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Desktop Gaming PC Building Help

by alinauman Aug 20, 2010 8:51PM PDT

Hi
I want to build a gaming desktop pc in which i can play dx11 games smoothly at highest settings with no or mnor lagging.Specs should be like at least a quad core processor, 4gb or more ram, a fast graphics card supporting dx11, pixel shader 5, 1Gb memory and support for SLI/Crossfire, 200 GB+ hard disk, an DVD-R/RW drive supporting dual layer dvd burning, a nice sound card, and a good motherboard. Windows 7 Ultimate 32/64 bit.The price should not be much high.

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Games I want to play

by alinauman Aug 20, 2010 9:13PM PDT

Crysis 2, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Prototype, Splinter Cell Conviction, Ghost Recon Future Soldier, Need For Speed Shift, Hot Pursuit 3, BattleField Bad Company 2 etc.

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price should not be much high

by Brechan Aug 22, 2010 7:22AM PDT

What's the price range you're looking at, this can affect what you're willing to upgrade or downgrade to ?

Do you want to run with NVidia or ATI graphics ?

Intel or AMD ?

Custom built or " off-the-shelf " ?

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