Marshillboy
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So I've been out of the computer scene for awhile. Very recently, however, my motherboard's PCI-E slot graciously decided to give out. I'm frankly sick of dealing with it and all the slot failure and crap it's been giving me. I don't have time to wait for an RMA as this is my primary PC, and I'm just going to sell it as-is and rebuild.
All this trouble started when I just put an accelero s1 on my 4850 and then the bigger cooler tipped my zalman northbridge heatsink a little which I then tried to alleviate, then my pci-e slot mysteriously stopped working, and enough is enough. I'm keeping my 4850 for my next rig (especially seeing as I just put a new cooler on it), but frankly I think everything else has to go.
Anyways, long story short, I'm looking at building a mid-price range computer (I already have a brand new 23" asus monitor, an HD4850, other functioning peripherals, and a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate), but the array of cpus and matching motherboards is frankly overwhelming. For $500 to mid-600 (maybe), what is my best best? AMD/Intel, Phenom/i3/i5/i7?
Thanks,
Marshillboy
All this trouble started when I just put an accelero s1 on my 4850 and then the bigger cooler tipped my zalman northbridge heatsink a little which I then tried to alleviate, then my pci-e slot mysteriously stopped working, and enough is enough. I'm keeping my 4850 for my next rig (especially seeing as I just put a new cooler on it), but frankly I think everything else has to go.
Anyways, long story short, I'm looking at building a mid-price range computer (I already have a brand new 23" asus monitor, an HD4850, other functioning peripherals, and a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate), but the array of cpus and matching motherboards is frankly overwhelming. For $500 to mid-600 (maybe), what is my best best? AMD/Intel, Phenom/i3/i5/i7?
Thanks,
Marshillboy