Taurus
hardware monkey
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my buddy got his stimulus check and wants to finally upgrade his socket A system. we'll be reusing as much of his old stuff as possible (case, harddrive, dvd burner). his cap is $600 but i already picked out a good power supply which cuts it down to $500 left. and spending less is always better.
here are the other parts i was considering...
motherboard:
ASUS M3N-HD HDMI (nvidia 750a) $175
GIGABYTE GA-MA770-DS3 (AMD 770) $95
processor:
Athlon X2 4850e (2.5GHz, 45W) $90
memory:
G.SKILL 2 x 2GB DDR2 800 $80
video card:
ECS 9600GT 512MB $140
I've always been the go-to computer guy among my friends and built his current comp years ago. and i've always been an AMD + nvidia guy which still pretty much holds true. i say pretty much because i know current Intel offerings are generally a better option. but i don't really know much about them or the available chipsets.
his priority is gaming (battlefield 2, in particular) which is why i have the 750a board there with it's SLI for future-proofing. but the board/chipset is still very new. makes me nervous.
so what is a good Intel cpu/motherboard/memory combo for roughly $300?
here are the other parts i was considering...
motherboard:
ASUS M3N-HD HDMI (nvidia 750a) $175
GIGABYTE GA-MA770-DS3 (AMD 770) $95
processor:
Athlon X2 4850e (2.5GHz, 45W) $90
memory:
G.SKILL 2 x 2GB DDR2 800 $80
video card:
ECS 9600GT 512MB $140
I've always been the go-to computer guy among my friends and built his current comp years ago. and i've always been an AMD + nvidia guy which still pretty much holds true. i say pretty much because i know current Intel offerings are generally a better option. but i don't really know much about them or the available chipsets.
his priority is gaming (battlefield 2, in particular) which is why i have the 750a board there with it's SLI for future-proofing. but the board/chipset is still very new. makes me nervous.
so what is a good Intel cpu/motherboard/memory combo for roughly $300?
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