Gettin two GTX 295 would be cheaper. Im savin up for two 5870s and an i7 860 to replace my q6600 and two 4890s.
What the fuck. And I thought my 5770 cost a lot.
Isn’t ONE 5870 enough to run crysis at the HIGHEST settings at 2560x1600? which is what, 1.5 times your resolution?
Edit: only if you count 20fps as playable. But still, massive overkill.
I can build a PC for 400$ that can play crysis at 60FPS.
What monitor will you be using with that?
One 1920x1080 and one 1680x1050. I haven’t gotten the 1920x1080 one yet, but im gonna use some best buy gift cards i got lyin around to get it.
That’s because you steal half the hardware.
Oh thank god. I see way too many tools who buy SLI systems with 12GB of RAM and then have a 22" LCD >_<
i7 is overkill too, go i5.
Overkill is a good thing.
Well I only bought my mobo and CPU, which I replaced for free since then, But I meant I would pay 400$ if I actually bought the hardware.
^This^
I see “Overkill” as “Future-Proofing”
Ahhahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahhahaaahahahahahahahahaha
Pay $1000 for high end parts
Cry when you see them 4 months later for $200
fix’d
Not 4 years. At all.
At release last year the 4870 was selling for a minimum of $299.
Now it is as low as $125. That is less than half the price in a year…
GTX 280 last year was minimum $650 at release. Now, you can hardly find it, but it’s around 300 where you can.
Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83Ghz (Overclocked to 3.2Ghz)
ASUS P5Q Turbo LGA775
8GB DDR2 1066 Kingston HyperX
nVidia GeForce GTX260 Core 216 (Overclocked to 675/2304Mhz)
AverMedia M780 Dual TV Tuner
Sound Blaster Audigy 2
1.3TB (320TB Hitachi Deskstar, 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black) Hard drives
600watt OCZ Modular PSU
NZXT Sentry 2 Fan Controller (for the 6 case fans)
Card Reader/two DVD Burners
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Acer 22in AL2223W (1680x1050) and Acer 23in H233H (1920x1080) Monitors
Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 6000 v2
Wacom Intuos4 Medium Tablet
500GB Western Digital Caviar Hard Drive in NexStar eSata enclosure
Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Speaker System
ASUS M50Vm-B1
Intel Core2 Duo T9400 @ 2.53Ghz
4GB DDR2 800
320GB Hard Drive
1GB nVidia GeForce 9600M GS (dedicated)
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Logitech VX Nano Mouse
ASUS Eee PC 1000HA
1.6Ghz Intel Atom N270
2GB DDR2 667
160GB Hard Drive
Eeebuntu 3.0 Linux Distro
Texas Instruments TI-89 Titanium
Palm T|X
Fix’d.
True, but not 4 months either.
I guess it’s worse than I thought then.
My 4870x2 was 400 euros at the release slightly more than a year ago, and it’s still 330 now.