Looking to Replace

Bought Call of Duty 5: World at War. I've had all the challenges and weapon challenges completed for six months on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Ready to try something different...

Installed COD 5, and couldn't ever get it to work. Turns out my hand-me-down computer doesn't meet the system requirements for the game; specifically the video card. This was my grandparent’s computer until it died. Needed a new power supply. Been pretty faithful except for the motherboard has a channel (?) dead on it. Where my 2.0 GB memory sticks of RAM are plugged into, two work and two do not. Please forgive my newb.-ness when it comes to computer components. I really am not up on all the PC lingo, I just know how to use a computer. :-P


Although I can simply buy a video card to be able to play COD 5, I've decided to upgrade my whole machine. Actually, I am going to replace it. I've found an already built machine online that sounds up my alley as far as power and cost.

My question is: Does this sound like a pretty decent machine for price and power?

First, here is a list of basically what I do with my current machine on a day to day basis, and will continue to do when I get a new machine.

Call of Duty
iTunes
PodMaxx '09
Quicken 2004
Check e-mail
Surf the web, i.e. YouTube videos, research for school (I’m a Yahoo! kinda’ guy), etc.
Microsoft Office 2007
Freecell

Somewhat simple...And honestly my computer keeps up fairly well, but if I am going to upgrade, might as well upgrade to where I can FEEL the difference. Plus, a brand new machine'll keep me satisfied for five years.

Here is what I have now…

Microsoft Windows XP, Service Pack 3
Intel Pentium 4, 3.00 GHz
2.00 GB of RAM
Radeon X300
SB Live! 24-bit audio
Western Digital 1TB external hard-drive
Boston Acoustic speakers and subwoofer. Also, wired in my home stereo, Philips Magnavox four speaker stereo, to my computer. Hehe
SyncMaster 205BW monitor
Standard keyboard
Standard mouse

This is what the machine I am looking at online has:

AMD® Phenom II™ X4 Black Edition Quad Core (professionally overclocked to over 4.0GHz x 4)

Case color choice

System Lighting color choice

System Cooling: High-Performance Liquid Cooling

Power Supply: Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply

Graphics Processor: 2GB GDDR3 ATI® Radeon® HD 4850x2 with CrossFire™ Technology

Memory: 8 GB« Low Latency Dual Channel gaming DDR2 SDRAM at 1066MHz

Motherboard: AMD® 790GX/SB750 Motherboard

Operating System: Windows Vista® Ultimate 64bit with Service Pack 1

System Drive: Dual Drive High Performance Raid 0 Configuration - 2x500GB SATA 3Gb/s 7,200RPM 32MB Cache

Optical Drives : Single Drive Configuration - 22X Dual-Layer Burner with lightscribe (CD/ DVD±RW)

Internet: Single High Performance Gigabit Ethernet Port

Sound Card: High-Definition 7.1 Performance Audio

Keyboard: Standard Keyboard - Standard Keyboard

Mouse: Standard Mouse - Standard Optical 3-Button Mouse with Scroll Wheel

Optimization: Full system burn in, testing, and optimization for stability and benchmark performance, restore discs created

Warranty: 1-Year parts and labor on entire system....lifetime manufacturers warranty on key system components

optical drive BLURAY
hard drives 2x 1TB
digital tv tuner with remote, dvr direct to dvd, and vista tv sidebar gadget
55 in 1 media reader w/direct media to media swap
Hardware monitor for monitoring temps on cpu, gpu, and ambient temps, + control fan speeds

That’s for $2,400. I priced a similarly built Dell and Gateway desktops to this computer. Dell, with similar components is $5K and the Gateway, which doesn’t have nearly the goodies this one has, was $3K.

On a side note, I currently have a 6.0 Mbps down and 512 Kbps up Internet connection and am about to upgrade to the ‘Gold Package’ which is 10.0 Mbps down and 1.0 Mbps up for $10 more per month.

Thanks, ya’ll!