC Hardware. Please answer me the following questions when looking at the 2 PCs, will it play Crysis? On what settings? Is it futureproof or will it certainly need upgrading?

1: HP Pavilion Elite

Processor: AMD Phenom II 1055T

Processor Speed: 2.80 GHz

Processor Cores: 6

RAM: 8GB PC3-10600 DDR3 SDRAM

Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6570 with 1GB Dedicated Video Memory and up to 4GB Shared Video Memory

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium

Sound Card: AMD 785G Chipset

Cache: 3MB L2, 6MB shared L3

Price: $900

2: Gateway

Processor: Intel Core i7-2600

Processor Speed: 3.4 GHz

Processor Cores: 4

RAM; 8GB DDR3

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT420 with 1GB Dedicated Video Memory

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium

Sound Card: Intel H67 Express

Cache: 6B L3

Power: 300 Watts

Price: $999

PS3 for the following reasons...a) do not own a capable gaming PC, if I did it will be a no brainer, b) My 360 was purchased back in 2006 and yes it is still kicking, but I worry that it could become permafried at any time, which is not something I want because I have to finish Lost Odyssey and play Mass Effect 3 when it comes out

[QUOTE="coltgames"]they need to redeem themselves with versus or i see the franchise going downhill very soon if not all readyDibdibdobdobo

"Best" Graphics is a matter of preference. I personally find that the best looking game out there right now is Final Fantasy XIII. Its colourful, real-time visuals are as close to CGI as I have ever seen, and the art direction is top-notch. But like I said its all preference. If you like games that try to have realistic graphics and such you will probably choose something like Alan Wake or Uncharted 3, and for Sci-fi enthusiasts, they might choose Halo Reach or Crysis 2. I for one choose FFXIII, off the board

I found for a multiplayer demo that the visuals looked good. Multiplayer visuals are not supposed to be insanely detailed anyway

And once again someone preaching how linearity is the scourge of gaming.