I never really buy top of the range...of course, I never have quite the fastest/best pc...I'm more the kind've guy that buys an upgrade or two only when a couple or more games I really want won't play, or something fucks up. Still being mainly a student, a gaming monster just isn't a viable option to me.
Although, I have to say that as nice a pc as 3G would throw together, I'm not sure I'd spend that much, simply because in a matter of a couple of months, what you spend 3 on, is now worth 2, likewise if you were to wait a little while, even though there WOULD be better pc's out by then, you'd essentially get it cheaper. In terms of graphics cards, the ball rolls even faster.
I'd only personally go up to about $1500AUD...but that (here) would buy a pretty damn good pc that would play anything on the market pretty much flawlessly...yes of course if I wanted to have the extreme highest of the high graphics/sound settings, I could spend more, but really...if a game doesn't run good enough generally I just wait for my next upgrade. $1G would suit me fine. I'm trying to work it so that I buy a new pc (or yknow massive upgrades) per year at this point...I don't mind being a little bit behind with certain titles, it's just my situation, and I'm cool with it...when I think about it, I don't mind at all, since when I DO get around to upgrading, then I have all the games I was unable to run last time lined up at cheaper prices, minus the hype...I can be truly selective, buy more games, and yeah, they'll pretty much run flawlessly by the time I get around to them.
Why, just now I can run quake 1 like a dream JK hAHahAhaHAHa....HL2 and call of duty era stuff runs ok, but that's pretty much as far as it goes.

I decided not to buy a new computer,cos I wanna build one.Does anyone know what the specs will be for bioshock?

If you're building from the ground up, looks like at this point one of the better graphics cards, and quite a bit of memory...those are the primary things when it comes to games. Memory upgrades are pretty cheap, graphics cards not so much so...I wouldn't ever reccomend getting THE best one (for reasons I stated in the post above yours) but for THAT game, sure looks like you'll need one of the better ones.

I believe that is correct. And at a very steep cost.About $599/$459

:eek:

pure insanity.

wait until these new games come out before spending that much money... They might just be pretty games that aren't fun at all. :) Besides they're bound to come out with a bunch of cards in all price ranges that can play the game.

I'm a complete hardware/gaming whore, so dropping money on upgrades is a fairly regular event. Bioshock is being made by the creators of System Shock, one of the greatest games of all time, so that one should be in the fairly safe basket. As for Crysis, the level of interactivity (everything destructible) promises to revolutionise gaming. You can actually re-enact the famous Predator minigun tree destruction scene!

Geddy: the specs for Bioshock will be pretty high. Basically X360 equivalent (X1900/7900s up) to make it run in full glory. A good dualcore cpu as well as 2gigs (or more if Vista-ing) of ram would definitely help too.

Here's what I plan on getting
CPU: Core 2 Duo E6400
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3
RAM: Crucial Ballistix 2x512MB DDR2 667
GFX: eVGA 8800GTS
PSU: Sunbeam NUUO 550w SLI
Case: Gigabyte 3D Aurora
HDD: Western Digital 320GB SATA II
Optix: NEC 7170A
Monitor:Acer AL1917WAbd Black 19" 5ms DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 I

Done any number crunching?...whats it gonna cost you?

Wouldn't it be worth it to spend the x-tra $150 on the GTX card. The GTS is suppose to be 20% slower.

my computer is for communications, information and, aahhh - acumulation.

even if i did still play games i far prefer the idea of an x-box or playstation rather than shit up my computer with some resource grubbing program.

i used to think otherwise ... but once you have a gaming system ...
naw .. leave my PC alone.

It's gonna cost me $1673.77.I guess I will ge t the gtx.Thanks.