After discovering for sure that my laptop was not good enough for development with the Oculus Rift SDK, I decided an attempt at making a desktop that was powerful enough, but not too much above $600 total.
Problem is I ordered the parts and only afterward realized that there are some compatibility issues (stupid on my part, I know). I was using the PC Parts maker, and then tried to order everything off of amazon.
For the processor I got the AMD A8 3850. It was relatively inexpensive, however it uses a FM1 socket, this does not go with the ASRock 880GM-LE FX motherboard that I ordered.
Furthermore it appears that both the motherboard and processor have an integrated videocard with the ability to cross with other specialized video cards. I ordered a MSI NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 2GB GDDR3, which looked powerful, but not too expensive.
So the question is, do I attempt to get a refund for 2 of the three, or all three and try over again?
The case, monitor, keyboard, mouse, hard-drive, and optical drive should have no issues.
Problem is I ordered the parts and only afterward realized that there are some compatibility issues (stupid on my part, I know). I was using the PC Parts maker, and then tried to order everything off of amazon.
For the processor I got the AMD A8 3850. It was relatively inexpensive, however it uses a FM1 socket, this does not go with the ASRock 880GM-LE FX motherboard that I ordered.
Furthermore it appears that both the motherboard and processor have an integrated videocard with the ability to cross with other specialized video cards. I ordered a MSI NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 2GB GDDR3, which looked powerful, but not too expensive.
So the question is, do I attempt to get a refund for 2 of the three, or all three and try over again?
The case, monitor, keyboard, mouse, hard-drive, and optical drive should have no issues.
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