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[Rocinantae]

Looking to totally rebuild except for the case. I prefer amd cpus, nvidia video cards, corsair ram. Ive been out of the loop for new hardware for a couple years. So my preferences could be dated. Any suggestions?

[Weeks]

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[Luccul]

OK, a couple of questions first. How old is the case and what's the power supply in it? Newer main boards and graphics cards come with newer power requirements/connectors that your power supply needs to give them. Also if the case is too old, it may not support the number and placement of connectors on today's main boards. Second, what's your budget? That will have a significant bearing on recommended parts. You realize that you may get a better PC for a better price by buying a whole new one than replacing parts in your current case? Do you have any other requirements? Me, I don't like a lot of noice from my machine, so I've gone for a quieter installation. If you've got any other requirements like that, let us know. I keep thinking of more questions: What are you current disks? Newer PCs are pretty well all SATA disks these days. Are you OK with moving data from older disks to newer SATA drives, or do you want to support the current drives?

[Rocinantae]

1 x Antec Performance One P180 Silver cold rolled steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail 1 x ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail 1 x AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo 2.2GHz Socket 939 Dual-Core Processor Model ADA4400CDBOX - Retail 1 x EVGA 512-P2-N575-AX GeForce 7900GTX 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Support Video Card - Retail 1 x ENERMAX Liberty ELT620AWT 620W ATX12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready Modular Active PFC Power Supply - Retail 1 x Creative SOUND BLASTER X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS 7.1 Channels PCI Interface Sound Card - Retail 4 x CORSAIR XMS 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) 1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue WD3200AAJS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive 1 x Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JD 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive I also run two lcd 19" monitors. Plus a 5.1 speaker system from creative. Dont really care about noise. Keeping everything cool is more important. Dont want to mess liquid cooling though. Budget is around 1K.

[Luccul]

What is it that your current system isn't doing for you? That's a nice looking "fit".

[xikorita]

it seems you just need a graphic card's update. Can that mobo run pci express 16x?

[Rocinantae]

Well id like to upgrade the motherboard as well as the graphics card. Theres a bug with it and my soundcard that is isolated to that specific chipset/motherboard. So that basically means replacing everything else. And instead of ripping it apart, id just assume start on a clean slate and hand this old pc to the wife who thinks pcs are good for school work and solitare. Ill just transfer over the soundcard to the new pc. Note: I dont want to run dual video cards.

[Jebei]

These are both helpful general guides to suggested component sets (Ars one is quite out of date...):


http://www.mysuperpc.com/

http://arstechnica.c...009-edition.ars

[Old Toterra]

In general.... if you go with an AMD cpu/motherboard you should consider an ATI graphics card. AMD and ATI merged a while back.

[Rocinantae]

Ok. Going for this processor. AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition Deneb 3.0GHz Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Processor Model Probably this mobo MSI 790XT-G45 AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 790X ATX AMD Motherboard Maybe this video card. SAPPHIRE 100282SR Radeon HD 5850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card w/ATI Eyefinity I like the eyefinity since I plan on linking up 3 monitors in the future. I just need to find a good heatsink fan and some ram. Does anything I have listed not match up?