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Ive never build a PC before but Ive done several part replacements in mine and its starting to fall behind on the newest games after 5 years of faithful service. Lately Ive been playing a lot of shooters like Battlefield Bad Company 2 and the graphics are lagging on the lowest settings. Battlefield 3 is coming out soon with 64 person maps and id love to be able to run those in a few months. I know enough about most of the parts to find them myself but im a little shady on how certain points, such as what makes a motherboard or certain ram better than others and part compatibility between motherboard and CPU.
Approximate Purchase Date:
~ This weekend (Feb 25-28)
Budget Range:
~ $500-$600
System Usage from Most to Least Important:
~ gaming, GIS digital mapping and analysis, surfing the internet, watching movies
Parts Not Required:
~ Graphics card, keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, OS
Preferred Website(s) for Parts:
~ Newegg.com
Country of Origin:
~ USA
Parts Preferences:
~ AMD set-up
Overclocking:
~ Potentially if a friend of mine helps me out with it later
SLI or Crossfire:
~ doubtful
Monitor Resolution:
~ 1920x1080
The graphics card in my current PC is a Radeon 4870 512mb. I just bought it last year when my old card died and its most likely bottle-necked where it is now. Its still a good card so I was just going to steal it for my new comp and buy a cheap card more worthy of my old PC for resale purposes.
I think I would prefer to have 8gb of RAM for rendering digital maps for my schoolwork but other than that im open to suggestions.
I also thought these looked like pretty good deals to start with if I can order them while they're still on sale over the weekend.
Cooler master HAF 922 case + 700w power supply combo for $110
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.611141&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL022411&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL022411-_-EMC-022411-Index-_-Combo-_-Combo611141-LM2A
G.Skill Ripjaws X series 8gb RAM for $70
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231426&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL022411&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL022411-_-EMC-022411-Index-_-DesktopMemory-_-20231426-L0A
Ive never build a PC before but Ive done several part replacements in mine and its starting to fall behind on the newest games after 5 years of faithful service. Lately Ive been playing a lot of shooters like Battlefield Bad Company 2 and the graphics are lagging on the lowest settings. Battlefield 3 is coming out soon with 64 person maps and id love to be able to run those in a few months. I know enough about most of the parts to find them myself but im a little shady on how certain points, such as what makes a motherboard or certain ram better than others and part compatibility between motherboard and CPU.
Approximate Purchase Date:
~ This weekend (Feb 25-28)
Budget Range:
~ $500-$600
System Usage from Most to Least Important:
~ gaming, GIS digital mapping and analysis, surfing the internet, watching movies
Parts Not Required:
~ Graphics card, keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, OS
Preferred Website(s) for Parts:
~ Newegg.com
Country of Origin:
~ USA
Parts Preferences:
~ AMD set-up
Overclocking:
~ Potentially if a friend of mine helps me out with it later
SLI or Crossfire:
~ doubtful
Monitor Resolution:
~ 1920x1080
The graphics card in my current PC is a Radeon 4870 512mb. I just bought it last year when my old card died and its most likely bottle-necked where it is now. Its still a good card so I was just going to steal it for my new comp and buy a cheap card more worthy of my old PC for resale purposes.
I think I would prefer to have 8gb of RAM for rendering digital maps for my schoolwork but other than that im open to suggestions.
I also thought these looked like pretty good deals to start with if I can order them while they're still on sale over the weekend.
Cooler master HAF 922 case + 700w power supply combo for $110
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.611141&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL022411&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL022411-_-EMC-022411-Index-_-Combo-_-Combo611141-LM2A
G.Skill Ripjaws X series 8gb RAM for $70
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231426&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL022411&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL022411-_-EMC-022411-Index-_-DesktopMemory-_-20231426-L0A