It's been 3 years since my last major upgrade. Ya, I'm amazed too. I just beat BF3, and I recently beat and played BF2, MW3, SC2 on my specs below. I'm also in the D3 beta...which I have the minimum specs for.
Current specs are in my sig and here's the Q&A, followed by what I'm looking at getting.
Q&A:
1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? $700~ all inclusive
3) Which country do you live in? Charleston, SC
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, Mobo, GPU
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Case (decent airflow), misc HDs for storage, DVD Rom, Crucial Vortex 3 120GB SSD for OS and games
6) Will you be overclocking? No, or very little
7) What is the max resolution of your monitor? What size is it? 20" 1680x1050
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Sometimes between now and the end of January
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? USB 3.0, SATA 6Gb/s, eSATA, onboard audio
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? Yes, Win7 64-bit Ultimate
What I'm looking at:
1) CPU: AMD FX-6100 Zambezi 3.3GHz Socket AM3+ 95W
2) RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
3) Mobo: ASUS M5A78L-M LX AM3+ AMD 760G Micro ATX
4) GPU: EVGA 01G-P3-1561-AR GeForce GTX 560 Ti FPB (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16
5) PSU: OCZ ZT Series 750W Fully-Modular 80PLUS
Total: $652.95
Current specs are in my sig and here's the Q&A, followed by what I'm looking at getting.
Q&A:
1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? $700~ all inclusive
3) Which country do you live in? Charleston, SC
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, Mobo, GPU
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Case (decent airflow), misc HDs for storage, DVD Rom, Crucial Vortex 3 120GB SSD for OS and games
6) Will you be overclocking? No, or very little
7) What is the max resolution of your monitor? What size is it? 20" 1680x1050
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Sometimes between now and the end of January
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? USB 3.0, SATA 6Gb/s, eSATA, onboard audio
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? Yes, Win7 64-bit Ultimate
What I'm looking at:
1) CPU: AMD FX-6100 Zambezi 3.3GHz Socket AM3+ 95W
2) RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
3) Mobo: ASUS M5A78L-M LX AM3+ AMD 760G Micro ATX
4) GPU: EVGA 01G-P3-1561-AR GeForce GTX 560 Ti FPB (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16
5) PSU: OCZ ZT Series 750W Fully-Modular 80PLUS
Total: $652.95