Recent content by lightningman

Yep it did unlock with the press of the F4 key. The mobo is cool like that ;)

Finally got everything: $41 Shipped - Biostar A880G+ $16 Shipped - LG DVD Burner $39 - $10 MIR Shipped - PNY 4GBx1 $29 Shipped - Apex Micro ATX Case $70 Shipped - Used Phenom II 555 BE from a forum member $40 Shipped - Used 600W Silverstone PSU $40 Shipped - Used HD4850 512MB $265 and she...

I've been picking up components as the May shell shockers roll out. Although we won't know the true performance until BF3 comes out in the fall :( maybe I should have waited...

How about something like this: AMD Athlon II X4 640 Propus 3.0GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor ADX640WFGMBOX

wow thanks for the fast help guys. :cool: One last question, is that CPU going to run BC2 or (heaven forbid) BF3 smoothly or should I bump up with remaining budget?

what video cards am I limited to if I go for a 400w PSU? Would it handle a 5850 or something similar?

Haha ok yeah last thing I need is a horror story. I guess I'm already scraping the bottom of the barrel here, but what's a decent low-budget PSU, assuming I can either wait for a combo deal or maybe a "shell-shocker" deal?

Hey guys, first time posting here.... 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming and web browsing. I'd really like to be able to max out BC2 and hopefully Battlefield 3, or at least run it at high settings, I know it's a few months away still. 2) What's...