I am new to PC gaming and I gambled with making my PC myself.

Now here is the specifications:

Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 MHz

Intel mother board

3 GB RAM

500 GB HDD

XFX nVidia Geforce 8800 GT 512 GB RAM

19" LCD Screen

mouse + Keyboard + webcam + speakers + headphones .. etc.

I also got some games like:

Doom 3

Doom 3 extension

FEAR

FEAR extension

Halo

Bioshock

Quake 4

Plus I will be buying new games that will require heavey system requirements such as Crysis & Crysis 2 and Farcry2

So, I need you first to rate my computer 1-10 based on the current games I purchased

Secondly, rate it 1-10 based on coming new games and how it will perform in the future.

*Edit: It cost me $1,070 in total

How much did it run you?

It's a nice PC, all the games you have will run flawessly, even Bioshock. You will be able to run Crysis nicely on high settings if you reduce AA.

Thanks for your entry but I have no Idea whats an AA????

It's an extremely middle of the road set up by today's standards which should easily be built for under $1000, OS included and should allow you to play any current game at high settings at max resolution on a 19" screen at around 30fps, give or take a few frames. Any game meaning Crysis/Warhead/FarCry2.

Keep in mind that mid-range applies to current new build standards. That set up would have been considered mid-high range performance over a year ago.

2x2GB of faster RAM (DDR2-800 preferably DDR2-1066 if your MoBo supports it) probably would have been a better choice for gaming though. That's your current bottleneck.

AA (anti-aliasing) and AF (anisostropic filtering) are quality settings. The first decrease pixellisation and the second improve textures quality. Sorry for the basic english, i'm french.

A lot of people set these settings to the max and complain that games run slowly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisotropic_filtering

Anti-aliasing. It smooths out pixel stepping on object outlines as well as textures.

Turning up AA makes images look smoother, but requires processing power that effectively slows down your FPS rate.

So it's often a toss up between output resolution, FPS, quality, and processing effects (AA/AF). If you want to turn everything up, it means buying higher end hardware for games like Crysis.

Frame rate is arguably the most important since that determines playability for FPS games. Meaning, if it looks choppy, turn down (or off) AA first. Turn down output resolution next. You can always turn down quality, but it makes a lot of games look like older generation games (lower texture resolution, primitive lighting/particle effects, simpler physics, etc.) at lower settings.

You can run games like Bioshock with max everything (quality, AA, etc.) and still get a smooth FPS rate with your set up.

For those games you already bought your system is ok. For the future.. well, your gpu is already outdated but you could do sli. Cpu is fine, later you might want to oc it a bit. :)