pc games?

ok guys i am looking for a few of the biggest, baddest most demanding games out there. it doesn't matter what genre or rating. anyone got some good recomendations?

Try Crysis with the highest settings possible.

Also...

GTA IV
ARMA II
Gods of War III
Fallout 3
Metro 2033
Supreme Commander 2
Command and Conquer 4
Just Cause 2

In other words, most of the newer games require rediculous hardware if you set them on very high settings. Many of them have a high variability so that lower end users can play them too. I'd say Crysis is probably the worst of them all but it's a few years old now.

If you're looking to benchmark your system when it comes to video games you can just use 3DMark Vantage.

As far as your system goes, you should be using your GTS 250 as your main graphics card and your onboard graphics as a dedicated physics processor if possible. If you're looking to upgrade, you should look at the following depending on price range.

GTX 260 (896MB, 448-BIT GDDR3) - $200
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-464-_-Product

GTX 470 (1280MB, 320-BIT GDDR5) - $350
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133318

GTX 480 (1536MB, 384-BIT GDDR5) - $500
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125319

Your current card has 512MB and 256-BIT GDDR3.

think my setup will handle those at the high settings?

here is how windows reads it. and it does have 1gb of ram on the card.
this is my card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814133266

fastslvblkcar said:

think my setup will handle those at the high settings?

No... if you lower the graphic settings, you might get ~20fps or ~30fps...
It can play Crysis, but not at butter smooth 60+fps...

zzz2496

I dunno...my setup (check my specs) runs Crysis at ~45-50fps on medium detail, with no difficulty that I've noticed...

fastslvblkcar said:

think my setup will handle those at the high settings?

By high, do you mean maxed out? In a word - no.

You will have to dial down settings in a lot of those games to achieve a playable framerate.

But your high OC and lower resolution will help. Unless you plan to game on that 40" TV and it's 1920x1080

i do what little gamming i do on the 19". the 40" is for movies and family guy episodes off the internet.