New Computer

Can't see it :s

i say go with a 4850 better performance for the price. The rest looks decent though.

EDIT:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814131111

154.99 after mail in rebate, falls right in there with your prices on video cards.

Mobo shouldn't matter to much I don't think, but i'm not 100% sure on the chipsets with different cards, I know you can but it might lack different settings.

I got more than 1200 FPs on aim_arena with my lovely 280GTX I got yesterday with my new computer =)

I wonder what the 4870 x2 would get then.

darkhead_ wrote:I got more than 1200 FPs on aim_arena with my lovely 280GTX I got yesterday with my new computer =)

lol wut? 1200?

Not everywhere lol

if youre in the market for a new videocard forget about nvidia for now... if you change your videocard on a regular basis you can try the new gtx series but if its gonna be a long term investment go for a radeon 4000 series card. when real dx10 titles hit the stores the geforce 8/9 cards will be literally useless. in a geometry shader (one of the flagships of dx10) benchmark a hd3870 is 3 times faster than a gtx280.

64 tap tessalation:
HD3870: 151FPS
GTX280: 55FPS
8800GTS: 9FPS

also current nvidia videocard generations only support dx10.0, not dx10.1 which means no properly working anti aliasing for nvidia customers.

i recommend getting a radeon hd4850 card for resolutions up to 1680*1050.

about cpus: short term investment -> core 2 duo (eg e8400, if youre short on money: e7200)
long term investment -> core 2 quad (eg q9300, cheaper alternative: q6600)

darkhead_ wrote:I got more than 1200 FPs on aim_arena with my lovely 280GTX I got yesterday with my new computer =)

very useful in a game that only updates itself either 66 or 100 times perc second.