Author Topic: Friend needs help buying a gaming computer.  (Read 1847 times)

My friend is considering to buy a CyberPower Black Pearl with these customizations I'm not much of a computer guy so i thought some of you could help him-

*Thermaltake Level 10GTS Mid Tower Gaming Case w/ EasySwap HDD bays, 2x Front USB 3.0 Ports, & Headset HolderBlack Color

*NZXT Internal USB 6-PORT Expansion Module

*Maximum 120MM Case Cooling Fans

*Intel® Core™ i7-3970X Extreme Edition Six-Core 3.50 GHz 15MB Intel Smart Cache LGA2011

*No overclocking

*Asetek 510LC Liquid Cooling System 120MM Radiator & Fan (Enhanced Cooling Performance + Extreme Silent at 20dBA) (Single Enermax Enlobal Silent High Performance 120MM Fan)

*Standard Coolant

*(SLI/CrossFireX Support) MSI X79A-GD45 Plus Intel X79 Chipset Quad Channel DDR3 ATX Mainboard w/ Winki 3, OC Genie II, 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, 3 Gen3 PCIe X16 & 4 PCIe X1

*64GB (8GBx8) DDR3/1600MHz Quad Channel Memory [Back-To-School Mega Sales ADATA XPG V2

*Video Card 1 AMD Radeon HD 7750 2GB 16X PCIe 3.0 Video Card [Back-To-School Mega Sales - Free upgrade from Radeon 6670 1GB Video]Major Brand Powered by AMD

*Video Card 2 AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB 16X PCIe 3.0 Video Card

*800 Watts - Standard 80 Plus Certified Power Supply - SLI/CrossFireX Ready

*Hard Drive 2TB (2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDDSingle Drive

*1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD  w/ 1TB x 2 (1TB Capacity) Raid 1 High Performance with Data Security

*Vigor iSURF II Hard Disk Drive Cooling System (3 x Systems)

*External Hard drive Thermaltake BlacX Duet Dual Hard Drives Docking Station

*USB 2.0 Portable Flash Drive4GB

*24X Double Layer Dual Format DVD+-R/+-RW + CD-R/RW Drive (BLACK)

*HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO

ACCESSORIES

*32" Widescreen 1920x1080 Sceptre E325BV-FMDU LCD HDTV w/ Built-in Speakers, VGA & HDMI-Input (2 Monitors)

*(Keyboard & Mouse Combo) Razer Cyclosa Gaming Keyboard & Abyssus Gaming Mouse

*Tt eSports Dasher Gaming Pad

*Corsair Vengeance 1500 Gaming Headset

*OPTI-UPS VS575CB 575VA/345W 6 Outlet Uninterruptible Power Supply

*Connectland USB 2.0 HUB High Speed HUB

It all adds to a total of $3728. Thoughts and/or suggestions?

Intel graphic cards do not support shadows and shaders.

Intel graphic cards do not support shadows and shaders.
Ok, but he wants to play other games such as DayZ Battlefield 3 Minecraft and any of the new games coming out this year. Would this computer be good for those?

That computer would be very fast, but I'd buy a great graphics card to go with it. How much is he willing to spend on the graphics card, since that determines plenty about game play performance?