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themorningbells
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I made this post like 4 months ago, and I'm just seeing if anyones suggestions have changed. Since I didn't end up buying anything then, I'm picking up my quest anew. But to go on...
I haven't looked into building a computer for a while now. Currently running an aging Sempron@2.2ghz with a 6800gt. Anyways, I was looking to be able to run newer games fairly well. Basically I need a motherboard, ram, cpu, video card, and PSU. Everything else I can transfer over. Looking to spend around $500-600 to get me running Crysis and COD4 at decent speeds. Figure $180 video card (512mb 8800gt), and then from there I have no idea what I should get CPU/Mobo/RAM/PSU wise. I'm looking for specifics so links are appreciated.
Preemptive thanks as I'm sure you all still love these types of threads.
P.S. My actual upgrade urge is because I don't think my current setup likes 2 SATA drives. I bought a 750g samsung spinpoint drive and it makes my pc act really strange. I just got an RMA and the new one is detected at start up, but windows can't detect it. My old one would either cause my PC to constantly reboot over and over at the detecting HD phase of booting, or if it was detected, the windows loading screen would take like 15 minutes to load (it would be be dim, 3 minutes later get brighter, 3 minutes later a little bright <-on the windows loading screen until it finally loaded). But like I said I just got an RMA and it does the same thing as my old one. Startup would detect it, but windows would take like 15 minutes to load. If I unplug it everything loads fine. So yeah I assume it's not the harddrive at this point and the problem lies with my MOBO or PSU or something. Any suggestions?
I haven't looked into building a computer for a while now. Currently running an aging Sempron@2.2ghz with a 6800gt. Anyways, I was looking to be able to run newer games fairly well. Basically I need a motherboard, ram, cpu, video card, and PSU. Everything else I can transfer over. Looking to spend around $500-600 to get me running Crysis and COD4 at decent speeds. Figure $180 video card (512mb 8800gt), and then from there I have no idea what I should get CPU/Mobo/RAM/PSU wise. I'm looking for specifics so links are appreciated.
Preemptive thanks as I'm sure you all still love these types of threads.
P.S. My actual upgrade urge is because I don't think my current setup likes 2 SATA drives. I bought a 750g samsung spinpoint drive and it makes my pc act really strange. I just got an RMA and the new one is detected at start up, but windows can't detect it. My old one would either cause my PC to constantly reboot over and over at the detecting HD phase of booting, or if it was detected, the windows loading screen would take like 15 minutes to load (it would be be dim, 3 minutes later get brighter, 3 minutes later a little bright <-on the windows loading screen until it finally loaded). But like I said I just got an RMA and it does the same thing as my old one. Startup would detect it, but windows would take like 15 minutes to load. If I unplug it everything loads fine. So yeah I assume it's not the harddrive at this point and the problem lies with my MOBO or PSU or something. Any suggestions?
