Well I will be shortly receving my 22" Dell 2209WA and Im going to need to build a computer, its on the cards, it has to happen, Ive got about £800 now. Please watch this: Click Offsite You tube Link showing Track Ir5 with Arma 2 I have been looking over the mid priced gaming PC (£790) which is sand witched between the budget build (£485) and the i7 based gaming system (£1.15k). The mid priced gaming PC is based on an overlcoked q6600, and a 9800gtx 5sc (or some thing like that). My question is from that video, what kind of spec box are we talking about to play at that detail, 22" 1680x1024, all the bells (grass in the wind is just so sick). Please view the video in full before posting. I expect to start my build in 2 weeks, Arma 2 is out in June so I might wait, it would also tie in with next months wages so.. I could build the mid priced now however. Also interested in peoples comments on the vid
Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but I dont think you can build a setup for less than 800 that will run that all bells and whistles. By the looks of its 1000 wont let you do that, But seriously, I would reccomend: CPU: e8400 (second hand, somewhere like cex.co.uk for 115) Motherboard: Biostar i45 RAM: 4gb PC 8500 GPU: GTX 260/275, (only suggested nvidia due to me having better experiences wit their cards) cpu cooler: TRUE and push/pull ZM-F3 That will probs put you back around: 115, 110, 40, 140/200, 50 So, depending on the GPU, that basic setup would cost you 465/515. Then buy a the rest of the PC from the list, good case, good PSU, But thats just me. Havent really looked at any prices. You could always go Quad and get the Q6600/6700 Or, you could probs get a new AMD system So, a 720, decent motherboard, and everything else pretty much the same, would probs put you back the same amount, and might be easier to upgrade in the future. Motherboard wise Bit-tech really like the MSi GD70? Then get 4gb of DDR3 1333 CAS9, shouldnt be too bad, So, 120, 155, 55, 200, 50 580, not much more tbh. And more future proof than LGA775. Sorry for the long post,
Core i7 920 ~ £240, overclocked. 2 x GTX 260 '216' in SLI ~ £ 280 6GB DDR3 1333 MHz ram ~ £60 Gigabyte EX58-UD3R bios flashed to enable SLI ~ £160 1 TB Hard Drive ~ £ 70 PSU Corsair TX 750 W ~ £100 Case Antec 902 ~£100 Total ~ £1000 www.ebuyer.com www.scan.co.uk That system, with the correct SLI driver support, should allow you to play that game on very high setting, especially as you're limited to 1680 x 1050. However, as the game is due out in June, I would hold off on the purchase. The next-gen graphics cards, will be released around the same time, and should offer more performance than the SLI set-up, without the hassle and power requirements, in addition they will be DirectX 11 parts, and thus better future proofed. The game looks amazing, by the way!
