Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

[Yoko]

I only want to spend around 100 dollars

I use it for gaming

Save up your money if you can, I'd say a good $300-$350 would be better for upgrading if the purpose is gaming. PSU should be last to upgrade unless the stock PSU is horrendously bad (e.g. 4-500W and up should be good).

[ThePlague]

Well, thing is it's a 250W. And the processor is a AMD sempron LE-1200. The graphics card said it needed at least 400W to run.

[InnerGoat]

Save your money.

[Aerowyn]

I'm going to buy a new video card. It needs to be able to handle my TF2 habits. And if it's possible, I'm fucking sick of ATI cards. The card I currently have is an ATI Radeon x800 Series card. It's a big pile of dog crap.

So any suggestions for cards that would be better, and relatively inexpensive, are greatly appreciated.

[Cortexian]

x800 is AGP isn't it? If so there's not really anything worth upgrading to until you get a motherboard with PCI-E.

[343guiltymc]

The best AGP cards available right now are the 3850 and the 4670.

[Cortexian]

Which aren't worth upgrading to IMO.

[InnerGoat]

just postin this because what the fuck 50 dollars for a 9800gt (8800gt(gts240(wtf))) http://www.newegg.com/Special/ShellS...288-_-07192010


anyways,

[343guiltymc]

Which CPUs would best for gaming? Athlon II X3s or Phenom II X2s? I'm to go for a cheap 100 dollar CPU.

[Cortexian]

Intel CPU's.