Well basically, i'm in the middle of building a new rig. It's going to be for relatively heavy gaming, but i'm not too fussed about maxing everything at 1920x1080 resolutions because i'm using a 26" 720p HDTV for playing my games on.
So far i've got the Case and PSU, as well as the Motherboard which arrived yesterday (M4A78T-e). I'm almost certain that i'm going to go for the new X2 550 for a CPU as it gives me just the right performance i need, and the unlocked multiplier (and great heat efficiency) should allow me to overclock as much as i need to.
The only thing left to decide on is the Graphics card which is going to finally rescue me from playing Crysis on this laptop at blindingly low quality . I'm in the UK so i've been looking at Scan as well as Overclockers as they have some suprisingly decent prices on the newer GPU's.
The only advantage an ATi card would have is that my mobo is limited to Crossfire only, so no dual GTX 260's in the future. However, i'm not looking to upgrade for a while, as i can't see many games pushing computers harder than Crysis until it's sequel comes out.
Anyway, around £140 max to spend, any advice ?![]()


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I think this may even come down to a coin toss, it seems that everybody (including me) has no real decisive reason for one or the other.
