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Hi, I am going to be doing my first PC build in a few days (eagerly awaiting PSU). While going through tutorials online, people have been warning a lot about static discharge, damaging the components. I have read about anti-static wrist bands, but problem is they are not easily available in my...

thanks bononos...another quick question. I was checking comparison reviews of HD7770 vs HD6850. I am able to get either of them for the same price. In reviews they showed that HD6850 has few fps better ratings than HD7770 in many games. But even these slightly better fps does not give HD6850...

Another important doubt, i misquoted my Display type as 19'' 1366 x 768. But i am going for 21.5'' 1920 x 1080. Kindly inform if it will affect my current configuration in any way. And also will the GPU/CPU support higher resolutions without any issue. Finally what will be the impact on any...

Thanks for the suggestion inf1nity and Steltek, well i will be spending maximum time on my PC doing non gaming stuff and as for gaming i will be limiting myself to AOE2HD (Online), CS (Online), NFSMW, COD4, Assassins2...even that would be stretching it a bit as (AOE and CS mostly). So do you...

Oh and found another one as available - Gigabyte AMD/ATI GV-R777OC-1GD ($6 costlier) I guess this one's stock over clocked. So back to the initial question, which one out of the 3 mentioned - Sapphire, Gigabyte, PowerColor :)

I am having alternative to buy Sapphire AMD/ATI HD 7770 ($24 costlier) and PowerColor AMD/ATI HD 7770 ($4 costlier). Few questions: 1. Is Sapphire one's at advisable to buy for the price difference. 2. Is Powercolor recognized for its good products. Its just that have never heard of it (to...

Thanks for the suggestion, but i am hitting the upper limit of my initial budget pretty hard with the current specs, so any thing over it is tough...any other insight would be greatly appreciated... :)

Thanks for the thoughtful advice, i realized the bit about 3570k and h77 soon after posting. Well i have downgraded to i5-3550, as most places online suggested it for being equally potent as its k counter part, except for overclocking abilities. Also i won't be playing much high end games, so...

Hi, This is my first time building PC and hence the jitters. Following is my finalized configuration after hours of googling and expert advice (*Friends) CPU Intel Core i5-3550 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor Motherboard ASRock H77 Pro4/MVP ATX LGA1155 Motherboard Memory Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x...