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Just after the Thanksgiving holiday I will have earned enough cash to up date my 4 year old Asus GC5270. I want to replace the mother board, CPU, graphic card, hard drive and power supply.
I will have around $1200.00 U.S. to spend. Here is the challenge, for the money available I want to build the best all around computer. Any suggestions?

mdurdan wrote:It would be cheaper just to get a whole new PC. Talk to Riodeels on E bay, he does great business. Mention my name and tell him you want the same PC I just bought from him, it runs RW and most other games maxed out completely

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If you have a perfectly acceptable power supply, case, optical drive, sound card, and hard drive there is no need to buy a complete machine.

If the above are in working order and do not need to be changed then all you need is:
+ CPU
+ Memory
+ Motherboard
+ Videocard

Just because you have the money doesn't mean you need to spend it all. If you're only trying to play Railworks you don't need high FPS with maxed settings, which is what $1200 worth of These things will get you.

OK, Black Friday is THE BEST day to shop, ever! New Egg will have the best deals you can find anywhere. I run an AMD CPU and Gigabyte board, others prefer Intel CPU's. I also have a high end Nvidia video card. I'll run down what I think will be good at today's prices, I'm sure other will have their recommendations. (You can also get a good idea what other folks here are/ have put together for new PC's in this Topic area)

CPU: AMD FX4350 $119 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819113326
Board: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 $139 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813128514 (A rock solid board, I've had one totally trouble free for years!)
RAM: G Skill DDR3 13333 8Gb $79 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820231402
Video card: EVGA GTX760 2Gb $264 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814130953 (whopping great card! )

All that is only a little over $600 plus shipping if any (lots of times they have free shipping) sales tax only if the place you order from has a "presence" in your state.

So add a 1Tb hard drive: Western Digital Black 1Tb 7200 RPM $89 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822136533
and a PSU: EVGA 750 watt Bronze Certified $89 (80% efficiency rating) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817438007

Now you're at about $800 so if you still want a case:
Cooler Master HAF922 $99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811119197

Probably want a DVD burner:
LG 24x DVD burner $20 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6827136259

And you still have some money to buy the next cool locomotive. And you have a killer desktop that will last for years.

And what do you recomend if you are an Intel fanboi?

8086............

PapaXpress wrote:And what do you recomend if you are an Intel fanboi?

Mobo MSI Z87-GD65 Gaming LGA 1150 $178
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813130692
CPU 4670k $240
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819116899
RAM Corsair Vengeance LP $89
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820233186
CPU Cooler $35
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835103099
PSU Thermaltake SMART Series modular $70
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817153174
GPU MSI Gaming N760 TF 2GD5/OC GeForce GTX 760 $260
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814127745
Case Cooler Master HAF XM $129
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811119257
HDD WD Black $85
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... CatId=2459

Optional to run game off of. Samsung 840 EVO $108
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... CatId=5298


Total $1086
Price does not include optional SSD.
You will have a awesome desktop that will last for years.

RvA944 wrote:8086............

I was gonna say 486-66 with 16Kb RAM and Win 3.1

arizonachris wrote:

RvA944 wrote:8086............

I was gonna say 486-66 with 16Kb RAM and Win 3.1

You forgot on a Commodore 64 or Osborne 1...

The Intel 486 was pure crap. I was an AMD fan back then, was until the Athalon 3800+ (?)... I need to check. My MythTV is still running with it after all these years... kinda tells you something. Then I found the intel 8400... and I am still using that as my current CPU. All I have been changing these years is the Videocard.

If I remember correctly Commodore made their own chips, yet another testimony to solid engineering. They made a hell of a computer.

Now that we've derailed Blue Light's Thread I was an authorized Commodore Repair Center back in the day. Great little 8 bit machines. As for the 486, there is one I maintain for a video store that is still running just fine after over 20 years. Just runs a Point Of Sale program. all I do is dust it out every 6 months. Oh, replaced the PSU about 10 years ago.

hey I just made a funny........ I didn't derail this thread

Every time I move, I take the box with my Commodore 64 and floppy drives and bring it to the curb.
Then a few minutes later I go back for it and put it in the truck. It's like an old wife, I spent so many hours on it that I can't face getting rid of it, even if i don't use it anymore.

And even though I have a perfectly good C64 emulator on my PC!