Recent content by mjf6866

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    help building a gaming pc with $1000-$1500 budget

    Well, the time has come for me to build a new PC from scratch and I have only one thing in mind. Games...I've been waiting for the new Doom to be released and I will have my tax return in hand probably withing the next month or so and I want to build a killer PC that will run the latest and...
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    what board for an i7 3770?

    i have a SFF dell with an i7 3770 that i was thinking on moving to a bigger board and into at least a mid sized aftermarket case so i could build a gaming rig for myself. can anyone recommend a good motherboard for that chip that would be geared towards gaming? thank you
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    how long does it take for stuff to become "outdated"?

    so i want to build a gaming PC (mainly for the new DayZ standalone, but will be playing others i'm sure :))...problem is, DayZ is in Alpha now and probably will not be done for another year or so from what i've been reading. right now my Dell Optiplex 7010 with an i7 3770, 8gb RAM, and Radeon...
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    best motherboard for gaming with an i7 3770 @ 3.40GHz

    Nobody?...I searched but couldn't find answeres in the last 6 months. Wasn't sure if anything better has come out since.
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    best motherboard for gaming with an i7 3770 @ 3.40GHz

    i asked another question on another section of the forum about transplanting the motherboard of my small form factor optiplex 7010 over to a larger case so i could use a more powerful GPU for gaming. the biggest card i can fit in my case is the radeon 7750. that sounds like it might be more of...
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    can i transplant a sff's guts (optiplex 7010) to a larger case?

    i was given a pretty decent small form factor optiplex 7010 with an i7 3770 @ 3.4GHz, 8GB DDR3, Radeon 7750 1GB low profile card, 240GB HDD, windows 7 SP1 64bit. i was thinking on making this a little gamer machine since i have no money tied up in it. it plays games pretty well now, but the...
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    can i swap these CPUs?

    thanks benjii, it worked fine!
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    can i swap these CPUs?

    i was just given a Dell Optiplex 780 small form factor with an Intel Core 2 Duo E7600 3.06ghz CPU. my question that i hope someone can answer is whether or not i can just swap processors with another 780 that has an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 3.0ghz processor? would that simply be "plug and play"...
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    what is the best CPU i can get in this mobo?

    thank you for the link! i am probably missing something on that site, but according to Speccy, the board i have in there is Model: 03NVJ6 made by Dell and i cant find it in their list. what am i doing wrong? thanks again!
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    what is the best CPU i can get in this mobo?

    hello everyone, first post for me here! i have a Dell Optiplex 780 that was given to me and i figured i'd upgrade it as much as i could and make a little gaming machine. i know that this machine will not be a "game crushing" computer. i just want to be able to play some games from a few years...