Alright guys, here is the situation. My brothers 16th birthday is coming up next month and I have been wanting to do something nice for him. I have decided the best thing that I could do is upgrade his computer. His current setup is pretty decent, as hes running on an e7400, 4 gigs of ddr2 800(on 32-bit vista, though... lol) and a 9600gt. This build has been doing great for a while as he only played stuff like CS:S, garrys mod and other various source engine games. However, lately he has been diving into some more demanding games like Mortal Online and Mass Effect 2. So to keep it short, he is playing more demanding games and his computer is starting to reach its limits.
What I wish I could do is just get him a 470gtx or 5850, but I am pretty sure that e7400 would become a bottleneck. So I looked at grabbing him an i5, new ram, motherboard and 64-bit os to go along with a 465 gtx. That puts the price at about 900 dollars, which is an issue. The max I want to spend is ~700.
This is where I want some extra input. My plan b is to grab him either a Q8400 or Q8300, a $30 cooler and then also his gpu+64-bit OS. I figured I could finally try my hand at a decent overclock and put him at around 3.2 ghz on one of those cpus.
So CPU+Cooler+OS+470gtx is about 700 bucks. What are your thoughts on this situation?
What I wish I could do is just get him a 470gtx or 5850, but I am pretty sure that e7400 would become a bottleneck. So I looked at grabbing him an i5, new ram, motherboard and 64-bit os to go along with a 465 gtx. That puts the price at about 900 dollars, which is an issue. The max I want to spend is ~700.
This is where I want some extra input. My plan b is to grab him either a Q8400 or Q8300, a $30 cooler and then also his gpu+64-bit OS. I figured I could finally try my hand at a decent overclock and put him at around 3.2 ghz on one of those cpus.
So CPU+Cooler+OS+470gtx is about 700 bucks. What are your thoughts on this situation?
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