I don't want to rain on your parade and I too am in a similar situation. I build a new, cutting-edge pc every 18 months or so and am on my 6th pc since starting that. I've been tempted to go ahead and grab the X48 + GTX280 but have a really hard time justifying it to myself.
My current pc isn't as strong as the one you've described in your first post, but I run IL2 at higher settings than you've listed and get close to the same performance figures. Some of my system specs are moderate by today's standards, but still scream through most anything I've thrown at it:
E6700 @ 3.2
2GB corsair pc6400 @ stock
8800GTS 512
Raptor 74gb (boot sector(
WD 300GB 7200 16mb cache (data)
X-Fi Platinum
I run usually at 1680x1050 with 8xAA, 16XAF as my global setting and have occassionally bumped it up to 1920X1200 on my 27" Dell, but I like the performance/IQ median of the slightly lower resolution setting. With Vsync on, I run UT3 and COD4 pegged at 60fps under almost all circumstances.
Unless you absolutely HAVE to have 50+ frames in Crysis (I don't even have Crysis), I just don't see the benefit to building again anytime soon. Personally, I'll wait until the fall for all the hardware refreshes and the actual release of some pending titles.
But I am happy for you. That's a nice rig.
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