Hey everyone,
I've had a homebuilt system for about three years now, and it's starting to feel its age. I'm looking to build a new system around summer, say between June and August, so now I'm at the stage where I'm starting to do my research. I haven't really been following hardware developments over the past three years, so unfortunately I have to start from scratch. Basically I'm looking for advice from the technophiles here on a few of the basic components, and perhaps what to look at over the next few months as new products are released.
I'm looking to build a gaming rig, and probably will be making the jump to Vista at this point. My budget is roughly between 2-3k.
My old system is an:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+
2.21 GHz
2 GB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX
At this point, I'm interested in thoughts and comments on suggested motherboards, RAM, CPU, and video cards. I've also heard that Intel is the way to go for processors this generation, but I'm not sure if that's true.
Any advice or discussion would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.
-Bolgard
I've had a homebuilt system for about three years now, and it's starting to feel its age. I'm looking to build a new system around summer, say between June and August, so now I'm at the stage where I'm starting to do my research. I haven't really been following hardware developments over the past three years, so unfortunately I have to start from scratch. Basically I'm looking for advice from the technophiles here on a few of the basic components, and perhaps what to look at over the next few months as new products are released.
I'm looking to build a gaming rig, and probably will be making the jump to Vista at this point. My budget is roughly between 2-3k.
My old system is an:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+
2.21 GHz
2 GB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX
At this point, I'm interested in thoughts and comments on suggested motherboards, RAM, CPU, and video cards. I've also heard that Intel is the way to go for processors this generation, but I'm not sure if that's true.
Any advice or discussion would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.
-Bolgard