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Jonrojas

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Approximate Purchase Date: 7-14 days

Budget Range: 500-600 (might be willing to spend a bit more under the right circumstances)

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming (modern games) Streaming movies, web surfing.

Are you buying a monitor: No



Parts to Upgrade: Please note that I have a GTX 660 that I need advice on keeping or not.

Do you need to buy OS: Yes
Please note that if you're using an OEM license of Windows, you will need a new one when buying a new motherboard.

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Any, but I have Amazon Prime

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California

Parts Preferences: open to your recommendations.

Overclocking: No, unless it comes overclocked.

SLI or Crossfire: Maybe

Your Monitor Resolution: 2560x1440

Additional Comments: Quiet is always good

And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: Old build is on it's way out.



Thanks.
 
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Eduello

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No SLI or overclocking:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($204.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock B85 Pro4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($74.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: A-Data XPG V1.0 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($69.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($56.98 @ OutletPC)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($14.98 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $601.89
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-06-03 05:26 EDT-0400)

Combine that with your old GPU and you've got yourself a very capable gaming PC.
 
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Jonrojas

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@ Eduello I suppose I should list my current build to find out how big of an upgrade it will be. So here goes. Thank you again for the reply!

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name ROJAS-PC
System Manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC.
System Model System Product Name
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz, 2668 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 0502, 5/11/2009
SMBIOS Version 2.5
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume3
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
User Name Rojas-PC\Rojas
Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 9.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 8.99 GB
Available Physical Memory 6.18 GB
Total Virtual Memory 18.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 14.9 GB
Page File Space 8.99 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
 
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Aspire77360

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A new CPU, which would so a new motherboard. RAm should be alright
 
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