OK thanks. I've got the price down to 400$ using 4GB of ram, no AS5, no PSU.
Could I save 30$ more by not buying the Coolermaster? I figure I can probably get 4Ghz overclock with the intel cooler.
Yeah maybe it was overkill for the video card lol.
OK, so say I get an overhaul, what do you recommend ?
I see things like:
AM3 MSI 870-G45 (60$) + X3 450 3.2 Ghz (85$)
or
i3 550 (133$) + MSI P55A-G55 P55 (100$)
+RAM (60$).
I have about 100$ to spend so that's not an option.
Edit: For 140$ I get 4GB XMS2 Corsair Ram + E6500 (2.93Ghz 2MB). Do you think that would make a big difference in performance?
Bought a radeon 6850 and I'm now thinking that my E2200 (2.2 Ghz 1MB L2) might be too slow. I'm OCing it to 2.8Ghz so I get some extra performance.
I wanted to upgrade, but Dual Core and Quad cores are really expensive.
I could get a E6800 for 100 bucks (100$ CAN) on NCIX (3.33 GHZ 2MB) (I'm...
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