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Gaming Upgrade

radgoos

radgoos

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1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Gaming
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
$200 not including tax and ship
3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us the state and city if possible.

Port St Lucie, FL
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. The word "Everything" is not a valid answer. Please list out all the parts you'll need.
CPU, RAM, Motherboard
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
PCP&C 500W PSU, Radeon HD 6850, 2x SATA Hard Drives, AZZA Solano 1000 Case
6) Will you be overclocking?
Not necessary, but if I can I will
7) 7) What is the max resolution of your monitor? What size is it?
19" 1440x900
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
ASAP
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? USB 3.0? SATA 6Gb/s? eSATA? Onboard video (as a backup or main GPU)? UEFI? etc.
USB 3.0 / DDR3 / SATA 6Gb/s / Gigabit Ethernet
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If so, what OS? Is it 32bit or 64bit?
Windows 7 64-bit


These are the parts I was thinking about: (about 30mins of looking, I'm sure there is better out there)
$75 - ASRock 970 EXTREME3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
$39 - Patriot Viper 3 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model PV38G160C9K
$109 - AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ965FBGMBOX

Coming from:
AMD Phenom X4 9850 Quad Core 2.5GHz @ 2.7GHz Socket AM2+
ASUS M4A785-M Micro-ATX Socket AM2+
4GB ULTRA brand DDR2 RAM
 
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Do you have a spare AMD HSF or are you not planning on reusing those older AMD parts?

If you do have a spare AMD AM2/AM2+/AMD3 HSF, that Phenom II deal that JMacker posted is a pretty good deal for a CPU.
 
I plan on using the old parts to upgrade my fiance's computer
I have no preference for either camp Intel/AMD doesn't matter to me
 
Then I recommend this setup:
$75 - Intel Pentium G860 CPU
$77 - Biostar B75MU3+ Intel B75 mATX Motherboard
$34 - G.Skill Value Series F3-10666CL9D-8GBNT 2 x 4GB DDR3 1333 RAM
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Total: $186 shipped.
 
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