My old gaming machine recently started crashing in Source games, so I decided to crack it open and dust it out to see if that would help any.
When I removed the heatsink, I was greeted with 5 or 6 leaking capacitors in the CPU socket area.
Since I've dealt with leaky caps before and I'm pretty sure it's only a matter of time before this system becomes unbootable, I figure this is as good a time as any to upgrade. So, does anyone have any decent suggestions for a new CPU/Motherboard/Memory on a budget of around $300 (us) ? I'll be keeping all the other parts from the computer in my sig.
When I removed the heatsink, I was greeted with 5 or 6 leaking capacitors in the CPU socket area.
Since I've dealt with leaky caps before and I'm pretty sure it's only a matter of time before this system becomes unbootable, I figure this is as good a time as any to upgrade. So, does anyone have any decent suggestions for a new CPU/Motherboard/Memory on a budget of around $300 (us) ? I'll be keeping all the other parts from the computer in my sig.