Hey Yoda, nice to see you again!

OK, I've changed my RAM to this. I think it would be compatible. Comes out to about $860 with shipping costs, but have 20 dollars mail-in rebate.

Anyone know what brands to go for ATI? With Nvidia I know EVGA are the people to go with, but not so for ATI.

I chose AMD for this theoretical build because that processor is one of the best that they offer, and it's much cheaper than the Core i7s that Intel has been putting out. I would like to go with Intel, but the i7s tend to run a little higher. Price wars aside, Intel would be my choice, but...

The PSU and case were a package deal, so I got a bit of a bargain there. I don't think that it will be a problem.

I already have a 1TB hard drive that I was going to stick in there. I'd rather have too much space and not have to worry about buying a new drive. Games are getting really big, like 20 gigs, and soon enough, that 640 gigs will fill up. I don't care about the drives too much- I have two I can throw in should those break, and those are cheapo generic brand drives that have lasted a good three years.

OS-wise, there is no point in getting such a good processor/mobo combo if you don't take full advantage of them with your OS. I know it's not the advised platform, and to tell you the truth I would MUCH rather have XP, but the only reason I'd get Vista is because of Win7, which is supposed to be absolutely awesome.

The problem is that I would like to be able to play things at high settings. This current system runs pretty much everything out right now at high or medium, but things are starting to break and slow down and I would rather get a whole new system than have to deal with replacing components. I have already replaced a hard drive and a PSU on here.

I am comfortable with this price, because what with the price wars and the economy, parts are cheap as can be and this system would ordinarily cost much more. If I chose a smaller, cheaper system, I would have to do this again in about a year. There is no escaping the fact that there will always be new things to buy and game devs will take advantage of them. I would rather buy the best now and keep it for another three years than buy something midrange and keep it for one year.

Thanks for responding, though!

So, it appears my current system (at bottom) is showing its age. It runs really hot whenever I try to play something made in the last two years, and particle effects and the like aren't rendering well. So, I figure it's about time I start browsing for a new system.

I'm trying to go for something under $800, since I don't have that much money and I doubt I can get anyone else to contribute more than about that sum (birthday's coming up). I don't know anything about choosing parts, only what the most respected names are and which products get the most and best reviews

I've done some Newegging, and here's what I've come up with:

Mobo:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128392

Processor:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103649

RAM:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184

Video:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102801

Case and PSU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.201633

HD:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136319

DVD:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151171

OS:
Vista Home Premium x64

This comes to $790.

So, my questions- is this a good build? Is this worth 800 dollars? Is this enough to play all games out now and for at least a few years? Do you have any suggestions about the parts I've selected? I've heard there are new ATI cards coming out- should I wait for these?

please don't kill me i know next to nothing about system building and have probably chosen parts that will melt when they come together or have forgotten some critical component

Trine's a fun little medieval platformer. It looks great, and is pretty fun to play. It's worth a try even if you don't usually like platformers.

Download the demo here.

Moved topic.

Hmm? What is this for?

Did you get a CoD4 server too?

NF to the rescue

What provider are you looking at? I can list you some well-reputed ones

I'd be interested in this, even though I never play TF2 (I have server joining issues).

OK. Your basic TF2 server is a dollar a slot, max 32. Figure out how many slots you want and I can figure out whether or not I can pay it for a month or so. Beyond that, alternative financing would be required.

It was, even though I got owned

Welcome!

And I wouldn't get your hopes up for it to come out on Mac. It's almost certain that it won't.

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Looks nice, looking forward to it!

Maybe you could try setting the AddUnitClass numbers to 0, but keep the SetUnitCount field at whatever it's normally at?

Just a suggestion.

As I remember, ELD conceded a map to GF because of server problems. As such, GF got the highest score anyone had ever gotten against ELD.

iPro was a failed idea, trying to make a team that could play PC clans and win. They didn't suceed, primarily because all of them were not used to playing with each other.