Alright so, my parents told me that part of my main gift for Christmas will be upgrades to my PC (whatever I need). You see, I'm terrible with this kind of stuff (I do a lazy teen style search and take the first item I see), so I'm asking for help. Currently I'm looking in the price range of $350 (But, if need be, I'll go up to $450), but honestly, I need upgrades to almost everything. My current target is to be able to play modern day games on AT LEAST the recommended system specs (like FarCry2), which currently calls for:

So, for anyone that's interested, if the build is really good, I may throw in a little mineral reward

Without knowing what motherboard you have it is insanely difficult to give you upgrade advice. Find out, report back, and I'll see what I can do for you.

Since you use xfire, just go to your profile page and do Upload Rig, then paste that info here.

I discussed this on MSN with Deathman, and since his mobo is DDR with AGP, on a socket newegg doesn't even sell CPUs for anymore, I had to inform him that he'd be better off buying a new box.

Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811164040
Mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130177
CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116072
HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145162
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231098
GFX: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121229R
Disk: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106261
PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817162017


Grand total: $442.10

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Nov 11 2008, 8:41 pm by Excalibur.

My motherboard was apparently so outdated XFire couldn't see it.

And Ex, I can't thank you enough.

Usually they spec the wattage on the GFX page, but I sort of doubt 300 is going to cut it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145129
this hard drive is twice the capacity and cache but its 9 dollars more (but it has free shipping )
That power supply will never handle the higher end graphics cards
( you should probably get 80 plus power supplies as they do save you money in the long run if you don't plan to upgrade)