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going for an overhaul
keviny1:
At the moment I'm mostly playing starcraft 2 and borderlands. When done with borderlands I was gonna get farcry 2. Was considering getting cod black ops aswell if it could run as good if not better than on my 360
keviny1:
Ya everything I've gotten for my pc so far I've gotten from newegg and I found them very reliable. Thanks for the advice I think I will go for the upgrade just gonna do some more research based off your help.
mgz:
--- Quote from: keviny1 on September 03, 2010, 09:14:01 PM ---At the moment I'm mostly playing starcraft 2 and borderlands. When done with borderlands I was gonna get farcry 2. Was considering getting cod black ops aswell if it could run as good if not better than on my 360
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if you plan on playing doing anything other then single player i wouldnt waste time with CoD on the PC at this point in time its basically the console version with a mouse and keyboard now since they made everything retard friendly
fohfoh:
I think you should consider upgrading your HDD first and see if the performance gets better.
5400pm vs 7200rpm is night and day. Going higher is even better, not to mention cheaper than going all out on certain parts that might still be bottle necked by the HDD. Raptors aren't bad for the price atm. SSD is even better, but would really eat away at the $400 budget.
Did you ever spend time looking at your windows experience index to see where your weaknesses are before considering your options?
I don't know... maybe it's just me, but what you're proposing doesn't really seem like a total overhaul to me. If I had to go with an i5 or i7 build, I'd go for broke and go brand new for everything instead of reusing. With your setup, I'd consider either HDD, then I believe your mobo should still fit higher end phenom cpus? Less work, you get your performance, and it's cheaper. Not as cool as the i5, but do you really need the i5?
Also, did you consider OCing your processor?
http://www.overclock.net/amd-cpus/336323-help-ocing-amd-phenom-quad-core.html
(This one is your proc I think)
keviny1:
Well if I did get a new cpu mobo and ram the only thing that would be reused would be one of the hardrives because I have a new case (haf932) gpu is pretty much brand new as well. Also both HDD are 7200.
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