- Mar 30, 2014
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So recently the motherboard on my Acer Aspier M5100 got scratched by some screws, and after bringing it in for inspection, everything is fine except the mother board.
The specs of the PC can be found here: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3596009 I upgraded nothing, it has the same Phenom Quad core, 4gb DDR2 ram (4 sticks of 1gb) and a Nvidia GS 8600 (512mb) GPU
I am on a very very tight budget with school and all, and want to spend the least amount of money for a new gaming rig, I understand that I won't be able to get 60FPS on BF4 Ultra running 1920x1080, but I want to get the best I can.
Recently I got an unused GTX 480 from a friend, he had it in his rig, but took it out because he thought it didn't work (He was getting no signal input error) when I reality it was the seating of his ram. So he got a new GFx card, and then finally figured out it was the ram, so all in all I got a basically new 480 that's only been fired up once (By me yesterday to test it)
All I have is that computer I linked, the 480 and a budget of around 400$ (MAYBE , but not preferably 500) I plan to overclock this, use it to stream, play games, record and edit videos, as well as program and render using the Unity Engine
What I want: I want to build a gaming rig using my 480, that will be able to hold itself for 2-3 more years, and play most games at a decent frame rate running a 1920x1080p monitor. I was thinking about getting a new mobo (AM3+ 90$) an fx 8350(150$) or a fx-6300 (100$), 1 stick of 4gb DDR3 ram(30$), a 40$ case, I have an Orion 480w PSU from the Acer, but I heard that the 480 is power hungry, and if I got a 6 core or 8 core CPU I would probably need a beefier PSU like a 850w PSU.(80$) and then slapping the 480 in it. I already have an OS and all the peripherals I need.
The main thing with this rig is that it will turn into a 1000$+ rig once I upgrade it, so I don't want anything bottlenecked, and I want to be able to upgrade it. I know that if I end up spending that much money on high-end GPU's that I will probably have to get a new PSU.
The thing is, in 4-5 months, I plan on upgrading it. By 6 months, I should have at least 500$ to upgrade it, so I don't want to build it at this price, I want to build something upgradable for this price, as currently I don't have a rig to use.
A question I have: In 4-5 months when I get more money, I was planning on putting a 780 or 770 ti in this rig, but I don't want the 480 to go to waste, can I slap the 780 and the 480 to Dual SLI?
I'm not incompetent with computers, it's that I don't really understand SLI and Crossfire, besides ones for AMD and ones for Nvidia, and the fact that they use both GPU's to work together instead of separately.
I was also wondering about the 8600gs that I have, could I use that with the 480 in SLI?
And finally, could I sell or use some of the parts from my M5100 to help me with this rig?
The specs of the PC can be found here: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3596009 I upgraded nothing, it has the same Phenom Quad core, 4gb DDR2 ram (4 sticks of 1gb) and a Nvidia GS 8600 (512mb) GPU
I am on a very very tight budget with school and all, and want to spend the least amount of money for a new gaming rig, I understand that I won't be able to get 60FPS on BF4 Ultra running 1920x1080, but I want to get the best I can.
Recently I got an unused GTX 480 from a friend, he had it in his rig, but took it out because he thought it didn't work (He was getting no signal input error) when I reality it was the seating of his ram. So he got a new GFx card, and then finally figured out it was the ram, so all in all I got a basically new 480 that's only been fired up once (By me yesterday to test it)
All I have is that computer I linked, the 480 and a budget of around 400$ (MAYBE , but not preferably 500) I plan to overclock this, use it to stream, play games, record and edit videos, as well as program and render using the Unity Engine
What I want: I want to build a gaming rig using my 480, that will be able to hold itself for 2-3 more years, and play most games at a decent frame rate running a 1920x1080p monitor. I was thinking about getting a new mobo (AM3+ 90$) an fx 8350(150$) or a fx-6300 (100$), 1 stick of 4gb DDR3 ram(30$), a 40$ case, I have an Orion 480w PSU from the Acer, but I heard that the 480 is power hungry, and if I got a 6 core or 8 core CPU I would probably need a beefier PSU like a 850w PSU.(80$) and then slapping the 480 in it. I already have an OS and all the peripherals I need.
The main thing with this rig is that it will turn into a 1000$+ rig once I upgrade it, so I don't want anything bottlenecked, and I want to be able to upgrade it. I know that if I end up spending that much money on high-end GPU's that I will probably have to get a new PSU.
The thing is, in 4-5 months, I plan on upgrading it. By 6 months, I should have at least 500$ to upgrade it, so I don't want to build it at this price, I want to build something upgradable for this price, as currently I don't have a rig to use.
A question I have: In 4-5 months when I get more money, I was planning on putting a 780 or 770 ti in this rig, but I don't want the 480 to go to waste, can I slap the 780 and the 480 to Dual SLI?
I'm not incompetent with computers, it's that I don't really understand SLI and Crossfire, besides ones for AMD and ones for Nvidia, and the fact that they use both GPU's to work together instead of separately.
I was also wondering about the 8600gs that I have, could I use that with the 480 in SLI?
And finally, could I sell or use some of the parts from my M5100 to help me with this rig?
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