Cheapest way to your FPS's heart.

[Aevis]

yes, here are some of my aion vids i made to show my ls: YouTube - Aeviskitty's Channel

i didn't do any big scale raids or mass pk in abyss/rifts, but i never have any lag except as mentioned. for example i log in the alchemy section in sanctum and it take 3-5 sec until the last pc has been loaded, but from there i don't experience anything at all when walking around. i bet it will be even smoother once i can play on the eu servers and not on china.

[Akiyama]

Ahh. Nice. Well Aion wouldn't be the only game I'd play, but it's nice to know you can run it pretty smoothly. Makes me wonder about my machine I want to build.

[SaviorSelf]

How are you guys playing Aion already? D:

[Aevis]

playing chinese retail with english patch. google for it if you're interested, there are enough guides available.

[Blabj]

I actually watched a review/custom thing for the Antec 300 and saw that. That's pretty cool. Is it big enough to fit a 4770 in the case without it causing much problems with stuff elsewhere? I didn't want to go too small.

If you're constantly pulling hard drives out, it might be a problem with the hard drive slot behind which your graphics card will be, you'll probably have to pull the power connector on the graphics card out, and then pull the hard drive out at an angle. But it's only a minor problem, and aside from that, I have no gripes about the case at all.

You might wanna buy some new fans also since the ones shipped with the case are crappy power supply operated fans, not the 3/4 pin fan headers you find on motherboards. I say that because if you buy a mobo with Cool'n'quiet or something similar, which controls the speed of your fans to optimise heat/noise, you'll probably want to make the most of it.

[Akiyama]

Ah. I don't plan on going with anything that has CnQ honestly. At least not that I know of... I'm looking at a Gigabyte UD4P Mobo for the AM2+ Processors at the moment. Phenom II X4 940 is what proc I'm looking at getting, but yeah. I didn't know if I wanted to get another two fans to go along with the two that the Antec 300 comes with.

[Faye]

if you have left over money go with a 4890 or two

These are currently the best cards. I'm in the market for a new homebuilt PC as well, and found this to be the best value:

$215 ($20 mail-in) SAPPHIRE Vapor-X Radeon HD 4870 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 (Crossfire supported). 750 MHz core clock, 3.6 Gbps memory clock. 2GB of 256-bit GDDR5 means you can oversample like crazy. The other one I was looking at was a Sapphire that had 1gb GDDR5 and 850 clock, which is a ~13% increase over the one above, but I opted for the +100% in GDDR5.

Regarding the other parts (mobo and power supply suggestions):
For a power supply I'm going with either the Corsair CMPSU-750TX or the CMPSU-850TX, which are 750w and 850w respectively. Probably the 850w since it's only $20 more and I plan on overclocking and dunking the entire system in mineral oil later. Also, I'm planning on using Asus' 790GX mobo, not gigabyte's (no qualms/favors for either company, it was just cheaper/had better slot orientation).

[Akiyama]

So much power. D: I'm only planning on going 500-600W probably, but I also don't plan on overclocking or doing any insane shit on mine.