Recent content by AxemanACL

That is a just fine temperature. Don't worry about it.

I have the green version of the Cooler Master fan. I've only had it for 6 months but it it still working fine. The screws are hard to get in, you have to cut a lot of material when screwing in the screws, you either have to drive the screws through before you put it in the case, to pre thread...

OP: I personally love my MSI Twin Frozen GTX460. I currently have it overclocked above the 560 factory superclocked versions (a 560 is just an optimized/overclocked 460, so I believe you can compare clock speeds directly.) For your information I can run Skyrim with default textures at 60fps...

The cpu and graphics cards each have their own heatsinks and fans. And it looks like you case has a front and rear fan. You should be go to go fan wise. The heatsink/fan that comes with the i5 isn't the greatest, but since you aren't overclocking if will cool the cpu just fine, it just might...

No you do not. The i5-2400 can't really overclock, so you will not have any heat issues on the stock cooler.

I 2nd DEY123. Give us the specs of their current computer. You might be able to reuse parts, and get much better bang for your buck. I'm assuming that their current computer is a prebuilt? If so, if we can keep the same motherboard, you would not have to buy another copy of Windows, since...

Really any of the following would work: G Skill, Crucial, Corsair, and Patriot. They all make solid ram.

Copy paste from AMD's website. 450 Watt or greater power supply with one 75W 6-pin PCI Express® power connectors recommended (600 Watt and two 6-pin connectors for ATI CrossFireX™ technology in dual mode) So 600W

i5 is the way to go. Though I would get the K version, you can at least give it a slight overclock. The only advantage of an i7 is the hyperthreading witch is only useful for some video creating software, engineering programs, etc. For gaming it doesn't help at all.