New MMORPG Gaming System

[Total Immortal]

Hey,
It's about time to upgrade from my Athlon XP 2200+. I play CS, DoD, TFC, WoW, and I will probably be getting Warhammer when it comes out. Budget is soft, but I'd like to spend no more than 1200-1500 (OS and Monitor excluded from price) if possible to build a solid system to support these games. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[shan1784]

I don't claim to be an expert by any means but those games listed, I don't believe, would require that high end of a machine to run. My system in my sig below would play them at max settings easily. I don't know anything about warhammer though.

You could build a machine like mine now for $600 - $700 if I had to guess. That would include the 19" lcd monitor...

If you were going to stick with those games I think you could save some money...

I don't know experts, what do you think?

 

[Peter.Cort]

agreed. If you're playing on a 24" and want max everything and 60+ FPS in Shat... well thats a different story. What size is the monitor you'll be playing on? Also you should be able to play all those maxed out with a budget of no more then 800 bucks.

CPU
Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Quad-Core Processor - CPUs / Processors

Ram
Newegg.com - G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory

Video Card
Newegg.com - ASUS EAH4850/HTDI/512M Radeon HD 4850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards

PSU
Newegg.com - PC Power & Cooling S61EPS 610W Continuous @ 40°C EPS12V Power Supply 100 - 240 V UL, cUL, CE, CB, TUV - Power Supplies

HDD
Newegg.com - Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - Internal Hard Drives

Optical
Newegg.com - Pioneer Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 10X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 40X CD-R 32X CD-RW 40X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 20X DVD±R DVD Burner - CD / DVD Burners

Case (Purely up to you, i love this one though)
Newegg.com - NZXT TEMPEST Crafted Series CS-NT-TEM-B Black Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Computer Cases

Keyboard
Newegg.com - Saitek PK02 2-Tone 104 Normal Keys USB Standard Eclipse II Keyboard - Keyboards

Mouse
Newegg.com - Logitech G5 2-Tone 7 Buttons 1 x Wheel USB Laser 2000 dpi Mouse - Mouse

 

[Total Immortal]

Peter, I'm going to be playing on either a 21" or 22" screen. Honestly a huge pet peeve of mine is how f'ing terrible the FPS is in Shat on my current system. I don't know if I'll need 60 FPS but I'd definitely like more than 2 or 3 or whatever I'm getting now.

Thanks for the recommendation though, I'm definitely stoked about being able to save that kind of cash. Just wondering, but would that system be able to handle one of those new FPS games if I got a wild hair and wanted to try one out?

Edit: Can you recommend a mobo?

 

[Puddle Jumper]

A good motherboard to go with that build is the Gigabyte EP45 DS3L.

Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-EP43-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards

 

[Peter.Cort]

lawl. i knew i was forgetting something.. yeah the board that puddle jumper recommended is great. and that card should crank out 45 fps solid in shat. and trust me, i know all about the havoc shatt creates on pc's. my laptop just like **** the bed when i tried to fly into shat. it was like NUH UH MAN! and it crashed. then i laughed. haha. but yeah, you should be able to crank out any game with the 4850. but also for 100 bucks more you could get a 4870 which is better than the 4850. don't know percentage points but its a decent bit better.

 

[Total Immortal]

Finally got around to looking at all the components, looks nice but I have a couple questions. First, the mobo doesn't have RAID support, is that going to be a deal breaker? Second, do I need to spend 200 bucks on a PSU? OCZ and Corsair both offer 700W PSUs for a substantial savings and have high reviews on newegg.

 

[wafflehammer]

normally that psu has a discount and cost around $110...just wait for it to happen (dunno why it's gone, should come back in like a day)

Newegg.com - CORSAIR CMPSU-550VX 550W ATX12V V2.2 Power Supply 90 - 264 V UL, CUL, CE, CB, FCC Class B, TUV, CCC, C-tick - Power Supplies

would probably work fine with your build

RAID probably wouldn't be a deal breaker, if you need it that bad...can't you get a card for it?