Subject
Upgrade time. Why? My motherboard died for mysterious reasons. Keep in mind this is a 3 year old rig.
Specs:
- PSU: OCZ Game X Stream 600 Watts
- MB: GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L
- CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo e6750 @ 2.66 GHz, 4 MB L2 Cache, 65 nm
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, 512 MB, Superclocked version
- RAM: G.Skill 2 x 2 GB (4 GB) DDR2 1066 MHz Memory
(I do not plan on upgrading the rest of the components, no real point)
What it needs to handle
- Gaming: Bad Company 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Source Games, Starcraft 2, etc...
- Media: Encoding, converting, etc...
- Multitasking: Several Chrome tabs, instant messaging, music playing, scanning pictures/files, etc...
So far I'm thinking
- i5 760 + ATI 5770 (Will this be be strong and last me 2-3 years?).
- No clue about which DDR3 RAM to get or motherboard
Budget
Flexible, let's start around $600. (I know how these things work... you add this, then that, yadda yadda, boom bam bing and you're over $9,000!)
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Thanks in advance!
Upgrade time. Why? My motherboard died for mysterious reasons. Keep in mind this is a 3 year old rig.
Specs:
- PSU: OCZ Game X Stream 600 Watts
- MB: GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L
- CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo e6750 @ 2.66 GHz, 4 MB L2 Cache, 65 nm
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, 512 MB, Superclocked version
- RAM: G.Skill 2 x 2 GB (4 GB) DDR2 1066 MHz Memory
(I do not plan on upgrading the rest of the components, no real point)
What it needs to handle
- Gaming: Bad Company 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Source Games, Starcraft 2, etc...
- Media: Encoding, converting, etc...
- Multitasking: Several Chrome tabs, instant messaging, music playing, scanning pictures/files, etc...
So far I'm thinking
- i5 760 + ATI 5770 (Will this be be strong and last me 2-3 years?).
- No clue about which DDR3 RAM to get or motherboard
Budget
Flexible, let's start around $600. (I know how these things work... you add this, then that, yadda yadda, boom bam bing and you're over $9,000!)
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Thanks in advance!