Another crying for help building a PC thread. Enter please :)

[Squilliam]

eggs2see said:

Squilliam said:
Thanks Slimebeast @ Eggs 2 see I listed it as 2GB *2 which is 4GB lol.

Oooo my bad i missed that, apologies squilliam.  I think everyone here is in agreeance on most things though, and thats go with AMD phenom quad.  Oh and don't skimp on a power supply and case because as hsrob said, it's essentially the core.  I would still strongly suggest a good motherboard like the one i listed and a 5770 with the option to crossfire another 5770 later... no dx11 though with a 5770 so you may just want to get a whole new card down the track.

Unfortunately anything substantially better than a 5770 at the moment and you pay SUBSTANTIALLY more too.

I suspect that a motherboard like that may very well be overkill. What extra capabilities does one get for spending an extra 130% over top of getting 4 ram slots, a PCI-E slot and a decent quantity of USB and SATA ports?

In any case with lower resolution comes a reduced need to spend money on the graphics card. Whilst CPUs scale to the software, GPUs scale to both software and the number of pixels they have to render the graphics for.