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I'm looking to upgrade my computer for not too large of a cost.
My current setup is:
MOBO: MSI K8N SLI-F
RAM: 4x 1GB DDR 400
CPU: AMD Athlon x64 II
OS: Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate
GPU: EVGA Nvidia Geforce 8600 GTS
PSU: Random 510 Watt
I'm not sure what else I should list for my specs, im not at home at the moment and I can't remember much more than that.
Any cheap recommendations that would improve my gaming performance?
Forget about it.
Get a new one.
Great advice man!
Here, lemme pull about a grand out of my ***.
Buying a new system will give you the best bang for the buck. Plus, new gaming computers can run as low as $400 now. It's not like $2000 per gaming PC, because of both, a recession and huge competition between AMD and Intel, ATI and Nvidia, prices have dropped to a lot.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811147153
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157176
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125253
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817170017
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227495
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103652
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835103064
reuse hard drive, reuse dvd drive, reuse mouse, keyboard, monitor
442$
probably not the best build as of the moment but i did this for a friend and still had the links
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Originally Posted by XGrave
Thank you for this.
That's a budget I can afford. hah.
Again, thank you.
No offense, but that's a really bad build. NEVER, EVER skimp the PSU. That PSU is utter trash. It's $22 for a reason, it's almost like a HP PSU, but with more watts... I'd buy this combo instead:Quote:
Originally Posted by XGrave
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboD...t=Combo.365786
First house brand that actually makes good products(if you look at the right ones).
Also, just reuse the 8600GTS too. This chart(4670(couldn't find 4650) vs 8600GTS) shows that it's pretty close, or at least you won't notice a drop until Crysis level stuff.
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/g...d[3131]=on
You can also throw out the CPU and heatsink for this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103704
AMD stock heatsinks aren't as terrible as the old Intel ones. They actually cool pretty well. Plus, it's a good bang for the buck. Here's an article backing up my statement:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ache,2416.html
If you look at the charts, you can see that the Athlon II x4 is more or less 80% of a Phenom II x4 at the same speed. It saves ~$96 while still receiving 80% of the performance, not bad if I say so myself.