Recent content by Comandante Iago

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    New to the board and new to PC building. Please help me with a gaming rig.

    Thank you guys. I'm going to go ahead and order my parts. You have been most useful.
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    New to the board and new to PC building. Please help me with a gaming rig.

    Sonnygdude: Thank you. Running at 1680 x 1050 do you still think it'd be worth a 1GB 4870 instead of a 512? I've pretty much sure I'm going for a 4870 instead of the 4850 I have listed up there. I won't regret having too much power... Also, is it worthwhile to go to 8GB of RAM like you have?
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    New to the board and new to PC building. Please help me with a gaming rig.

    Thank you for the encouragement. Everything seemed to make sense to me, but I wanted a reality check. I'm glad that it does. Once I get all of my parts I will no doubt be back on here asking for some more help.
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    New to the board and new to PC building. Please help me with a gaming rig.

    Thank you guys. Sonnygdude: You say that you're running something similar. May I ask what? And would you do anything differently? Akugami: I didn't realize that the 4870 was down that low, thought it was closer to $300. I'll take a look. And I will check out zipzoomfly.com As for...
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    New to the board and new to PC building. Please help me with a gaming rig.

    Hello all, I?ve been lurking on this site and others for a couple of weeks now researching computer bits. I want to build a new system. I?ve never done it before, but think it could be a lot of fun and yield a bitching setup. I have always been a mac guy, but I?d like to game, I?d like to...