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Greeting all, I'd like to preface this by saying this is my first post here on Tom'sHardware, so I hope everything I write is in a proper format and understandable by all. This will be my first attempt at building my own system. The reason behind building a new system is that my 4 year old IBuyPower pc has recently had some sort of malfunction where smoke was shooting out of the tower, and it will now not turn on at all.
My ideal budget for this pc would be around $800 USD shipped to Massachusetts.
I would ideally like to the cpu to be an amd fx 8320 since after reading posts on these boards, it seems to be a good value cpu, and I like the idea of the 8 cores for future gaming etc.
other than that I would just like to get the best combination of hardware that I can, while keeping me around $800. I do not need peripherals, and I don't think ill need an ssd. Overclocking is a possibility I'd like to explore so proper cooling would be a plus
**An important side question* Would it be possible to use the existing 750gb WD Caviar Green HD from the old fried pc. (Here's a link to the old pc if anyone's curious: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227183 ) The reasoning being it already has a windows 7 OS, and a lot of mp3's and other media I would like to save. I don't have any other details currently like the speeds etc, on the HD So if you guys think it may have slower rates and bottleneck the system or something, then let me know. If that's the case if you could give me some tips on getting files off the old HD and onto a new one that would be great.
Thanks in advance everyone!
My ideal budget for this pc would be around $800 USD shipped to Massachusetts.
I would ideally like to the cpu to be an amd fx 8320 since after reading posts on these boards, it seems to be a good value cpu, and I like the idea of the 8 cores for future gaming etc.
other than that I would just like to get the best combination of hardware that I can, while keeping me around $800. I do not need peripherals, and I don't think ill need an ssd. Overclocking is a possibility I'd like to explore so proper cooling would be a plus
**An important side question* Would it be possible to use the existing 750gb WD Caviar Green HD from the old fried pc. (Here's a link to the old pc if anyone's curious: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227183 ) The reasoning being it already has a windows 7 OS, and a lot of mp3's and other media I would like to save. I don't have any other details currently like the speeds etc, on the HD So if you guys think it may have slower rates and bottleneck the system or something, then let me know. If that's the case if you could give me some tips on getting files off the old HD and onto a new one that would be great.
Thanks in advance everyone!
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