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Intel17 said:
If you're planning on reusing your HDD, then that's a horrible idea for a new build. It'll severely bottleneck whatever faster PC you get. Just get this build:



Athlon II X4 640
ASRock M3A770DE
2x4GB G.Skill Value DDR3-1333
Seagate 1TB 7200 RPM HDD
Antec Earthwatts 380W PSU
Thermaltake V3 chasis
Radeon 6670 1GB w/ GDDR5 (NOT DDR3)
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I already got. A build and I'm not building yet so....
 
I would spend the extra $15 on a MB with USB3.0 to be future-proof (like the MSI 870A-G46), and drop the 1TB HDD in favor of an 80GB or 120GB SSD for about the same price (I got my 80GB Intel 320 for $82AR), but other than that given the games you play the system Intel17 listed would probably last you a long, long time. If in a year your 250GB HDD isn't enough for storage anymore, you can always add a 1TB or 2TB drive once prices have dropped.

My current computer in the office is an E4500 (2.2GHz) with a passive HD2400 GPU running Win7 on 1GB ram (temporarily) but a 120GB SSD, and it feels plenty responsive. I wouldn't want to run a modern game on it, but it works great for Office, browsing and Youtube and it's almost completely silent. Image editing is a bit of a stretch if you have several large images open, but even with that the SSD removes a lot of the pain of going to the swap file. I'm really surprised you find 1GB to be such a bottleneck right now, my old computer sitting in my workshop had a 2500+ Barton with 512MB of RAM and XP SP3, and it had no problem with a couple big PDF datasheets open and running MPLAP IDE.
 
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I am pretty sure you can upgrade the bios on the motherboard and drop in a Q6600 cpu. I had a dell dimension with a pentium d 930 cpu at 3ghz and it played cod4 fine but other then that games ran like shit on it at 1366x768 or 1920x1080

I put a corsair cx430 in it and a 8800gt and i could only get 30fps max on fallout 3, new vegas was a damn slide show. The pentium d as a whole really sucks for gaming.
 
T_Yamamoto said:
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Holy shit! I thought you said you reinstalled Windows! No wonder you're bogging down, you have half your RAM filled already on startup. It must take you like 5 minutes to boot that thing.

Really, it looks like you can disable EVERYTHING except avgtray (that's your antivirus) and maybe Skype depending on how you use that. Although CNMSUT has something to do with a Canon scanner, it might not be needed for your usage. You can disable it, reboot, try to scan as normal -- if it doesn't work just reenable it and reboot and it'll be back to normal.

Also how many extensions do you have in Firefox? A 56MB plugin-container.exe folder seems huge.

Anyway, here's my msconfig for comparison:
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Antivirus, Nvidia's control panel, and Google Update which Chrome insists on.
 
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Listen to Dominion, and I'd also recommend dumping AVG for Microsoft Security Essentials, it's even lighter resource-wise and a bit more effective against spyware than AVG is. Zero nag as well.
 
i did reinstall windows. lol

then i installed all my crap again

EDIT1:AVG uninstalling froze. lol
EDIT2: trying to uninstall, making me mad af
EDIT3: still stuck. looks like im deleteing it that hard way
EDIT4: it deleted. thank goodness
 
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Bman123 said:
Sounds like your having a hell of a time fixing that...
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This is what happens when you are impatient as hell. And when your memory is pegged and cpu seems to be slow af. I open up Facebook and try to okay words with friend. The computer imediiately begins to lag like crazy lol
 
T_Yamamoto said:
This is what happens when you are impatient as hell. And when your memory is pegged and cpu seems to be slow af. I open up Facebook and try to okay words with friend. The computer imediiately begins to lag like crazy lol
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Memory management isn't rocket science. How the hell are you still having problems?

Honestly, if you can't run an XP rig, you should probably just get an iPad.
 
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