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Thanks for the replies. I think I'll end up purchasing a new cooler. I'd like to stick to air-cooling. Stew, of the two air coolers you recommended, which one would you favor?

To what extent could I overclock my AMD FX-6100 on the stock/default fan? If any further specs are required, here's the newegg page for the product: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103962 Also, I'm running a 550w PSU if that's an issue. Thanks in advance!

Recently, a game called Smite and another called Tribes: Ascend. I used to run Tribes on Very High settings with no problem, (60-90 fps) and smite runs well on most machines really, (I was getting 100+ fps) but then it locks at 20-30 fps. Edit:1280x1024

I've been experiencing low frame rates in games where I exceed the recommended system reqs. After looking at my cpu/gpu temps/load it looks to me as if they aren't doing much work at all. Is there a reason this might be happening? Resetting the computer typically resolves the problem(it occurs...

Alright, great! Had me freaked out. Thanks alot!

Well, it was about 1 fingers worth. ( a bit like a fingerprint) but the majority of it is still covered.

I was taking my CPU out of the box, and when I picked up the fan, I accidentally touched the bottom, and removed some of the grey paste. I haven't intentionally removed any, or cleaned it off thoroughly-- am I still OK to use it, or do I need new thermal paste?

Ah... right. Is there any way to wipe my hard drive, aside from the OS?

Thanks alot, I think I might be going with that exactly. One other thing I forgot about is the Operating system... How should I deal with that?

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Alright, that can't be TOO expensive. When I click on that link, all I see is an empty wishlist.

Gateway, I believe.

I suppose I could salvage the case and HDD. ( Don't know what I'm talking about ) Well the thing is do you want to conserve as much money as possible but still build a PC that can do moderate gaming or do you want to spend the full $700 and get the best you can buy?: Somewhere in the middle...

It seems like I just have the wrong PC in general for gaming... If you were to reccomend a pre-built desktop PC, which would you reccomend on a...say 400-700$ budget? I know this is know off topic in this thread, but I don't think that I should post another one.