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PC Shopping, Seeking Advice
Pinfeldorf
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So, it has recently dawned on me like an alcoholic has an epiphany that my PC has reached its milestone fifth birthday. This means it is time to send her off to turn her into dog food and glue, but the question remains in what PC I will ride for the next five years. Here is where the lovely PA community comes in!
I just got a brand new graphics card last week, a GeForce GTS 250 1G, and I had to buy a new power supply this summer when my old one caught on fire (literally, it started smoking and smelled like someone put a lego in the toaster), which is an Antec SG650. My Hard Drives have a lot of stuff I'd rather not have to reinstall, along with some things I cannot reinstall at all due to various companies having faggoty 30 day install policies on digital downloads, so I need to keep them (but am not averse to getting a third if necessary). So, long story short, I would really appreciate some recommendations for good cost effective:
Motherboard
Processor (or Mobo/CPU bundles)
RAM
Case
Rig will be used mostly for gaming, but I'm not a huge performance geek. I'm fine with long-ish load times, I just want to be able to play the next five years' worth of games without suffering with FPS in the teens. My price range is about $800, and I am totally fine with running 4G of RAM over 8G.
Thanks in advance for any friendly people who recommend me things, and a big fuck you to all Amish people.
I just got a brand new graphics card last week, a GeForce GTS 250 1G, and I had to buy a new power supply this summer when my old one caught on fire (literally, it started smoking and smelled like someone put a lego in the toaster), which is an Antec SG650. My Hard Drives have a lot of stuff I'd rather not have to reinstall, along with some things I cannot reinstall at all due to various companies having faggoty 30 day install policies on digital downloads, so I need to keep them (but am not averse to getting a third if necessary). So, long story short, I would really appreciate some recommendations for good cost effective:
Motherboard
Processor (or Mobo/CPU bundles)
RAM
Case
Rig will be used mostly for gaming, but I'm not a huge performance geek. I'm fine with long-ish load times, I just want to be able to play the next five years' worth of games without suffering with FPS in the teens. My price range is about $800, and I am totally fine with running 4G of RAM over 8G.
Thanks in advance for any friendly people who recommend me things, and a big fuck you to all Amish people.
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Processor - Intel i5 750
Motherboard - Gigabyte P55-UD3
RAM - I have no idea, but I did grab 4gb of it. I should open the case and see what's in there :?
Case - Gigabyte GZ-X7
My graphics card is a GTX275, and the system runs really well. I'm running Crysis and Dragon Age at high, 2xAA at 1440x900 with no issues. Wasn't cheap, but it wasn't stupidly expensive either. Came to about $1500au without Windows 7 Pro, though that put it to about $1700au. Not sure how that prices are in the US (Australians generally pay twice as much as what things go for in the US, and I got this through a store, I didn't shop around and make it myself which would have been cheaper, plus you already have the expensive bit - the graphics card).
No idea how common this is or if it only occurs in specific combinations, but I thought I should warn you its possible.
I have no idea if this still holds with Win 7 or even Vista, but with XP as far as I know if you put in a new CPU or motherboard you're going to be re-installing Windows.
PSN: TheScrublet