Recent content by BajaRasta

Should I get a different case or a smaller profile cooler? The case was budget but had very high ratings. Thanks for the help!

Also I think the cooler has to be smaller than a 150mm from what I've read regarding the case size & mobo combo

Woops.. left out 1 detail... PSU is an XFX TS 550w wired 80+ Bronze Still ok with a gtx 960? Thanks for the fast reply!

So I've finally started down the path of building my own PC after maxing out my old Acer M3400 Athlon II X215. My old Acer (6 years now?) has 8 GB ram, an MX-100 SSD (256) + 640 GB WD HDD and a GeForce 210 1GB. The new build will actually be used mostly for work which is real estate marketing...

PC has been bullet-proof so perhaps I'll leave it as is and take your advice and spend the $$ on a new rig. Thanks for the help!

Wow! Thanks for the fast replies.... seems BIOS will support AMD Phenom II X4 820. Would there be a noticeable increase in performance or should I just move on? CPUMark for X2 215: 1599 CPUMark for Phenom II: 3433 Thanks again!

I am wondering if it is worthwhile to upgrade the CPU on a pre-built Acer Aspire M3400. It currently has an Athlon X2 215 Regor (which I understand may be unlockble to 4 cores but Bios is locked ). Here are the specs: Mobo: 880G/SB850 CPU: AMD Athlon II x215 (Lev 2 Cache 2X512K GPU: Nvidia GT210...