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Approximate Purchase Date: This week
 
Budget Range: $200 (if using eBay) $600 (Newegg)
 
System Usage from Most to Least to most important: Gaming, video editing, YouTube, music.
 
Parts Not Required: Keyboard, mouse, monitor.
 
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: eBay and Newegg
 
Country of Origin: USA
 
Parts Preferences: Nvidia GPU and AMD CPU
 
Overclocking: Maybe
 
SLI or Crossfire: No
 
Monitor Resolution: 1680x1050
 
Additional Comments: I also have a LED 90mm exhaust fan and am looking to get integrated wifi, I already own the Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H motherboard, Sata DVD drive, generic 500w PSU and WD blue 320gb 7200rpm HDD. It is AM2+ and AM3, along with PCIe 1.0 x16.

What CPU and GPU would you recommend?


Here is what I Ordered So far:

Motherboard ($17 eBay):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128056

Ram ($26 eBay):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231122

CPU ($50 eBay):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103773

GPU ($51 eBay):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130514

PSU ($30 eBay):
http://cgi.ebay.com/500W-ATX-Power-Supply-ATX-300-12Z-CDR-w-PCI-E-2-ATX12V-/390332283354?pt=PCA_UPS&hash=item5ae19df9da

HDD ($50 BestBuy):
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Western+Digital+-+320GB+Internal+Hard+Drive+for+Desktops/7821985.p?id=1142294266836&skuId=7821985&st=320gb%20&cp=1&lp=6

Exhaust Fan ($11 BestBuy):
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Rocketfish%26%23153%3B+-+80mm+Case+Fan/9462627.p?id=1218108989651&skuId=9462627

CPU Fan/Heatsync ($10 eBay):
http://cgi.ebay.com/Cooler-Master-CK8-8JD2B-0L-AMD-Athlon-64-CPU-Heatsink-/160631359444?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item25666007d4#ht_500wt_1287

DVD Drive ($20 Geeks.com):
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=BLK-TS-H653-DO-NP&cpc=SCH

$265 Total :D

(I Already own a Standerd ATX Case.)
 
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I'm confused...what's your question? Are you looking to upgrade what you have or are you looking to see if what you ordered works? Do you have $600 left to spend? If you have $600 to spend I'm going to recommend an Intel Core i3-2100 based system that will game better than an AMD Phenom II 955...
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I'm confused...what's your question? Are you looking to upgrade what you have or are you looking to see if what you ordered works? Do you have $600 left to spend? If you have $600 to spend I'm going to recommend an Intel Core i3-2100 based system that will game better than an AMD Phenom II 955...
 
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I need up doing just that, thanks fir the reply anyways.