The desision has been made for me; mobo seems to be dead. Dang it!
Now looking looking at an i5 4690k and a Z97 mobo ($125-$175) and a 970 GTX. Will reuse everything else.
Anyone want to recommend a mobo?
"Fairly cheap" on the CPU would be less than about $125.
What I'd like to do is get another 2-3 years out of this rig and then build another midrange beast, which is what this was (roughly) in it's day. I feel like the demands of new games have slowed down a quiet a bit (or I have!) so my...
1. Uses: Gaming: modern FPS, MMRPGs (Guild Wars 2)
2. Budget: Id like to keep it around $550. This upgrade is all about price for performance.
3. Country: USA
4. OUTSIDE the US?: N/A
5. Brand Preference: Not a fan of Seagate. No, it is not rational. Move on; nothing to see here.
6...
Dune 2 . . . I think that was my first RTS. Man I loved that game.
On topic, I have a PIII 550 that still sees weekly use and a Athlon 2100+ that my kids use all the time for basic web. That Athlon was the first computer I ever assembled, going on 10 years ago. Dang.
Tiger Direct has some too, found through Amazon.
Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 1 GB DDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card 100282SR
http://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-Radeo...9942192&sr=8-2
Check your link. It's listed on the search page for what you posted, but when you click the link, here or inside amazon, it comes up wrong.
Here's the right link for $89.99-$25.00 rebate=$64.99AR w/ free standard shipping.
http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-TWIN2X...9350781&sr=1-1
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