i have built my own pc about a year ago and although i say it myself i am very pleased with it, i was just wondering if it is suitable for playing games on?

it has an ez cool full size tower, alpha power 850w psu, gigabyte ga-m68sm-s2l motherboard, amd phenom 9650 quad core processor, terratec aureon 5.1 sound card, xfx nvidia geforce 512mb 9500gt graphics card, western digital 500gb sata hard drive, 2 x sony sata dvd rw, 4gb crucial ram and four cooling fans all running directly off the psu.

the game i was thinking of running s crysis!

Hi xenomorph200, the Crysis engine is in a league of it´s own!! I have 2 8800GT´s in SLI (practically the same as the 9800GT) and it still won´t run fluently on very high details. What size monitor are you using, it´s not just the card to take into consideration but also the resolution you want to play at. Matt

i am using a iiyama 22 inch monitor.

i agree madmacs, crysis is a monster........ definately needs a GTX260, best bang for buck card. xenomorph your system is fine otherwise just upgrade the graphics card and you will be fine.

nice one cheers guys.........time to start saving!

hmmmm, see problem is its a micro atx board (smaller than normal ATX boards) and i googled your make and model and i see what you mean about the SATA ports that will most likely be blocked off by the GTX260, this isnt usually a problem on an ATX board.
if you get some RIght angle SATA cables example you might get away with it, id first try it out or measure the space between the card and the SATA connector. it could just work.