Is this a good gaming computer?

Question

im was looking for a good gaming computer and this caught my eye. its a: cyberpower pc vgamer infinity xlc. the specs are:

CASE: ($20 off Mail-in Rebate) NEW! Apevia X-Jupiter Jr. 420 Watts

Case (S Type Black Color with Side-Panel 250mm UV LED Fan)

cpu: quad core intel q9550

3 extra fans

psu:900 watt apevia warlock series (never heard of it b4 but its cheap, i can upgrade if nessisary)

thermaltake big tyfoon cooling fan

MOTHERBOARD: (3-Way SLI & QX9650/9770 Support) EVGA nForce 780i SLI Mainboard FSB1333 DDR2 3 x PCIe x16 SATA RAID w/ USB2.0, IEEE1394, &7.1Audio

MEMORY: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)8GB (4x2GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory (Corsair or Major Brand)

3 9800gt 1 gig video cards :)

no monitor (i have one)

HARD DRIVE: Extreme Performance with Data Security (RAID-0+1) with 4 Identical Hard Drives (640GB (320GBx4) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)

Optical Drive: Sony Optiarc BR-5100S 2X Blu-Ray Player (Black Color)
Optical Drive 2: (Special Price) LG 20X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (BLACK COLOR)

SOUND: Creative Labs X-FI XtremeGamer 24-BIT PCI Sound Card
no speakers (i have some)

intel pro gigabyte network card

i already have a keyboard and mouse

thermal display with 3x fan controller

internal 12 in 1 media card reader

logitech quick cam chat webcam

i have a printer already

iee card and driver

azio high speed usb hub

1.44 floppy drive

and 64 bit home premium

this puts me at around 2600$ with shipping. i greatly appreciate any second opinions. so far, this is the best offer iv seen for a computer for around 2500$ if any1 has any suggestions for other computers for around 2500, plz tell me. thanks

Answer 1

Well of course it's good, but the hardware is only worth about $1,600. You're getting raped on the add-ons.

Answer 2

It sounds great except for one problem. Those video cards are NOT the best out there. Have you even considered Crossfire and using ATI's newest and best cards, the ATI 4870? This card can beat the pants off nVidias top of line card, the 280GTX.



It means, you would have to have a different mobo, because you cannot run Crossfire on an nVidia based chipset. Crossfire is the ATI equivalent of SLI. It's not ATI's fault that nVidia decided to not let anyone use SLI with another manufacturer's cards.



I would suggest looking FIRST at the ATI card I have suggested. Read some reviews and convince yourself that those nVidia cards are not as good as people think they are.



I would NOT buy anything with the name brand "SONY." They build some funny electronics! They are always very proprietary and tend not to run or recognize certain disks or software and will only run certain burning software and not others...I got burned myself on a Sony Dual Layer about 3 years ago and I will never EVER again, buy another Sony product. Not only that, but SONY loves to secretly build in Rootkits into their software that bury themselves into the Kernel of the operating system and compromise your security with it...not to mention trying to control what you can do with the hardware or not.



I would consider just about anyone else's hardware than SONY...try Pioneer or Liteon for example. Just don't get a SONY.



I don't know that RAID really is necessary for game playing myself. I think RAID is more of a kind of...well, ego issue. RAID was designed for mirroring backups for mission critical needs in servers...it wasn't designed as a critical feature of game playing. I don't know what value you are going to get out of RAID unless backing up games is mission critical to you. I could do just as well, by backing things up to a cheap DVD or CD's using some cheap backup software. I think you really need to consider the practicality of RAID configuration and whether you really have to have that in order to play the games you want to play. My suggestion is to get rid of RAID and instead, invest that money into something even better, like Western Digital's newest 10,000 RPM Viper hard disks. You will get equivalent performance or better.



NOPE! DDR2 800 ain't good enough if you want the best, go with at least DDR2 1033 Mhz memory which means you need another kind of motherboard.



My final opinion: I don't think this offer is as good as you think it is, you can do better...they are overcharging you for 3 videocards in my opinion, which to begin with are not the best ones...want to put into your computer a SONY device with rootkits installed and provide you with RAID disks which in my opinon is of limited real value to you for what you want to do.

Answer 3

all you need is

1 a good processor live core 2 duo or amd

2 a graphics card with 512 mb or higher

3 good hard drive with like 150gb

and a dvd cd drive thats all you really need

Answer 4

it will work, but thats WAYYYYYY too much money for that rig, and as for the OS, dont go 64 bit, just dont, i did once, and i can safely say it was hell for games. im looking for parts for a new computer myself, i know im still missing some stuff on the list, but this is what ive got so far. (for power supply, im gonna get a BFG probly)

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Answer 5

o common you know this is a good computer. there is just one issue...3 1/2 floppy are long gone out of the picture.

Answer 6

Holy....



Yes! That computer will run EVERYTHING perfectly! That is one awesome computer.



-Tom-