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[Seox]

Hello,

I've been looking at having a new PC built for me to play this, blacklight retribution and a handful of other games that I play. I figured I'd ask here as I have little knowledge of this sort of thing and know there are many who do. I don't feel comfortable building a PC myself, and would rather use a site that allows you to specify a configuration, like cyberpowerpc, etc.

All I'm really looking for are 40+ frames on max settings for these games and respectable performance otherwise with an SSD. I've come up with this:

• CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-3570K 3.40 GHz 6MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1155 (All Venom OC Certified) [-114]
  
• HDD: 240 GB Intel 520 Series SATA-III 6.0Gb/s - 550 MB/s Read & 520 MB/s Write [+179] (Single Drive)
  
• MEMORY: 8GB (4GBx2) DDR3/2133MHz Dual Channel Memory [+29] (Corsair or Major Brand)
  
• MOTHERBOARD: * [CrossFireX/SLI] ASUS P8Z77-V LK Intel Z77 Chipset DDR3 ATX Mainboard w/ IRST, Lucid Virtu MVP, 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, 3x PCIe x16 (2 Gen3, 1 Gen2), 2 PCie x1 & 2 PCI (Extreme OC Certified) [+33]
  
• SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
  
• VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB 16X PCIe 3.0 Video Card [+122] (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA)

For $1425. I already have mouse/keyboard/monitor

I chose a 240gb SSD as my main drive and a 1TB "data drive" - doesn't this mean that I will have SSD performance when it comes to booting and anything on the SSD? I was thinking I could swap games between the data drive and SSD to get the best load times for the game I am playing in a given month or so.

Anyways, I know very little about this sort of thing and would appreciate any advice that could be offered. Thanks a ton!

[Ialti]

Hm. Well, honestly? If you shop around a bit for parts and so on you can get a better deal. If money's not that big of an object I would suggest getting an i7 ivy bridge instead of the i5, and if it is I would suggest getting a friend who knows building to help you out and going the newegg route. On graphics you're at the latest generation of Nvidia stuff, I'm a Radeon fan myself--more bang for my buck and crossfire is cheaper.

Make sure your power supply is up to s'nuff. Especially if you're planning to use this machine later on and think about maybe putting in an SLI'd video card.

And I would personally recommend Windows 7 over the newer OS.