I want to build myself a computer for gaming, and I realize that computers are becoming obsolete quicker and quicker these days. Games like Crysis are coming out and nobody can play them with what they thought to be a "High Performance Machine" last year. These are the specs of the computer I want to build and I want opinions on how long you think this system will be great before it becomes the next Pentium 3 with 64MB of RAM. CPU:Intel Quad core 2.4 Ghz Memory: 8Gigs of RAM 800Mhz Harddrive: 500Gigs Graphics: 2x Nvidia Geforce 9800 512Mb in SLI OS: Windows Vista Ultimate x64 What do you think. I was also wondering if I should get a faster clock speed Dual Core. Thanks
If you're worried about your PC being obsolete, a Quad core will last you far longer than a Dual core I assure you. Your best off with the Q6600. 8GB of RAM is utterly pointless right now and will be for a long time, but the rest of it I'm sure you'll use. The weak point will probably be the graphics.
When does it lose it's high performance? The moment you install windows on it Give it 6 months and you will probably need to be upgrading something.
