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      22nd Jan 2008
How much would a PC with intel core 2 duo E8500 and an ATI radeon HD3870x2 will cost? Also how good would it be at playing games like Crysis and CoD4.
 
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Whats the most you would spend £££.

 
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      22nd Jan 2008
Also, do you want to build it yourself or buy off the shelf?
 
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I'm not sure about the chipset or motherboard but I would like 2-4 gigs of ram. Price about $1000-2000USD. Yeah i'm planning on buying it off the shelf.
 
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About S1000-2000USD. I would be using 2-4gigs of ram and windows vista home premium or ultimate
 
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Ok, this lot comes to $1478 and does not include Monitor; Speakers; keyboard; Mouse; Operating System.

Also note I couldn't find any USA suppliers stocking the 3.2Ghz E8500 so I've included the 3Ghz E8400 to give you a rough idea, Add a bit more for the E8500,

This is assuming you're building it yourself.

Prices from Newegg and there were mail-in cash rebates available on some items.

That would make a good gaming machine but you could economise and still have a very good machine.

I'd personally ditch the 2 x ATI cards in crossfire and go for an Nvidia 8800GT 512Mb or even an Ultra for that budget.

Here's specs:

E8400:…………………………………………………………$225
Asus P5K SE Motherboard: (with Crossfire)………$150
2 x ATI HD3870:……………………………………………..$500
2Gb Corsair XMS2 DDR2 memory PC6400……………$74
Samsung SATA 500Gb Hard drive:…………………………$110
OCZ 700 watt Power Supply:…………………………………$135
Antec 900 Gamer’s case:………………………………………$120
Pioneer SATA DVDRW:………………………………………..$32
Creative X-Fi Xtrene Gamer Sound card:…………………$81
Zalman CNPS9500 CPU Cooler:………………………………$45
Arctic Silver Thermal paste:……………………………………$6

 
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      23rd Jan 2008
Actually the HD3870x2 is one card not two HD3870 cards in cross fire so its about $100 cheaper It has 1024mb of memory which is more than the 8800ultra . I think i can spend it bit more for 4gb memory and the E8500 instead of the E8400.
 
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      23rd Jan 2008
well lets get this out of the way first...
having a Gig of memory on your graphics card will do you no good. Even at extreme resoulutions.
stick with a card that offers 512mb.

3870 is a great card otherwise.

 
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      25th Jan 2008
Before you throw money away read the reviews and test reports om the 8800 GT's here ,

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/forum-56.php


 

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      26th Jan 2008
I'm not sure about the 8800gt since I want something newer and with more memory but I don't want to w8 for the Geforce 9800
 
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