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[AAA]

Much Appreciation. Also, welcome to the forums. I haven't seen you around before.

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[AAA]

yadadada

I'm sorry for the double post, but I noticed your keyboard. I've been looking at that keyboard for over a year now and I must ask: are you able to hold down the arrows key < & ^ simultaneously while tapping the 0 on the numpad in a FPS game?? Because that's what has been holding me back from buying it. It's a dream keyboard.

[Cortexian]

My OCZ GameXStream 600W hasn't had any problems in the past 1.5 years that I've had it. Hopefully nothing goes wrong with it. Maybe it was a simple manufacturing defect, just like your motherboard.

Nah I probably just got a lemon unit because from the looks of the damage when it happened, it looks like something heated up so much it caused one of the capacitors to literally come loose and fall out...

Here's the original post I made about it.

Anyways, I have another GameXStream PSU in my dads computer and it's been running for around 6 years with no problem.

[StankBacon]

im thinking about building a budget rig and i wanna know what you guys think..


Mobo - GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

Video Card - XFX HD-485X-ZDFC Radeon HD 4850 1GB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card - Retail

Ram - G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ - Retail

Proc - AMD Athlon II X4 630 Propus 2.8GHz Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core Processor Model ADX630WFGIBOX - Retail

Total - $413.96

i already have PSU, HDDs, Case and all other peripherals... so those 4 are the only components i need.

i originally wanted a phenom 2 x4, but its like $70 more, so i figured the athlon 2 x4 should suffice, especially if i OC it a bit.... would the lack of L3 cache really make that big of a difference?

the most demanding game i play right now is l4d2 and i don't do any video editing or shit like that.

anyway, id like to stay around 400, and get the best bang for my buck, anything i should swap or is this a decent rig?

[Rook]

One suggestion, Phenom>Athlon. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103680

I know it's dual core but go for I'd get it over the Athlon. (because I did) I also got that motherboard, nice board for the price.

Overall most everything you're thinking of is what I have and my shit runs reasonably, showed you FPS/tech settings over steam. I have similar RAM, G.SKILL 1333 speed. MY computer also uses a XFX 4850, however mine has 512MB of ram on it.

[Cojafoji]

yeah, bacon, get the phenom 2. on that mobo, you can unlock the other two cores.

so instead of getting the quad core at 2.8ghz for 112, you get a quad core at 3.1ghz for 102 with a 6mb l3 cache.

GA-MA770T-UD3P - F2c/F3 Bios - SUCCESS!!/SUCCESS!!

click those links for details on unlocking etc.

[Rook]

One thing to think about not every 550 CPU can unlock a 3rd or 4th core. Some of the chips are supposedly defective. Still, phenom supremacy.

[StankBacon]

and unlocking disables the temp sensors or some shit.

[Bhamid]

Phenom is black edition as well, so its easier to overclock.

[StankBacon]

ZALMAN CNPS9900ALED 120mm 2 Ball Low-noise Blue LED CPU Cooler - Retail

or

Vigor Monsoon III LT Dual 120mm Fan CPU Cooler Socket 1366 Ready - Retail

or something else?