System Requirements

[Tragik]

My 900 has plenty of room for my 8800 GTS video card.

[Serendipity]

My 900 has plenty of room for my 8800 GTS video card.

Could it handle two in sli w/ room to spare? The main thing im looking for in a case is airflow and spaciousness.

-Ser

[Shirow]

My 900 has plenty of room for my 8800 GTS video card.

Could it handle two in sli w/ room to spare? The main thing im looking for in a case is airflow and spaciousness.

-Ser

Coolermaster Stacker

[Serendipity]

Coolermaster Stacker

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119103

That one? Hella expensive if it is. But then again, I'll be saving some $$ by not purchasing the ASUS Striker.....

Hm.

-Ser

[Shirow]

Coolermaster Stacker

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119103

That one? Hella expensive if it is. But then again, I'll be saving some $$ by not purchasing the ASUS Striker.....

Hm.

-Ser

It fits the airflow and spaciousness requirement :p

I think the 900 would work tho

[Bizzah]

Depends on how good you want it to look. I'm going to be upgrading at the beginning of August to the following:

Intel Q6600/E6750
4GB DDR800
Geforce 8800 GTS 640mb
Windows Vista

This setup should allow DX10 mode on any of these games at fairly high settings. Your current box is definitely lacking for any of these games. I can post a Newegg wishlist for the individual parts if it's of any interest - at the beginning of August, this kind of box should be buildable for ~$1500.

I just upgraded last month to the following:

Intel Core2Duo 6420 (slightly lower clock, for MB of cache, very nice and affordable)
2gigs PC6400 DDR2
GeForce 8800 GTS 320mb
Windows XP Pro.

Plus a gigabyte brand motherboard of some model I cant remember right now...

The whole upgrade cost me like $850 (I bought a DVD burner and power supply also, forgot about those) and has totally changed the way I look at games, Frame-rate wise and graphically...  its crazy.

add on Vista and i will be DX10 compliant but for now, Im not ready to pull the trigger on Vista, too many reported issues.  Maybe when the first service pack comes out or some new DX10 games is released that I cant live without... you never know.

[Shirow]

So, I finally got all my parts and built my new PC last night.

Let me just say.. the 8800GTX is the most ridiculous card I've ever had the pleasure of owning.

So big I had to remove a hard drive bay to make it fit? Check.
Eat up every single PCI-E connector my power supply has? Check.
Run anything I throw at it at 1680x1050 with every freakin slider maxed at 60fps? CHECK!

[Slay]

So, I finally got all my parts and built my new PC last night.

Let me just say.. the 8800GTX is the most ridiculous card I've ever had the pleasure of owning.

So big I had to remove a hard drive bay to make it fit? Check.
Eat up every single PCI-E connector my power supply has? Check.
Run anything I throw at it at 1680x1050 with every freakin slider maxed at 60fps? CHECK!

Nice man. Lets play some BF or something.

[Shirow]

So, I finally got all my parts and built my new PC last night.

Let me just say.. the 8800GTX is the most ridiculous card I've ever had the pleasure of owning.

So big I had to remove a hard drive bay to make it fit? Check.
Eat up every single PCI-E connector my power supply has? Check.
Run anything I throw at it at 1680x1050 with every freakin slider maxed at 60fps? CHECK!

Nice man. Lets play some BF or something.

I'm still hoping Quake Wars will be worth playing. Trying to get some STALKER time in right now.

[Bizzah]

So, I finally got all my parts and built my new PC last night.

Let me just say.. the 8800GTX is the most ridiculous card I've ever had the pleasure of owning.

So big I had to remove a hard drive bay to make it fit? Check.
Eat up every single PCI-E connector my power supply has? Check.
Run anything I throw at it at 1680x1050 with every freakin slider maxed at 60fps? CHECK!

Nice man. Lets play some BF or something.

I'm still hoping Quake Wars will be worth playing. Trying to get some STALKER time in right now.

I'm affraid Quake Wars won't take off - for all the developers talk about enforcing team play - i read that they arent including an in-game VOIP system...

Even COUNTERSTRIKE has in-game VOIP.  Games like this can't be really team-played without voice.

[Thrawn]

Eh, that will just make us own that much harder if we can all play together on a team while on Vent against a bunch of random nubs.

Of course...then again, it would probably make us own them so hard it would get boring fast.

[Shirow]

I never use in-game VOIP. So I don't really care about that :p

[Slay]

These days, everyone knows someone with a TS or Vent server/guild.... well, thats generalizing but its about 30x as popular as it was like 6 years ago.

[Bizzah]

yeah, but having 1/3 of a 12 man team organized because 3 or 4 people are on TS inst the same thing as barking out orders to an entire team.  In-game VOIP doesn't drag down performance any worse than TS and its accessible to all players, which I think is better.

Sure, TS will work for organizing a couple folks we know, but if its 20 on 20 and 3 of us are talking to each other we'll lack effectiveness...thats all im saying.

[Shirow]

I've never found playing with random pickups to be worth a shit, even with in game VOIP