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I got paid yesterday and last night was thinking how i could blow some money.

So today I went out and bought the parts for a new computer.

The only orignal thing from my last computer being carried over is the DVD drive and the case.

So this is what i got and the performance is phenominal.

Intel E8400 at 3.0GHz (I wanted the 8500 which is 3.16Ghz but they had no stock and if i really want that extra 150Mhz i can just overclock) $188

GIGABYTE EP45-DS4P Based on the Intel P45 chipset. Has all the features i wanted and them some. Lovely put together motherboard $191

CORSAIR RAM 4GB Umm not the most speedy or expensive stuff but much better than your usual generic $121

HDD WD 640GB SATAII with 16mb cache. Awesome HDD and i've set it up as a RAID0 array so i have 1.16TB of storage ohh yeah $94 each

THERMALTAKE 550W Modular powersupply. Modular is so nice as i only need to plug in the cables i need. 550W is enough for the video card and the two HDD so perfect. $90

GECUBE RADEON HD 4870 512MB DDR5 RAM I wanted the Gigabyte one but they had no stock this was cheaper and it's all much of muchness unbeliveable card $340

SAMSUNG 21.6 Inch 2253LW LCD monitor hell yeah baby this is nice i was going to get the cheaper Acer monitor but they guy at the shop said to me, with all the fancy parts you are buying get the better monitor. He even said he made less profit on the samsung monitor but he said it was much better 2ms response time $260

This computer is freaking awesome. My last computer i made was over 3 years ago so it's nice to finally have something really fast again.

I've also done a 180. I used to be an AMD proccessor guy and a NVIDIA graphics guy.

Now i'm using a Intel CPU and a ATi graphics card. But looking at reveiws and benchmarks Intel is the way to go. And the 4870 is smashing NVIDIA.

I considered going Quad core but not enough games support it to make it worthwhile IMO, i'd rather have a super fast dual core than an average speed quad core. And until games start supporting quad core you might as well stick with the dual. Only a few games support quad core and it makes a big difference but for the next year or two i think the dual will be fine espicially since it has such a high clock speed.

I've just finished installing the following

Orange Box - max everything, including AA and antroscopic filtering at 1680x 1050 runs awesome never slows down

Crysis - Everything on High and 1680x1050 wow this is incredible framerate around 45 - 50 most of the time dips down to 25 - 30 when a lot is happening. But the eye candy is amazing.

Just installing Unreal Tournament 3 at the moment. Then i'll chuck on Bioshock and a few other games.

So all up today i spent about 1400 bucks and have a crazy computer. Very very happy. And if i just got the one HDD and used my old monitor i would of saved even more. It's a great time to buy a new pc.

Also anyone reccomend any good PC games? Just not RTS haven't really enjoyed one since Dark Reign.

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Hi mate welcome to the world of high end PC's besides the graphics card mine sounds somewhat similar to yours. If you want some answers to your questions check out my thread about 8 threads below this one its called "Just bought kick a$$ gaming computer what games should i get" well something like that....

heaps of great suggestions in there. Well you already have got one awesome one.... Crysis, great graphics!

The other ones I have recently got my hands on is "World in Conflict", Call of Duty 4 (MUST HAVE IF YOU LIKE CRYSIS), company of heroes.

heaps more in my thread but strongly recommend you now get Call of duty 4 if you liked crysis.

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