- Apr 14, 2013
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Howdy all,
I am in the process of piecing a desktop together that I'd like to game on. I don't have much to work with right now, and am picking up the 3 major pieces from a rig my old roommate was running as part of an audio-processing machine that has since been upgraded for $100. I'm grabbing his old motherboard (GIGABYTE GA-MA770-DS3), processor (AM2 dual-core) and RAM (6GB DDR2). Honestly, the only reason I am going about things in this fashion is that I don't have much of anything to start with for this build. Obviously, I'd like to start with something different, but doing things this way allows me to afford all the other pieces/accessories/peripherals I'd like to have in the finished rig, leaving me to only have to upgrade the 3 above pieces at a later date and be 100% finished. I would only really expect to have to run these 3 pieces in this all-but-finished rig for about 8-9 months before I can completely replace them with the pieces I'd really wanted to use.
My question is with that particular motherboard, 6GB of RAM, and the eVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST that I planned to purchase for the rig - assuming I will have a basic AM2 dual core processor - what is the best processor I could upgrade to/plug into that motherboard that would allow me to run this thing without constantly wanting to toss the whole thing out the window? The GIGABYTE website claims the board only supports AM2/AM2+ processors, but I have been seeing and reading in other threads claims that certain boards that support AM2+ processors will also accommodate an AM3. Since I cannot find anything regarding AM3 on this particular motherboard, I figured it was time to create a thread and ask the community.
The 3 games I'll be wanting to install and run immediately after getting up and running will be Diablo3, SCII, and WoW. Obviously, the goal is to be able to run all of those at the highest graphic settings. Also, I obviously am planning for that list of games to grow once I get up and running and see what my capabilities/limitations are. Any advice and/or guidance here would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
I am in the process of piecing a desktop together that I'd like to game on. I don't have much to work with right now, and am picking up the 3 major pieces from a rig my old roommate was running as part of an audio-processing machine that has since been upgraded for $100. I'm grabbing his old motherboard (GIGABYTE GA-MA770-DS3), processor (AM2 dual-core) and RAM (6GB DDR2). Honestly, the only reason I am going about things in this fashion is that I don't have much of anything to start with for this build. Obviously, I'd like to start with something different, but doing things this way allows me to afford all the other pieces/accessories/peripherals I'd like to have in the finished rig, leaving me to only have to upgrade the 3 above pieces at a later date and be 100% finished. I would only really expect to have to run these 3 pieces in this all-but-finished rig for about 8-9 months before I can completely replace them with the pieces I'd really wanted to use.
My question is with that particular motherboard, 6GB of RAM, and the eVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST that I planned to purchase for the rig - assuming I will have a basic AM2 dual core processor - what is the best processor I could upgrade to/plug into that motherboard that would allow me to run this thing without constantly wanting to toss the whole thing out the window? The GIGABYTE website claims the board only supports AM2/AM2+ processors, but I have been seeing and reading in other threads claims that certain boards that support AM2+ processors will also accommodate an AM3. Since I cannot find anything regarding AM3 on this particular motherboard, I figured it was time to create a thread and ask the community.
The 3 games I'll be wanting to install and run immediately after getting up and running will be Diablo3, SCII, and WoW. Obviously, the goal is to be able to run all of those at the highest graphic settings. Also, I obviously am planning for that list of games to grow once I get up and running and see what my capabilities/limitations are. Any advice and/or guidance here would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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