upgrade time

Shapeshifter

Limp Gawd
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1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Mostly gaming

2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
about 600 to 800 dollars, taxes and shipping included

3) Where do you live?
Canada

4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. Please be very specific.
Cpu, motherboard, Ram, Soild state drive, windows 7

5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
Antec 300, Antec Earthwatts 650, WD 640gb black and an Ati 5870

6) Will you be overclocking?
mild ocer

7) What size monitor do you have and/or plan to have?
24"

8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
within the month

9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc.
nothing special

10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If yes, what OS? 32bit or 64bit?
vista, but frak if Im going to keep using that.


Grabbed the following:
windows 7 home prem
I5 750
Corsair H50 cooler
Gigabyte P55a-ud4p
4gb G.skill ripjaws

and an Intel X25-v 40gb for a boot/os drive.
 
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good to know, was iffy on if i should go x58 and a 920 for a bit more futureproof, but that would have put me over budget.

Figure this can easily last me with a small oc till Intel gets the sandy bridge etc out.
 
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