PHJF wrote on Jul 28, 2010, 17:47:
Do *NNNOOTTT* get a GTX 465. They were a failed attempt at reducing the price of the Fermi, an attempt remedied by the 460. Either get a 460 or a 470. Or an ATI.

And again, that system is just simply overpriced. The peripherals are junk and there isn't even a monitor. You're pairing a decent $200 motherboard and a very expensive $550 processor (which is unnecessarily high-end, an i7-930 costs half as much) with a bunch of crap.

Mr. Tact wrote on Jul 28, 2010, 11:04:
Format looks familiar, ibuypower? Have you purchased from them before?

mag wrote on Jul 27, 2010, 21:45:
Hah. The last Blizzard RTS I really truly enjoyed playing was WC2, but I was 13 and easily impressed.

kxmode wrote on Jul 28, 2010, 02:23:

PHJF wrote on Jul 28, 2010, 01:51:
It's been proven time and time again that a single, powerful card will outperform two lesser cards. SLI is exclusively useful to people who have a top-end card and want more juice.

The GTX460 for $200 is actually the first great bang-for-buck card nvidia have put out in a long time (probably since the 7600GT). Unless you are really into high-end performance, a single should be fine. Just be sure you get the 1GB version (not because it has more memory but because it has more pixel pipelines). From what I've read they overclock extremely well, even with stock cooling.

That system seems extremely expensive given the brand of parts being used. I've never heard of Xtreme Gear before, and when they list a part as "major brand" you should be extremely wary. Also, water cooling systems are best ignored unless you are a power user. Most boxed setups will provide little to no advantage to a great air setup but are much noisier, more expensive and harder to maintain. That particular unit is, again, from an obscure company, to boot.

All in all I'd say give that system a wide berth.

Thank you PHJF! I played around the configurator, and dropped the price by $283. Stuff in green changed...

[specs]

Price: $1,646.00

PHJF wrote on Jul 28, 2010, 01:51:
It's been proven time and time again that a single, powerful card will outperform two lesser cards. SLI is exclusively useful to people who have a top-end card and want more juice.

The GTX460 for $200 is actually the first great bang-for-buck card nvidia have put out in a long time (probably since the 7600GT). Unless you are really into high-end performance, a single should be fine. Just be sure you get the 1GB version (not because it has more memory but because it has more pixel pipelines). From what I've read they overclock extremely well, even with stock cooling.

That system seems extremely expensive given the brand of parts being used. I've never heard of Xtreme Gear before, and when they list a part as "major brand" you should be extremely wary. Also, water cooling systems are best ignored unless you are a power user. Most boxed setups will provide little to no advantage to a great air setup but are much noisier, more expensive and harder to maintain. That particular unit is, again, from an obscure company, to boot.

All in all I'd say give that system a wide berth.

jimnms wrote on Jul 27, 2010, 22:52:
NewEgg is having a sale on select Nvidia cards. I'm currently running a GTX 260 896MB (192 Cores), that will be 2 years old next month. It's not struggling to play any games right now since the rest of my system is practically new (built back in November), but I haven't played any "new" games on it either. For $270 the GTX 470 seems like a pretty damn good deal, plus it comes with a free download code for Metro 2033 (hopefully through Steam) and a $20 MiR. I looked at the specs of the GTX 480, but it doesn't have much more to it to justify nearly 2x the price. I'm talking to myself to decide if I want > need.

I guess thats the major draw towards Blizzard's RTSes , especially in competitive environments. I used to play AOE/AOM/Empire Earth series once in a while but the first game that really hooked me to the RTS genre was Warcraft 3 (and to a lesser extent, the original SC).

mag wrote on Jul 27, 2010, 12:13:
I'm not even terrible at RTS games, but I suck at Blizzard's RTS games. They're more strongly about micromanagement than any other RTS series I've tried. It's more like they're action games where you control twenty guys than a strategy game.

Cutter wrote on Jul 27, 2010, 13:00:
I'd still like to see the game however so I hope they do a demo at some point.