These 2 builds for gaming and editing whats better and will it run battlefield 3 and crysis?

Build 1 This is a slick case for a good price

http://www.xoxide.com/sentey-ss2-2220-secc-slim-tower-case.html



Good motherboard for the price to support and AM3+ cpu

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131758%26amp;Tpk=m5a88-m



AMD bulldozer FX-4100 Quad core processor, plenty of power for a great price

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103996



Nvidia 550ti graphics card supports 3D gaming and has CUDA technology for high graphics processing

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814134130



8gb G-Skills ripjaws ram

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814134130



750watt power supply for plenty of juice for this gaming machine

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817822010



2tb hard drive, dont want to run out of room for these games do we?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136891











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$600 Gaming PC System Components

Component Model Price

CPU Intel Core i5-2400 $190

CPU Cooler Intel Boxed Heat Sink and Fan $0

Motherboard MSI PH61A-P35 $70

RAM Wintec AMPO 4 GB (2 x 2 GB) DDR3-1333 3AMD31333-4G2K-NHR $25

Graphics Sapphire 100314-3L Radeon HD 6870 1 GB $180

Hard Drive Seagate Barracuda ST3500413AS 500 GB SATA 6Gb/s $50

Case Xigmatek Asgard II B/B CPC-T45UC-U01 $30

Power Antec EarthWatts Green EA430D 430 W $45

Optical Samsung 22x DVD Burner SATA Model SH-222AB $17

Total Price $607

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core鈥?br>


I would recommend to get 2x4Gb ram than the above, since you will be using it for animation.

CORSAIR XMS3 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Desktop Memory Model CMX8GX3M2A1333C9 $34.99 after mail-in rebate card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as鈥?br>


Added:

PSU price has dropped, better use 500 W 80+ certificate

Power: COOLER MASTER eXtreme Power Plus RS500-PCARD3-US 500W ATX12V v2.3 Power Supply $38.99 after mail-in rebate

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as鈥?br>






















For 500-600 $$$These 2 builds for gaming and editing whats better and will it run battlefield 3 and crysis?
both will run battlefield and crysis but you can play both games at high settings on 1st pc but not on second one, because second will give you medium graphics on these games.



So go for 1st pc.These 2 builds for gaming and editing whats better and will it run battlefield 3 and crysis?
I feel the first one is better.These 2 builds for gaming and editing whats better and will it run battlefield 3 and crysis?
Build 2 will be better.

A quad core Sandy Bridge Vs. a quad core Bulldozer isn't even a debate when you consider that the Octocore Bulldozer can barely equal an i5-2500. An i5-2400 will be substantially faster than a quad core Bulldozer.

The Radeon 6870 is noticeably faster than the GTX 550 ti. The 6870 is about equal to a non Ti GTX 560. And the GTX 550 ti competes with the Radeon 5770/6770.

I'd go with a better PSU though. Don't make the mistake of getting a cheap PSU. you get what you pay for. I'd opt for a 600w Corsair, Enermax, Silverstone, Antec, or XFX. 500 watts should be enough, but I'd give myself some headroom for future expansion and capacitor aging.


Neither build will max out BF3 or Crysis 2 (DX11 mode) at the industry standard 1080p res, but they will run them decently.

Build #1 really doesn't have enough GPU to handle the more demanding games, and it's CPU is quite frankly underwhelming. Basically Build #1 has no advantages over build #2 at all other than storage space.

Oh and I'll offer some proof to back up my claims unlike the other uniformed responders.

What it takes to max out BF3
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/batt鈥?/a> (Nvidia cards)
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/batt鈥?/a> (ATi cards)

Crysis 2 benchmarks
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crys鈥?/a>
I think the 1st one will perform better.
I have a similar PC. i don't have very detailed knowledge about this but I took advice from many techies, friends %26amp; did some research online before building my gaming PC.
they all said Nvidia is better, ati radeon heats up quickly. it wont be good if you want to play games continuosly for 6hours or more.

My Config:
Asus P8P67 pro
Coolermaster 430 black GLite
i7 processor
8GB Corsair RAM
1TB Western Digital Hdisk
Dual Nvidia 550Ti

Works really well,
plays Battlefield3, MW3, Crysis2 very smoothly in Ultrahigh settings