Gaming PC Specs

[Veritas77]

Hello,
Which specs would be better for playing games at high settings:
1. -i7 CPU 3.2Ghz
-12GB RAM DDR3...6 to 8 is good
- nVidia GTX 275 (2x)...you can get a 560 or something like that.
-3TB hard drive

or 2.i7 920, 2.8 ghz
12 gb ddr3-1600
nvidia gtx 560 ti
1.5 TB hard drive (main) seagate caviar 7200 rpm, sata2

 

[ko888]

What CPU is being used in the first system configuration? Is it a i7-960 or i7-965 Extreme Edition or i7-970 or i7-...?

Are these pre-configured systems? If they are then post some links to them.

 

[iceclock]

id agree, on going with the sandy bridge cpus, 2500k+ or 2600k+ the real advantage with the 2600k would be to make video encoding faster, but the 2500k is already mighty fast for that and gaming and all u can really want to do, and wont have performance issues with any of those 2 processors, and investing in a socket 1156 or 1366 at this point seems pointless , since u can get alot bang for ur bucks with the sandy bridge lineup

 

[kajabla]

Also, for gaming the 560 will definitely be the bottleneck with high-end processors like all your choices. But definitely go Sandy Bridge.