What games do you guys suggest i should start off with to test it out?

My list of games

if you want to push it ... Metro or Witcher ... or Battlefield 3

Holy shit you have a lot of games. Just put them all on high?

EDIT: Also, how come you haven't even played 3/4 of them?

Hot dayumn, sounds like some powerful kind a rig you got there, son. That thing got a Hemi?

Metro 2033.

Gee, you have a lot of games...

@believer258: could be worse ... could me my list ... I have a problem :(

Fallout 3 and Skyrim with all the high end graphics mods are the best looking games IMO

Oh and BF3 64player conquest MAXED plus Sleeping Dogs is sharp.

I want details! What'd you buy?

Metro, Shogun 2 and Hard Reset are probably the most demanding games in your library. Say what you will about BulletStorm but it looks gorgeous with everything cranked up.

Oh and Witcher 2, duh. Ubersampling!

Metro 2033, Witcher 2, and... I dunno, Bulletstorm?

Also, how in the hell did you spend ~20 hours on Puzzle Agent? I cannot fathom that.

The Witcher 2, and Guild Wars 2 if you're into MMO's

40+ hours on walking dead!

@murisan said:

I want details! What'd you buy?

Also the videocard above has 3GB of DDR5 memory, how crazy is that? I bet it would abe a good choice for triple monitor setups if you're into that thing.

@beeftothetaco said:

how come you haven't even played 3/4 of them?

The last few years i have had very little gaming stamina often only booting up a game once before tiring of it. That and i find myself overly dependent on controller support for gaming lately.

@SirOptimusPrime said:

Also, how in the hell did you spend ~20 hours on Puzzle Agent? I cannot fathom that.

I am the type to leave games running in the background; most of that time may well be spent looking at the title menu or loading screen lol.

Built my rig a few months ago for around $1300. Sold my Xbox and happy with my decision.

I just bought a GTX 660ti 2GB card from Best Buy, where they mistakenly had it listed for $220. Turns out it was originally priced at $320, but the lady let me have it for that price anyway.

This card is fucking great.

As others have mentioned, Metro 2033; also, Hard Reset.

But, you haven't played Braid, I think you should play Braid.

@Questionable said:

CPU	Intel Core i5 3570K
CPU Cooler	Scythe Mugen 3 PC Games Hardware Edition
Mainboard	GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD3H
Memory	8GB Corsair Vengeance CML8GX3M2A1600C9 Low Profile
SSD	256GB Samsung 830 series
HDD	2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.14
GPU	Gigabyte Radeon HD7950 WindForce 3
Casing	Fractal Design Define R4
Power suppy	XFX ProSeries 750W XXX Edition
DVD burner	LG GH24NS90
Monitor	Dell Ultrasharp U2312HM

Did you build it or have a website build it for you?

Also did you already have that Dell Monitor? They're getting super cheap and I've been dying to get two. It's really sad, unless I'm on my HDTV my PC is stuck at 1600x900.... I'm not too proud of that....

Law of the West

Skyrim

Thank goodness you got a normal looking case!

@Doctorchimp said:

Did you build it or have a website build it for you?

Also did you already have that Dell Monitor? They're getting super cheap and I've been dying to get two. It's really sad, unless I'm on my HDTV my PC is stuck at 1600x900.... I'm not too proud of that....

I bought the Dell monitor just yesterday, should arrive today or the day after. Every review i read spoke highly of it as if it was supposedly competing with models twice its price range. I just picked what was in the below mentioned guide for a monitor as personally i have no real preference for any brand or model, just figured it was time to get rid of the old 19" 16:9 iiiyama i use now

I went with the "Best Buy Guide" wich is a monthly community picked guide for delivering you the best possible price/performance for a multiple of budgets. I am not one to second guess the hobyistst and hardware fanatics so i used that for refference. I ended up with the deluxe version of the mainboard because you can never have enough ports and for the GPU they recommended a factory OC'ed one but instead i went for the one with the best cooling so i can get better numbers if i ever decide to manually OC the thing.

@Doctorchimp: Looks like it is built out of a newegg order, I'm pretty sure a boutique PC maker would not bother to list the brand of DVD drive. Edit: And the OP resounded with a clarification so this part is irrelevant.

You could probably grab a decent 23" 1080p for ~130. If you are going for a dual setup make sure you check both HP and Dell, as both have 2-3 monitors + nice stand deals that get rather dramatic sales (black friday is soon.....).

The original Heroes of Might and Magic V has one of the best title screens, perfect for leaving on in the background.

The PSU arrived today so I was finally able to power on for the first time. All the fans are crazy quiet so much that I thought I'd messed up somewhere

And that's with a open case.

I payed 1400$ two years ago and had better internal components. How much did that monitor set you back?

I would suggest GTA IV with the new iCEnhancer 2.0

TIE FIGHTER!!!!

Metro 2033 isn't the best example. Sure it requires a pretty good computer to max everything but it's more due to shoddy programming. Even if you can run it with everything maxed it doesn't look spectacular. There have only been 3 games that have truly wowed me with the visual presentation and they were The Witcher 2, Battlefield 3 and Trine 2 in 3D.