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Limp Gawd
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1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
serious gaming, general college activities
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
I want to get everything as cheap as I can, but dont go over 700 with Tax and shipping
3) Where do you live?
Ohio
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. Please be very specific.
RAM
CPU
Mobo
GPU
DVD burner
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
Cooler master 650w power supply-Real Power Pro
Seagate barracuda 500gb HDD-SATA 3gb/s
Case

6) Will you be overclocking?
nope
7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
19" LCD
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
In a month or so.
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc. Must have PCI-E 2.0 slot (future proof), also need something thats a micro ATX OR that will fit in a NXRT rogue case.
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license?
No
 
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Which model power supply? Which generation hard drive? How long have you had both for?

Also, wait until a week or two before you plan on buying everything to revisit this thread. "In a few months" is too long of a time to plan anything... new items may arrive and certain items may be priced differently. Use this "down time" to perform some research and think of a few parts that you may be interested in.
 
To be honest, I think the parts listed in your sig are still fine. My advice would be to get 4 or 8GB of memory (~$30-$60) and replace the video card. Once this generation of video cards become obsolete, then you should be prime for a cpu/mobo upgrade.

What would you have that would require a PCIe 2.0 slot? Have these new video cards even started using the additional bandwidth? I don't recall seeing any benchmarks showing bandwidth caps yet.
 
You can't do any "serious gaming" on an Athlon X2 and a 1950XT GPU.

OP, your likely not going to find a main board without PCI-E 2.0. Anyways, even if you did you can run a PCI-E 2.0 compatible GPU in a 1.1 slot and not notice any performance decrease. Really all you need is at least 8x PCI-E, preferably 16x, which again every board is likely to have.
 
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