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Right, so my poor machine has started to finally show it's age. It can no longer run any game that comes out. I got this thing from Gateway three years ago, and with the exception of an ATI card that was a piece of crap (ATI's driver installation files didn't recognize it as an ATI card for over a year after buying it, AND I'd always be the one guy who had the strange crashing problems few others had), it's been a relatively decent machine.
Now I need a new one though. Badly. However, the last time I built a computer, I barely helped, AND I was something like 8 years old (it was a 486). Hardware is not my forte. So I need help.
I already figure I'm going to go with AMD and a nVIDIA card, preferably a 7xxx. I can wait a bit for that to come down in price, but not much longer than a month or so. Beyond that, and the hope that I can find a motherboard with a minimum of two PCI-E slots, and the fact that I can just use the Audigy I have in my machine, I don't have really any idea of what to buy.
So, what should I buy?
Right, so my poor machine has started to finally show it's age. It can no longer run any game that comes out. I got this thing from Gateway three years ago, and with the exception of an ATI card that was a piece of crap (ATI's driver installation files didn't recognize it as an ATI card for over a year after buying it, AND I'd always be the one guy who had the strange crashing problems few others had), it's been a relatively decent machine.
Now I need a new one though. Badly. However, the last time I built a computer, I barely helped, AND I was something like 8 years old (it was a 486). Hardware is not my forte. So I need help.
I already figure I'm going to go with AMD and a nVIDIA card, preferably a 7xxx. I can wait a bit for that to come down in price, but not much longer than a month or so. Beyond that, and the hope that I can find a motherboard with a minimum of two PCI-E slots, and the fact that I can just use the Audigy I have in my machine, I don't have really any idea of what to buy.
So, what should I buy?