Need some advice please.

[agbyrne]

Looking for some help on my new system - I play on playing BF3, MW3, SC2, WOW, CS
I have around $1300 to spend can some one see any improvements?
I only want a 20''/22'' monitor - will a 6950 be good for 1080P for high settings on new games (inc bf3)?
Worth the upgrade to the 6970?


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CoolerMaster CM Storm Scout
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ASUS P8P67-M PRO Motherboard B3
In stock $135.00 $135.00
Intel Core i5 2500K
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G.Skill Ripjaws F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL (2x2G) DDR3
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Corsair GS-600 Power Supply
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Sapphire Radeon HD6950 2GB Dirt3 Edition
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Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB HD103SJ
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Logitech Ultra Flat Keyboard
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Logitech G400 Optical Gaming Mouse
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BenQ GL2240 21.5in Widescreen LED Monitor
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[computernugget]

looks good, the 6950 is great for 1080p gaming. and so far DICE hasnt released anything on the specs yet. well nothing official. but im sure its gonna need a quad core to get the best frames though.

and i would rather get a z68 board instead, one feature i like about it is that you can use an ssd as a cache with your regular hard drives. that will surely make your system really fast.

but your build looks really solid.

 

[agbyrne]

Thanks,
I have a few hundred to spare,
Not with the upgrade to 6970?
8g ram or 4 is fine for gaming?

 

[Sky03]

Why not ugrade the monitor to 24"? Too big?

 

[tobensg]

I'd go with 8Gb of RAM as its so cheap at the moment. To be honest you're not going to see a huge difference between the 6950 and 6970.

 

[selayan]

Power supply is ok unless you want to run 2 cards at once later then you may want to upgrade that now too. And def get 8gb of ram if you are going to run windows 7 64 bit.