Let's start with the basics first, I could probably use parts from my old computer, but let's go with a brand new everything for right now and see where that takes us price wise. I'd probably say my budget is between 6-800 dollars at the max, but I do have a decent PSU(750 watt corsair), 6gb of mismatched DDR2 ram, an antec 1200 case and a 9800GTX+ video card... so if need be I could use those old parts, and I do have a quad core processor, but honestly, I am not even sure if my processor is what is messed up on my old rig or not. Still haven't been able to get the computer to boot up, it turns on but just chills with nothing on the screen or anything like that. So anyways, fire away, let me know what you can come up with and/or best course of action is at this point in time.. Thanks everyone! =)
OS not so sure about, I had a student copy of win 7 home premium 64 bit, but it was an iso download and I can't redownload it. Not sure if the HDDs still work or not, but I have a 120 GB HD with the OS installed on it and a 1TB backup drive that I installed all my games on. So if I am not mistaken, I would think the main drive with the OS on it would need to be reformatted since it is going into a new Mobo? Monitor keyboard and mouse I have, so I don't really need those again.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/9EF7 Total: 677.95 with a $20 Rebate on the GPU I would for sure reuse your case and PSU because there is really no point in getting new ones in my honest opinion. Also I would use the 1TB drive as the storage for you computer and use the SSD I put in to boot from. I was unsure as to whether you had an Optical Drive that you can reuse for this computer so I left it out, but there are ones for only like $20. Also I don't know what your situation for you OS is... I know you said you couldn't download the ISO again, but did you have the CD Key still?
Yeah the O/S drive would need to be reformatted. I would get: Mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131736 180.00 CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103960 200.00 AMD FX-8150 Zambezi 3.6GHz Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor Memory: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145347 98.00 16gb, 1600 ddr3 Video card possibilities: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130593 280.00 EVGA 012-P3-1570-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127663 260.00 MSI R7850 Twin Frozr 2GD5/OC Radeon HD 7850 2GB GDDR5 These parts come out to about 760.
That hard drive is way too old and is going to be VERY slow. Definitely need to ditch it. I didnt do a full build, but instead re-used your tower, PSU, and DVD drive to complete the build with these parts: Quad core CPU, think of it more like a dual core with hyper-threading. I chose this instead of an Intel processor because the equivalent Sandy Bridge would run much slower speeds and has no overclocking potential because it would be locked down. And I chose a quad because we need to keep the price down. It will be plenty fine for gaming on anyway: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819106009 Motherboard is a pretty decent little board. Lots of features and a good layout. its drawbaack is that this is not designed for overclocking and you shouldnt push the processor I chose above past 4.5GHz on it: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157280 CPU cooler, I put this is because you have so much trouble with your CPU and heatsink now. Best to get a decent one at the beginning and never worry about this situation again: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835209049 Top brand RAM, of pretty good speed and density: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226223 Pretty good gaming graphics card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130662 And a new hard drive that is much faster than your current one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148840 Comes out to a little under $700
Why not get an Ivy Bridge for about the same price? I posted a build above and I was just curious... isn't Intel generally better for gaming especially the Ivy Bridge?
Dont forget to add at least a decent heatsink to your build Twinblades, Cox already has heat issues with his current computer and Ivy Bridge will develop worse and worse heat issues as time goes on as well since Intel used inferior heat spreader that will degrade severely after just a couple years. That Ivy Bridge will be equal at stock speed to the stock speed of the Bulldozer processor in 4 threaded programs. Single threaded programs will be faster every time on Ivy Bridge. So really you will require a pretty decent CPU cooler for that Ivy build as well just to come out ahead in all situations, but also to keep stability and life expectancy throughout the years. Either way would be fine, but the Intel Ivy Bridge processor would be a lot better if Cox can afford to go that route