I am planning on getting an i7 3660k, nvidea 580 3mb, 8gb ram, solid state hard drive, on windows 7 64bit. The current pc I use was built in 2004 so it does not run any new games. I think I got my return on my investment with 7 years of pretty hard use.

Hopefully this rig should be able to run whatever modded version of il2 is out. Unfortunately I will probably hold off on COD until the merged version comes out with Moscow battle. To many issues and unknowns for me to deal with the frustration. I know that this rig may be at the low end by then but DCS A-10 Il2 modded, and ArmA3 are really looking like they will occupy my time until then.

my 2 cents :)

I am a HUGE fan of spending way too much money on computers so my first instinct is to say go for it dude and don't pinch a penny if you can help it lol.

Now that said, it really should not be necessary to get a huge system if your goal is to just be able to run a game well. most games can be run very well while still staying within the 500-800 range, and im sure that there are MANY out there that say they can do it for 50 bucks and such but not being one of those magical people my self I tend to find that a well built 500-800 dollar rig hangs in there with the best of them on most all new titles and does it very well.

NOW.... THAT said....lol i was one of the fortunate ones to have a job and was able to spend a more than normally reasonable amount of money on my new rig and I bought it for a few reasons but the top most one of them was to be ready to run CLOD when it hit the market and my hope was to run it with all the bells and whistles turned up ( or as close to it as i could get ).

If you know the history of the release then I do not need to tell you this did not happen. :) but Since every new and old game runs on this same system with crippling speed and agility I really do not have anything to complain about. In fact I go as far as to thank very much the hype of this game for forcing my hand in making me upgrade so big and much quicker then I would have done on my own :)

My specs are posted below and this system does ...... well ...... run CLOD. but I still get stutters and it does not really give me as good as a performance as I would like to have seen. This is likely still largely due to the fact that Cross Fire / SLI have not really been well optimized in CLOD's code along with all the other issues that there still working on. People with less hardware then myself are reporting much better performance then myself but my guess would be they are using Single large video cards and might have done some tweaking of a lot of there settings to get this result.

If you are one of the people capable of doing this tweeking then I hear it is possible to get better performance then the stock build but I do not do much adjusting unless its very simple and I know for sure I wont break any thing so my experience has been as described.

Finally I say happy buying :) :grin: <--------------this has been me every day since i bought this beautiful machine and I am sure you will be too no matter what you get. Every time I play DCS, crysis, IL2 46, ROF, Might and Magic VI, DOWII, WOW, Star Wars TOR (beta Tester), Iracing, and every other game with every graphics option turned to EXTREME!!! I am all teeth listining to those cooling fans run up and start humming as they cool those twin beauties to a consistent 61-65C MUahahahahahahahahahahah....... oh sorry lol i get excited :)

congrats ahead of time dude :)

full specs
CASE: Cooler Master Elite 430

CPU: AMD Phenom™II X4 970 Black Edition Quad-Core

CASE Cooling: 1x140mm 5x120mm

CPU Cooling: CoolerMaster V8 CPU Cooler

HDD1: 30 GB Kingston 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC SSD (way to small in hindsight)

HDD2: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (1TB x 2 (2 TB
Capacity) Raid 0

MEMORY: Corsair 8GB (2GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel

MOTHERBOARD: Asus M4A89TD PRO/USB3 AMD 890FX Chipset

Cross Fire Single Monitor (currently 42in Viewable FP 1920x1080 HD TV)

OS: Windows® 7 Home Premium (64-bit Edition)

POWERSUPPLY: 800 Watts - XtremeGear Gaming PS

VIDEO: AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB GDDR5 16X PCIe

VIDEO2: AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB GDDR5 16X PCIe

RUXTMP my current rig plays every game on ULTRA and il2 is smooth as sil with avg fps of 75fps on full everything. I do the same. Build a rig that lasts for a few years. Anf this rig will last for a few years also.

Go GET'EM TIGER!

I have the PC that you plan to build, apart from the i5 instead of the i7, and CoD runs great, quite smooth with max settings.

Cheers,
Insuber

I will switch to i5 s1155 Sandy with 8GB ddr3 RAM. Hope that the situation will be a bit better.

Refreshing my current monster with LGA2011 and more intense liquid cooling in a CaseLabs case.

Two pumps.
Two 480s on top in a push pull configuration
Here are couple of Google Sketchup pictures f what it may look like.


http://roadczar.com/gallery/var/resi...g?m=1323322417

http://roadczar.com/gallery/var/resi...g?m=1323322417

IM DOING IT! Going to get a brand new pc today :D:D:D

GZ Tav! Put it please in your sig and have fun with your new "baby"! ;-)

Ah. I Chickened out at the shop.. it was too expensive! Going to shop around and get a good deal online if i can :)

+1.. I am looking for a good rig for around £600, any tips?