I didn't want to spend more than a grand found this one on auction here Been wanting to play SH5 properly since it came out but had to QQ for months cause the pc I have spits the dummy. Good enough for WoW and SH3 & 4 but bad for SH5.
okay its not top of the line when it comes to gaming rigs but this beauty will play SH5.
Paying tonight waiting for courier to arrive before Christmas! Gonna be a long wait...
Costs $679 - no monitor/kb/mouse just the box. Good enough for me. As i have spare gear lying around.
Criticism welcome. Might upgrade to Windows 7 later in the New Year
Specs
Xeon platform coupled with the nVidia 9800GT DX 10 Graphics card
Super Micro X7DAE High performance Motherboard
2 x Intel dual core Xeon 5130 at2.0 Ghz EACH.8.0GHZ Dual 771-pin LGA Sockets 2 physical CPUs, 4 physical cores.
* 4 gb High preformance ram memory 6 slots free)
* 3 x 80gb SATA Hdd
* 1 x 250 gb SATA Hdd
Raid compatible disks
nVidia Ge force 9800GT ddr3,
3D compatible
PHYSX compatible
* 6 x sata ports
* Built-in SATA-II Raid
* DVD-RW
* 2 x PCI-e slots
* Dual 1Gigabit NIC ports
* 6 x USB 2.0 ports
Dual 771-pin LGA Sockets
Sockets Supports Intel 64-bit Quad-Core Xeon Processor 5300 sequence
Windows Xp Pro SP3 installed, XPP COA.
*Warranty 30 Days