Gotta start off by sayin great site to all involved! I'm looking to upgrade from an outdated system. Mainly its used for surfing playing a few games including The Witcher Series, WoW, Diablo 3, and some use of Photoshop CS 2 and 5. All with medium settings. This is what I'm upgrading from: HP Pavilion Media Center a1410n Desktop PC From that base setup I have upgraded the cpu to an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo 2.2GHz Socket 939 Dual-Core Processor which is as much as this old girl could handle on the stock mobo. After that I added a SAPPHIRE 100245L Radeon HD 4850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 connected to an Acer H243Hbmid 24" 2ms(GTG) HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor. Its been a very reliable system. This is going to be my first home build. I would like to keep it cheap and try to use the video card in my new set up if possible. Its a bit better than the on board graphics. I've found this deal which I would like everyones opinion on as a base running Windows 7:
GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-S2P AMD 760 AM3+ Motherboard and Corsair CMX4GX3M1A1333C9 XMS3 4GB DDR3 RAM and Diablotek CPA-9611B ATX Mid-Tower Case and Ult Bundle
AMD HDZ965FBK4DGM Phenom II X4 965 Processor - Quad Core, 6MB L3 Cache, 2MB L2 Cache, 3.40GHz, Socket AM3, 125W, No Fan, OEM
WD Blue WD5000AAKX 500GB Desktop Hard Drive - 3.5", SATA, 7200RPM, 16MB Cache
Cooler Master V8 CPU Fan - Socket 1366/775/AM2/AM2+,1156, AM3 120mm Fan, Modular Aluminum Fins
Over clocking has never been an option of mine. I might though as this build becomes outdated before an upgrade. I'm trying to upgrade as much as possible as cheeply as I can. I'm planing on buying by the end of the month to catch the rebate deal on the mobo combo. Would it be possible to get more bang for my buck than this set up including the OS cost? Also, is there anything I forgot?
GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-S2P AMD 760 AM3+ Motherboard and Corsair CMX4GX3M1A1333C9 XMS3 4GB DDR3 RAM and Diablotek CPA-9611B ATX Mid-Tower Case and Ult Bundle
AMD HDZ965FBK4DGM Phenom II X4 965 Processor - Quad Core, 6MB L3 Cache, 2MB L2 Cache, 3.40GHz, Socket AM3, 125W, No Fan, OEM
WD Blue WD5000AAKX 500GB Desktop Hard Drive - 3.5", SATA, 7200RPM, 16MB Cache
Cooler Master V8 CPU Fan - Socket 1366/775/AM2/AM2+,1156, AM3 120mm Fan, Modular Aluminum Fins
Over clocking has never been an option of mine. I might though as this build becomes outdated before an upgrade. I'm trying to upgrade as much as possible as cheeply as I can. I'm planing on buying by the end of the month to catch the rebate deal on the mobo combo. Would it be possible to get more bang for my buck than this set up including the OS cost? Also, is there anything I forgot?