Question for the computer-savvie, price and rate that pc

[Ziggy Stardust]

So I bought a new pc. Using the money my ex company gave me to bugger off, and not having to use it to bridge a no-income gap. Also the gf wanted a pc to browse the web, but couldný afford one, she got the oldie which does the interweb fine, I gots a game pc and I stayed well within budget.

Now, since I already bought it, keep in mind that it's no use telling me I got the wrong processor, because I don't really care. I just wanted to play Shogun on acceptable settings. On medium and even low the old one still stuttered.
The reason I'm asking is that I was aiming for a pc that was mid-range, nothing too brutal. Graphics aren't that important to me. Thing is, it plays Shogun on full settings (which by the way is actually rather pretty ambiancilicious) without blinking. Considering this, in an act of lunacy, because I walked past a shop which had it, I bought Crysis 2. Set it too the highest settings as well and expected this poor budget pc to cry Uncle! Nope, still as smooth as a babbies bum. So I'm thinking: what's the catch here? Is it longeivity?

Anyway, here's the specs. Which by the way is all smurf to me:

- Simplest casing I could find
- Power: Sharkoon Rush Power 600 Watt (Sharkoon? Who makes these things? Dragonball Z?)
- Board: Biostar H55A+ (ATX, S-1156, DDR3)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-760 (S-1156) BOX
- Mem: DDR3 8Gb 1333Mhz CL9 4kit
- Video: EVGA GeForce GTX460 1024Mb GDDR5 (Super Clocked)
- Drive: Samsung HD103SJ 1000Gb 7200RPM SATA II 32Mb cache
- Optical: NEC AD-7260S SATA black
- Windows 7 Home Premium edition 64-Bit NL OEM

So, what would you pay for this, and how would you rate it?

By the way, guestimates will do fine, no need for exact figures

[SuperJay]

Originally Posted by Ziggy Stardust

(Sharkoon? Who makes these things? Dragonball Z?)

Only if it goes over 9000!

And looking at those specs, it seems like you just managed to get yourself a good deal. I'm not a hardware expert these days (haven't bought a PC in 6 years) but everything there looks decent, no catch that I can see. I could be wrong though, it happened once before.

[Ziggy Stardust]

That's at least comforting to know.

Old pc was 6-7 years old as well.

[illram]

You're upper mid range with that I'd say. Processor and video card are the easiest things to compare. Check out any listing of these cards and you will have an idea where you stack up.

Mobo is the thing that will make or break longevity of your build and someone here can correct me if I am wrong but I believe with an 1156's the highest you can go is the i7 line.

[tokala]

Originally Posted by Ziggy Stardust

I bought Crysis 2. Set it too the highest settings as well and expected this poor budget pc to cry Uncle! Nope, still as smooth as a babbies bum. So I'm thinking: what's the catch here? Is it longeivity?

The catch is the rise of the consoles.
Crysis 2 is less demanding than Crysis 1, and in general the performance requirements of games are almost stagnating since a few years, thanks to Xbox360 and PS3.
But marketing keeps hammering at us that only the latest and greatest is good enough for the serious gamer
So these days upper mid-range is good enough for anything you throw at it maxed out, unless you want to play on a triple-monitor setup

I was flabbergasted when a leading german hardware site recently defined "entry level" gaming cards as being able to run most games comfortably at maximum quality at up to 1680x1050.

Yours isn't a "budget" gaming PS, it's close to a "maximum sensible" gaming PC. Anything "more" would have been disproportionally more expensive (apart from maybe a Sandy Bridge board and CPU).
The only slightly suspicious part is the PSU.
It won't have problems with games until after the next console generation gets serious market penetration.

[Ziggy Stardust]

Thanks guys.

Explains the performance I got from it.

[cardgame]

I'm really not so sure about recent prices but I'd say around $900-1000