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new pc build, way overdue

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M16Grenadier

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OK, my old desky that I built in 2005 died a month or two ago, and I am tired of using my laptop for everything...

I haven't posted on these forums in years, hopefully someone will bring me up to date...

1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
Light gaming, random work, browsing internet. Needs to be somewhat future-proof

2. What YOUR budget is.
500-550 USD, including $250 newegg gift certificate. For hardware only

3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
USA

4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc.
AMD-Fanboy. Need a quad-core

5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.

Hard Drive: 250 GB WD SATA II
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO PCI-Express
Monitor: DELL 22 inch Widescreen @ 1600x900 Native Res
Sound Card: SB Audigy 2 Value

7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
stock speeds

9. WHEN do you plan to build it?
A.S.A.P.


I need a new case, too, I have a CHENMING server case that is built like an APC but it is too bulky. I wish they still made them, then I would have just bought a smaller size in black.

I need a quad-core, mobo, 4 GB ram, a DVD-burner, new mouse/keyboard, case, and PSU.

Please help, I have no idea about current hardware
 
I can't get to Newegg right now but I'm thinking:

Amd Athlon x4 635 (101$ version)
G.skill eco series 1333 1.35 volt DDR3 (~85$)
Asrock 870 extreme 3 OR Asrock 880g extreme 3 (~90-110$)
Generic OD w/ lightscribe 20$
Antec illusion 300 60$ (probably, no, definitely overkill, but leaves room for ugprades)

376

You could spend from 50-100$ depending on the specific PSU you want, I'm crazy and like gold PSUs for ~90$, but a good bronze could be had for 50$ or less. If you spend less, then there's room for a new HD/SSD, which is probably a much more noticeable improvement.

That leaves 75 for a mouse/keyboard of your choice.

Parts in bold are my personal advice, unbold is very solid, objective advice (with a special focus towards low power, 8XX series mobo, low voltage ram).
 
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fact: future proof is an utopical concept.

I don't know about the cpu and motherboard, but 1333 ram is good, you may want to check timings too.
I would buy a good psu, but not overkill, this way you don't spend all the money, and in some time you will be able to buy an SSD which is a much more noticeable improvement for such a computer (just make sure you use windows 7 64 bit on this computer 😛, you need to use the 4gb of ram now and may need TRIM in the future if you get an ssd)
 
OC SuperCombo: $428 ($403 after rebates) "while supplies last"

# Antec Three Hundred + BP430w
# MSI 890GXM-G65
# Phenom 955BE
# Kingston 2x2gb DDR3 1333

I believe the Samsung 22x optical is around $20.


edit: You would be somewhat 'utopical' with the 890gx. MSI has been great in the recent past with BIOS updates, and with good Karma you may be sliding into a BD Zambezi in a year or so .....

And the Kingston SSD Now V Series 64GB is $135 before a $30 rebate.






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