If you have about 2000 dollar buget on your new comp, what would you do?
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Thinking about using it for 4-5 years is one thing, but do realize that some kitchen fridges have enough graphical horsepower to play starcraft... which is to say, you wont notice any lagging even if you didnt spend the money on fancy GPU subsystems. But now for a serious qeuestion ... what kind if performance do you expect/need in 4-5 years?
Tried SuCom at fullres dualscreen? Or NWN2 at anything over 1900x1200? Good luck playing at max.
macnoob
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wow lotta money
2000 dollars for minor gaming? holy crap man. id spend 1000 for minor, not 2. with 2thousand i would make myself a server. also, if you are worried about lag on those games im going to guess you dont usee the greatest computer right now. counterstrike doesnt take great stuff to play, its nice to have good suff, but not nessecery.
2000 dollars for minor gaming? holy crap man. id spend 1000 for minor, not 2. with 2thousand i would make myself a server. also, if you are worried about lag on those games im going to guess you dont usee the greatest computer right now. counterstrike doesnt take great stuff to play, its nice to have good suff, but not nessecery.
ADE
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Well you can get a nice MOBO to OC and shit load of RAM (3-4GB----that's a lot to me!) and 2 8800GTX with a kick ass PSU. Yeah, I think that's in a $2000 budget! Sure, why not have 2 8800GTX doing what ever game you said? Sure it'll be a stretch, but hell, If he could fork a few extra $$$ he could run 3 of the 8800GTX on the striker MOBO...I think its able to do 3....has 3 PCI-E 16x on it....but hell yeah that would defenitally do that game you said with 2 monitors!
INTELCRAZY
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I would go, with what my new build below says, LOL, except maybe 2 88GTS's
Because SLI is marketing on the brain.
And watch all this fanciness go to waste as he plays a flip-the-coin-game of will-my-hdds-work-today.....
Find me a 8800GTX SLI that will do Neverwinter Nights 2 @ XHD @ Max.in every scenario.
He doesnt know past the jargon and fancy sales terms, you're wasting your time
Posts like these are amusing to take note of and then read down the road, after you've gotten your machine, gotten used to it and watched it grow obsolete....
if you just want a pc that will last 5 years, you don't even need to spend more then a few hundred, you could just build a cheap P4. hell, i got a 5 year old p3 sitting on the floor next to me running game servers. it can go online etc perfectly fine, although slightly slow because it only has 64mb ram. i didn't even have to pay for it, i found it in the trash complete with ram, cpu, and hard drive 
a computer that would last 4-5 years, and 'mild' gaming can't really be in the same sentence. even todays expensive 8800GTX cards will probably be unusable on games that come out in a few years. hell, in a few months a new card will come out and the gtx wont even be the top card anymore. kinda depressing when you think about it. but thats computer advancement for you.
by todays standards, a computer that can only do 'mild' gaming today is probably only as good as a computer that could do extreme gaming a few years ago.
a computer that would last 4-5 years, and 'mild' gaming can't really be in the same sentence. even todays expensive 8800GTX cards will probably be unusable on games that come out in a few years. hell, in a few months a new card will come out and the gtx wont even be the top card anymore. kinda depressing when you think about it. but thats computer advancement for you.
by todays standards, a computer that can only do 'mild' gaming today is probably only as good as a computer that could do extreme gaming a few years ago.