Is this a decent gaming build?

i7 3770k 3.5ghz (3.9 turbo)
GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD3H
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB 1600
2x EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB (SLI)
CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX850M 850W ATX12V
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200 RPM (ill buy some more memory in the future)

with the case, tax, shipping etc, this build is just about $2000

will this be able to handle games like battlefield 3 and arma 2 on max settings at 1080p with over 60fps?

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• What are you planning to do with this compuer? Please be as specfic as possible.

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  5. Do you ever plan on utilizing NVIDIA's SLI or AMD's CrossfireX technologies? These features, with a compatible motherboard, allow a user to link multiple identical graphic cards together for added performance. In real world terms, this lets you buy a second identical graphics card down the line as a relatively cheap and easy way to gain a fairly large boost in performance. However, this requires buying a SLI/CFX compatible motherboard and PSU now, which may result in slightly higher initial cost.

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Single more powerful card is always better than dual lower end cards. Can definitely go less on the PSU too.

Intel Haswell CPUs come out soon. You could wait for that and see a price dip in the IB generation or get the Haswells. Nvidia just came out with the 700s too. So you could wait a bit on that. Otherwise, I recommend...

Drop the i7 3770K for the i5 3570K. You won't need that much CPU power. Take the savings and put it into a SDD over the HDD. Also, for 2x 660 Ti, you could get a better single GPU, like the new GTX 780.

Leegit said:

Drop the i7 3770K for the i5 3570K. You won't need that much CPU power. Take the savings and put it into a SDD over the HDD. Also, for 2x 660 Ti, you could get a better single GPU, like the new GTX 780.

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Also, if you go SLI/Crossfire you can get 'microstutter' which is not fun and very annoying. To me you only go SLI when you already have the best GPU available and you want a second best GPU. Its illogical to SLI two lesser GPUs when you could just purchase a single more powerful GPU.

Some games don't even like SLI. This would mean you'd only get one GTX660 worth of power in those games.

Its just not a good idea.

And to answer your question ... Yes you will be able to max out bf3, most probably over 60fps on a 1080p.