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I have a 4 year old ASUS 939 Board with an Athlon X2 4200 Dual Processor that I am looking to upgrade. My budget is under $200 and the PC is primarily used as an HTPC, but I would like to be able to also do some gaming also. Anyone have any good recommendations on a Board, Processor, and Memory that would give me a good performance boost and be capable of running the games that will be coming out in the next 1-2 years. I just upgraded to a 6770 video card and got a new 650 Watt Corsair PS if that makes any difference. Thanks for your input.
 
3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us the state and city if possible.
6) Will you be overclocking?
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? USB 3.0? SATA 6Gb/s? eSATA? Onboard video? etc.

EDIT: On second thought, with that low of a budget, really not much room to choose anyway. Also gonna assume you're in the U.S:
$120 - Intel Core i3-2120
$60 - MSI H61M-P21 Intel H61 mATX Motherboard
$18 - G.Skill Value Series F3-10600CL9D-4GBNT 4GB DDR3 1333 RAM
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Total: $198 plus tax and shipping
 
Thanks for the info. So is a dual core Intel a much faster processor than a quad core amd? And does that processor also work as a video card or in conjunction with my 6770? Sorry for the noob questions, I have not paid much attention to the tech over the last few years. Also, I will probably be using newegg for purchase and am in the US.
 
Sorry, forgot to answer a few questions. USB 3.0 would be nice. I'm really not sure on crossfire, I understand that sli is two of the same video cards working together. Is crossfire any different, will it allow two different cards to work together. I may add a second graphics card in the future.
 
john81 said:
Thanks for the info. So is a dual core Intel a much faster processor than a quad core amd?
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For gaming, yes. For HTPC duties, they'll be about the same unless your HTPC duties include a ton of video encoding/rendering.
john81 said:
And does that processor also work as a video card or in conjunction with my 6770?
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It can do both. But for simplicity's sake, just use your video card and the CPU as is. Just think of it as any normal PC.

john81 said:
Sorry, forgot to answer a few questions. USB 3.0 would be nice. I'm really not sure on crossfire, I understand that sli is two of the same video cards working together. Is crossfire any different, will it allow two different cards to work together. I may add a second graphics card in the future.
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Crossfire is basically AMD's version of SLI.
 
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