New Gaming Rig Help Appreciated

[lilc64]

lilc64 said:

1337 Gamer said:

I would suggest you buy a single GTX 470 or a 480 rather than SLI two 460s. Some games have issues with SLI and crossfire. But thats just my suggestion.

I agree buy the single card solution never go SLI or crossfire. As far as cards I'd go ATi 5870 or Nvidia 480 if you can afford them. And its personal preference but 8 gigs of ram is a waste, I'd stick to 4gigs its more than enough to max all games at 1920x1600 AAmax AFmax.Cut some things and get the better video card i say. Also if you did go ati you need to look into another MB and what power supply you are using.

And before i just say that and leave it also depends on what resolution you are gaming at, thats where the GTX480 and GTX470 show a difference, if you doing anything lower than 1920x1200 you should stick with a GTX470 or the ATI counter part. They say since AMD owns ATI now you have better driver compatibility and things like that just throwing that out their.You also save a little on the MB since you dont need SLI dual PCI 2.0 or 2.1 slots, one will do fine.