This a good gaming rig?

unfortunately your parts will soon find out why things cost less then others.

that psu and some other parts are not gonna last too long and when they break you will have to pay for shipping back and forth for them to get fixed, all that will add up, also some of the parts have only a one year warranty.

anyways, you can't upgrade the cpu with the p55 platform, which means the only things you can upgrade is the video card adn you might even need to upgrade the psu to do that, and then as you mentioned you will have to upgrade the mobo.

by the time you are done doing all of this, you will have spend more then what you would have paid DS to build a proper PC with the right parts so all you need to do is just drop a second card in, and you would have had a faster pc, with much better airflow and temps.

I wish I could have talked to your parents, and show them that its was cheaper to get the pc from DS, if see the big picture.

anyways, now that is what you got, and all and all its not a bad pc, at least you still got a new quad core, 4GB of ram, I know plenty of people that would kill to be in shoes, so congrats and enjoy

btw I say go with the newer card, like the fermi or 5870, they are pretty much like having 2 of the current cards (4870, 275 gtx).

Edited by DST4ME - 28 Nov 2009 at 5:54am

Ya its definitely a great upgrade and you gonna love it I'm sure