Desktop: Crysis in High Settings

[Area-51]

My friend needs a desktop that can play at least all the games in high settings with no lag.

 

[b1gapl]

First of all...budget? Second...for tower only? Or including monitor, mouse, etc?

 

[Area-51]

He wants to know how much will it cost then he will know how much he wants to spend. For everything he needs to play.

 

[b1gapl]

It's going to cost rough estimate of about $1000-1300. But really, he should give us a budget, so we can work around something.

 

[Area-51]

well u said 1000-1300 so he said 1300

 

[b1gapl]

Case - Cooler Master 690 or his choice...
Processor - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 OEM
Motherboard - DFI Lanparty DK P35-T2RS
Memory - 2 x 1GB Crucial Ballistix Tracers DDR2-800
Graphics cards - EVGA 8800GTS 512
Power supply - Corsair 550VX
Hard drive - Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 320GB
Optical drive - Samsung 20X SATA DVD Burner
Heatsink - Xigmatek HDT-S1283 w/ Arctic Cooling MX-2
Monitor - BenQ FP202W V3 20" 5ms
OS - Vista Home Premium 32bit OEM


That list comes to $1,321.88 before shipping. No keyboard, mouse, and speakers. Unless he needs those, I assumed he can use his current.

 

[thirdshiftdj]

what size monitor?

edit: nvm

 

[Area-51]

Why not TRUE? No SLI?

 

[b1gapl]

I don't know what he exactly wants. You should of mentioned before.

I picked the Xigmatek because it's close to the TRUE's performance at half the price. And it already has a fan. He can pick the TRUE if he wants.

If he wants SLI, then I would suggest the EVGA 750i FTW.

 

[Peter.Cort]

also sli on a 20" doesn't make a lot of sense. if he wants sli and wants it to be useful then a budget increase would be in order and a larger monitor/more powerful cards would be in order as well.