Quote from nikimere :

your post isn't very clear. do you mean 'no' current hardware will get you 80FPS or the hardware i have listed wont get me 80FPS. If its the later i'd be rather suprised if it didn't hit 80FPS. would i not be right in saying that?

I meant no current hardware can do 80FPS all the time with maxed out graphics. Look at the unofficial benchmark. It shows even the best machines drop to 40 FPS.

edit: Just saw they drop to 70 FPS

I guess with an FX-57 CPU you can get 80FPS.

Here is my best price/performance LfS PC:
AMD 3700+
5400RPM HDD for silent operation
Ati X800 Pro
512 MB RAM - I doubt you need more
Chaintech AV-710 7.1 Sound Card

Asus A8N-SLI, nForce4 SLI, Socket-939 ATX, S-ATA, GbLAN, Firewire,DDR,PCI-Ex16 (€129)

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ 2.2GHz Socket 939, 1MB, BOXED w/fan (€295)

Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2 DDR-DIMM 1024MB Kit w/two matched CMX512-3200C2 DIMMs (€136)

Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200GB SATA 8MB 7200RPM NCQ (€88)

Gainward GeForce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI-Express,"U/3400PCX XP ViVo" (€396)

LG DVD±RW burner, GSA-4167RBB, 16x, Dual, Black OEM (€50.8)

Antec Sonata II Miditower, Black w/450W PSU (€129)

Logitech Cordless Desktop LX700 (€79.98)
Total = (€1,303.78)

How does that grab you?
With a simple reshuffle of expenditure, you can get a much faster gaming machine for not much more money Oh, if you really want IDE instead of SATA, the IDE version of the drive is €5 cheaper

P.S It's all quoted from komplett.ie

Quote from Anarchi-H :

Asus A8N-SLI, nForce4 SLI, Socket-939 ATX, S-ATA, GbLAN, Firewire,DDR,PCI-Ex16 (€129)

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ 2.2GHz Socket 939, 1MB, BOXED w/fan (€295)

Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2 DDR-DIMM 1024MB Kit w/two matched CMX512-3200C2 DIMMs (€136)

Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200GB SATA 8MB 7200RPM NCQ (€88)

Gainward GeForce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI-Express,"U/3400PCX XP ViVo" (€396)

LG DVD±RW burner, GSA-4167RBB, 16x, Dual, Black OEM (€50.8)

Antec Sonata II Miditower, Black w/450W PSU (€129)

Logitech Cordless Desktop LX700 (€79.98)
Total = (€1,303.78)

How does that grab you?
With a simple reshuffle of expenditure, you can get a much faster gaming machine for not much more money Oh, if you really want IDE instead of SATA, the IDE version of the drive is €5 cheaper

P.S It's all quoted from komplett.ie

wow! nice one dude! thanks

Anytime

6600GT isnt worth the money anymore, since the 6800GTs got so damn cheep