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Ghonzo said:
Well whats your current setup?
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this: HP Pavillion a6120n desktop
Introduction date
26-Apr-2007
Country/region sold in:
  • US
  • Canada
Hardware
Base processor
Core 2 Duo E4400 (C) DC 2.0 GHz
  • 800 MHz front side bus
  • Socket 775
Chipset
Intel 945G
Motherboard
  • Manufacturer: Asus
  • Motherboard Name: P5LP-LE
  • HP/Compaq motherboard name: Leonite2-GL8E
  • Windows Vista 32bit
Harddrive: 320GB 7200rpm

Upgraded hardware:
Thermaltake 430W PSU
4 GB DDR2 SDRAM
PNY GEFORCE GT630 2GB DDR3 graphics card

Monitor (keeping)
ASUS 23" 1080 HDMI 2ms
Mouse:
Logitech MX518
Keyboard:
Logitech G510 (backlit and 18 macro keys)

as you can see by my "setup" it's in dire need of upgrading
 
Shaun fbody said:
this: HP Pavillion a6120n desktop
Introduction date
26-Apr-2007
Country/region sold in:
  • US
  • Canada
Hardware
Base processor
Core 2 Duo E4400 (C) DC 2.0 GHz
  • 800 MHz front side bus
  • Socket 775
Chipset
Intel 945G
Motherboard
  • Manufacturer: Asus
  • Motherboard Name: P5LP-LE
  • HP/Compaq motherboard name: Leonite2-GL8E
  • Windows Vista 32bit
Harddrive: 320GB 7200rpm

Upgraded hardware:
Thermaltake 430W PSU
4 GB DDR2 SDRAM
PNY GEFORCE GT630 2GB DDR3 graphics card

Monitor (keeping)
ASUS 23" 1080 HDMI 2ms
Mouse:
Logitech MX518
Keyboard:
Logitech G510 (backlit and 18 macro keys)

as you can see by my "setup" it's in dire need of upgrading
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Dear lord... Even a low end set up will be an improvement
 
v.Kamikaze said:
it doesnt take much to play css... lol. what other games do you play?
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Im guilty of this, too. I drop 1200 on a nice ass desktop or laptop and play css in medium settings... Haha I think I like the possibility to play newer games though. My first laptop ran css fine, but couldnt handle l4d2 at all. I dont like being so limited!
 
I'd like the capability to run more games...right now just CSS and CSGO and GO is even a challenge. I think my OS being a 32bit system (and being vista) is bottlenecking my ram and graphics card. My fps in CSS range from 30 to 70. Lol. I'd like to play BF4 on PC
 
Shaun fbody said:
I'd like the capability to run more games...right now just CSS and CSGO and GO is even a challenge. I think my OS being a 32bit system (and being vista) is bottlenecking my ram and graphics card. My fps in CSS range from 30 to 70. Lol. I'd like to play BF4 on PC
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30-70 for CSS on your machine is pretty good. My previous laptop could only play CSS at 13-20FPS :p

I would say building a new rig would be the best for you for that price range.

For extra $94 you can build this. If you want to stay under budget you can lower the SSD from 256GB to 128GB.

Intel Core i5-3570K, EVGA GeForce GTX 660, Corsair 600T White Graphite - System Build - PCPartPicker
 
Ghonzo said:
30-70 for CSS on your machine is pretty good. My previous laptop could only play CSS at 13-20FPS :p

I would say building a new rig would be the best for you for that price range.

For extra $94 you can build this. If you want to stay under budget you can lower the SSD from 256GB to 128GB.

Intel Core i5-3570K, EVGA GeForce GTX 660, Corsair 600T White Graphite - System Build - PCPartPicker
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Thanks Gonzo... I'll look into this as well. My wife bought a new PC in 2011 but it's a "slim" case pc and not much room for upgrades lol. It's got a better os (win7 64 bit) and better processor...but PSU options are slim pickens (no pun intended lol)
 
Shaun fbody said:
So I am finally done with upgrading my current PC --- it's as far upgraded as it will go at this point without buying a new mobo, processor, hard drives, etc etc... So this is what I am looking at, how much would this cost to build:
Processor & Memory:
  • Intel® Core™ i7-4770K quad-core processor (3.5GHz)
  • 8MB Shared Cache
  • 32GB DDR3-1600MHz (4 DIMMs)
    Drives:
    • 3TB 7200 rpm SATA hard drive
    • Blu-ray & SuperMulti DVD Burner
      Operating System:
      • Microsoft® Windows 8.1 Professional (64-bit)
        Graphics & Video:
        • 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 Graphics
          Communications:
          • Wireless-N LAN card + Bluetooth
            Audio:
            • Beats Audio
              Keyboard:
              • HP USB keyboard and optical mouse
                Expandability (Total Slots):
                • Total Memory Slots: 4 DIMM
                • 3x PCIe (x1) mini socket
                  Ports:
                  • 2x USB 3.0
                  • 2x USB 2.0
                  • 15-in-1 memory card reader
                  • Combination headphone / microphone jack
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that many
 
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