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Lookin at my Gucci, its about that Time!....NEW PC, lets go Gurus!

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The GTX 280 is the fastest of the three cards recommended, the GTX 295 is the current king. For mice, the best imo are the logitech g9 and razor copperhead, can't go wrong with either. If you can afford a quadcore, a q9550 is great performance and overclockability for the price, if not, an E8400 or 8500/8600 is great for dual core overclocking. The UD3 motherboards from Gigabyte are better than the Asus, and if you want a cheap heatsink that performs well get a vendetta 2 or xigmatek s1283. Glhf, Gucci Gucci.
 
Ok, I'll chime in...Sounds like you're pretty close to pulling the trigger & getting this build done...Plenty of great suggestions have already been made...So here's my .02...

You'll do fine with either a GTX 260 or 280...BF2 is pretty much the only game I play & both of my Rigs run the game like butter & max out at 100 FPS no problem...The 260 & 280 will at the very least match my cards in CF & SLI, & probably beat them in performance...I have no complaints whatsoever about my 8400's & I have both OC'd to 4 Ghz on air...Keep in mind, you'll need a good mobo to do that, so don't skimp on that (I only use ASUS MB's)...

I'm a RAM whore, so I recommend a bare minimum of 4 gigs...If you decide to go with Vista 64, you can go with 8 GB & it won't destroy your wallet...Personally, I have absolutely no interest in ever going back to XP, so my recommendation is Vista 64...One thing you need to know in case you do with Vista 64 is you need to run BF2 as Administrator & then run it in XP Mode...This is actually very simple to do...

So the breakdown is this...


CPU: E8400
RAM: 4 - 8 GB (DDR2 is MUCH less than DDR3 & DDR3 certainly isn't worth the extra coin)
OS: Vista 64
VGA Card: GTX 260 or 280 (Both will work great with BF2) Sidebar: If you don't want to need to upgrade for a long time & you can afford it, go with the GTX 295...
Motherboard: ASUS, EVGA & Gigabyte all make solid boards, but my preference has always been ASUS



Send me a PM if you have more specific questions & you aren't seeing the answers in this discussion...I'd be glad to help...
 
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