That system will play a lot of the newest games with about a mid-level support of advanced features and performance. And it's a fairly decent price. Here are the caveats I see with that system
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I'm not sure I'd go with that. The A8NPro isn't a bad motherboard per se, but AGP and PCI are fast becoming obsolete (even now the high end video cards are PCIe-only, and by next spring you'll be hard-pressed to find AGP video cards at all). Plus the 7600 is at least 2 steps behind the top of the nVidia line. I'd go with a system that's entirely PCIe-based, and go for a GF 7800 series video card. You want at least one PCIe x16 slot for the video card, 2 would be nice but be aware that the dual-card solutions from both ATI and nVidia leave much to be desired yet in terms of stability and performance and it's probably not worth pursuing them yet. You probably won't need more than 2 PCIe x1 slots with everything that's integrated into the motherboards these days. You'll also want to bag WinXP Home. It's more annoyance than it's worth, given that you can get OEM WinXP Pro for less than $150 (you'll have to purchase core hardware (motherboard, hard drive, etc.) along with it though
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Listen to the above. $1500 for that? Uhh.. Right now my old 9800 Pro takes on anything I thow at it.. and that's running a Barton 2500 and a gig of 3200. SL runs fine at medium levels.
I just put together a machine for Fox. CPU Athlon 64 3000+ MBD A8N-VM RAM 4x 512MB SP3200 HDD Samsung 160 VID GeForce 7900GT KO CDD LG Superdrive dvd+-rw CAS Aspire XQpack Plus a Zalman cooler for the processor and XP Home (contrary to Jurann's opinion, XP Home is fine for pedestrian use :).
$1282 after tax. Nearly 17000 on 3DMark 03. Over 3900 on 3DMark 06 (this before any niceties such as 'rebooting after installing a load of software' and without any tweaking). All parts from Memory Express.
The machine you linked is a fine pile of hardware but TigerDirect seems to be asking for too much.
Maybe on its way down a flight of stairs and into a dumpster at the bottom.
Its rediculously overpriced, almost by $500.
The components are ill managed. You don't need -nearly- so powerful a processor for gaming, but your motherboard and video card combination and your RAM make all the difference in the world.
Look towards building your own or having someone else put it together for you.
You could 'build' a machine from the ground up that would grind that thing into dust, and do it for much less than $1500.
$1250 would build a pretty smoking machine.
As would, say $1000 if you were 'really' choosy about hardware.
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CPU Athlon 64 3000+
MBD A8N-VM
RAM 4x 512MB SP3200
HDD Samsung 160
VID GeForce 7900GT KO
CDD LG Superdrive dvd+-rw
CAS Aspire XQpack
Plus a Zalman cooler for the processor and XP Home (contrary to Jurann's opinion, XP Home is fine for pedestrian use :).
$1282 after tax. Nearly 17000 on 3DMark 03. Over 3900 on 3DMark 06 (this before any niceties such as 'rebooting after installing a load of software' and without any tweaking). All parts from Memory Express.
The machine you linked is a fine pile of hardware but TigerDirect seems to be asking for too much.
I build machines. My fee is beer.
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Maybe on its way down a flight of stairs and into a dumpster at the bottom.
Its rediculously overpriced, almost by $500.
The components are ill managed. You don't need -nearly- so powerful a processor for gaming, but your motherboard and video card combination and your RAM make all the difference in the world.
Look towards building your own or having someone else put it together for you.
You could 'build' a machine from the ground up that would grind that thing into dust, and do it for much less than $1500.
$1250 would build a pretty smoking machine.
As would, say $1000 if you were 'really' choosy about hardware.
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