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[red_devil]

Um so before you say so, no i'm not building my own rig. I don't have the time, but i have the money. So let's get wild. Where can i get a gaming rig that will run games like MW2, Left for Dead 2, BioWare 2, etc. at top fps and res? If Alienware had a Korean division i would buy one. I'm looking for that high quality. None of these PC방 POS systems with their 256MB cards, loud fan integrated sound/video boards.

Notes:
- liquid cooling?
- dual SLi? (is it worth it?) Direct X 11 capable?
- Intel not AMD
- Windows 7
- probably won't OC (at least not out of the box)
- i have monitor

[hanguker]

I'll build you one, 5 Million Won.

Super-mega whatever. It will play any game.

I'll even label it Alien2!

[cubanlord]

Dude....$1,300 USD will build you what I have, maybe even a little stronger. Right now, my computer eats through L4D2, Crysis, etc.

It's a beast

Intel Core i7 920 (boy it runs hot)
6 gigs of pc16000 DDR3 RAM
The intel motherboard for the i7
Geforce 280GTX

A monster power supply and a 50,000 won case.

[eamo]

Pretty simple request really....

Core i7 920

Any X58 mobo

HD5870...........don't bother spending on any SLI/Crossfire setup.....the expense and bother isn't worth the few extra FPS...............

Only the ATI HD5000 series supports DX11 right now. Nvidia are well behind the game at the moment. They do have something coming up soon called 'Fermi', which looks impressive on paper, but that's at least a couple of months away. Anyway, rumor is that the HD5870 will still eat it up. Which has led to the other rumor that Nvidia basically have nothing and might stop competing with ATI in the discreet GPU market.......who knows.

Any quality 600w-ish PSU.

6GB of the fastest DDR3 RAM your mobo can support.

That rig will get you over the magic 30 FPS in Crysis, the only game around that will even test that rig.

It will go through the other games you mention like butter.

Without a monitor, you could probably do it for 1.5mill......

...add the cost of W7.......if of course you want to pay for it!!

[OneWayTraffic]

What they said. Just pop down to Yongsan with a spec sheet and get them to build the closest they can get to it. You should get pretty high end, though not real extreme. If you really want the best, just pay Cubanlord, Demo or one of the other PC guys on here 100k to build you a rig.

[Demophobe]

Everything depends on the monitor.

Let us know what "full res" means to you, and we can fill in the blanks easily. I mean, getting a 5xxx series card on a 22" monitor is a total waste. Heck, a 4870 will give you "full res", 8xAA and 16x AF. It won't give you DX11, but neither will the devs for at least a year.

[spanky1off]

dude i'll be building a system for myself early 2010 so i researched this alot and heres what ive found

for gaming u should go with

the new core i7-820 or i7-750 http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/17545/6
about $330 or $230 respectively off danawa.com here

u will need a P55 socket 1156 motherboard to go with this...generally motherboards make little if any difference to gaming performace so go for one with a feature set u want. e.g. e-sata dual gigabyt lan etc
MSI.Gigabyte.Asus... all respected brands.u can probably get a decent spec one for 200 bucks (tho u may want to upgrade when sata 6gb/s and usb 3 comes out. what im waiting for basically).

if money is no object the new AMD Radeons 5870 or 5850 are the fastest single card solutions out there but imho not worth it as direct 11 support is very very sparse now and will be for the foreseeable future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_DirectX_11_support

my advice would be go with a slightly older 4870 ($200) for less than half price of 5850 and almost 1/3 price of 5870 but this thing flies like shit off a shovel. then simply upgrade when the early adopter premiums come down next year or when competition with Nvidia heats up. i just dont think its worth doing overkill just for 1 game (crysis).

for other performance compenents go for a western digital caviar black hard drive for speedier loading times. 4-8gb ram ddr3 1600Mhz.

[hugekebab]

[eamo]

[red_devil]

[eamo]

The technet is littered with reviews on the HD5850/5870.....

..........here's one with 3Dmark vantage scores and lots of other Nvidia/ATI card benchmarks.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-5850-review-crossfire/1

[Demophobe]

[red_devil]

Budget is 1.5M - 2.0M KRW. What would be the best system build for that? I think often overlooked is cooling, sound, and noise levels. Have at it.

[misher]

I'm actually thinking about a gaming rig soon. Red Devil, I have the same monitor as you. Would it do a crazy rig justice with top end games? Or would I need a better monitor???????

[red_devil]