Gaming System, please review

DrGrass1987

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How does this look come across for you guys? He is hoping to be playing Crysis and L4D on full settings, and hopefully playing new games on it for the 3-4 years (not necessarily at full settings that whole time). Here are the parts i've looked.

We are dumb americans, dont hold that against us. Perferred site: Newegg.

GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard
XFX HD-487A-ZHFC Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit
Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
Antec Three Hundred Illusion Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W ATX12V / EPS12V
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Yorkfield 2.83GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor
OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)
XIGMATEK Dark Knight-S1283V 120mm Long Life Bearing CPU Cooler
Hanns·G HH-251HPB Black 24.6" 2ms HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor

Price: $1094.86 (his budget is $1100USD)

Any complaints? He is wanting to order this today...
 

fullmetall

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You've done some reviewing it seems,
It's a very nice LGA 775 setup, it will last you a while but, just for your information, lga 775 is a dead chip (meaning) there will be no upgradability. Once it's time to upgrade, will need basically a new setup.

Mabye a monitor change up is what all i'd do.
 

Helloworld_98

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LOL at line including 'dumb americans', you even made your point in the same line :)

back on subject though, I'd switch it to an AMD build on this budget, because it will be a bit more future proof and it'll be a bit cheaper while giving the same performance, then with the money you save, get a 4890 overthe 4870.