Recent content by Misfate

Thanks for the help - ordered everything. That Windows 8 upgrade needs a current installation of Windows on the PC it's being used on, and it's not student exclusive.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks CPU: Intel Pentium G860 3.0GHz Dual-Core Processor ($64.99 @ NCIX US) Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3V Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($64.99 @ Newegg) Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory...

Bump I changed my budget from $600 to $500 since I am reusing my monitor. I also added 2 questions to my original post.

I live about an hour and 30 minutes away from that Microcenter unfortunately. The reason I chose AMD is because I've seen people recommend the Phenom quad-core over the newer Intel dual-cores on r/buildapc.

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Light gaming (League of Legends; running modern games at 60fps at lower settings), streaming HD video, web browsing, word processing. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? $500 - tax and shipping...

Used. https://spideroak.com/download/referral/210d88645d399ea464c320ecb8d31acd

The cooling and the OC.

Posting to enter.

Sager NP9850 Also has 2 GTX 280Ms like the Alienware one; specs are pretty much the same.

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/2897/corsair_obsidian_800d_full_tower_chassis/index.html

Read the topic title as "Emotion Engine" and thought it was some new development in PS2 emulation. :(

or http://www.powernotebooks.com

Also fixed my problem with Gmail (like other people had). :)

Could be an issue with your internet or your computer. :confused: Thanks for the tip. ;)

Downloaded+installed. Works fine for me, except for a few add-ons. :p