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ITS TIME! Time to build a computer for myself.

I've recently sold my laptop so we need to do this quickly as using my girlfriends laptop needs to never happen again.

Heres the problem, I dont know exactly what parts go with what and I'm not sure what type of case I have. All I know is I have 8GB of Ram and a fine nvadia graphics card. Im looking to replace just about everything else.

My goals: Living streaming, uploading quality content, running games in nice graphics and at high speeds. And of course long walks on the beach.

There for replacing everything but the ram and graphics card my budget is 500$ goodluck! If you go over no bid deal looking to replace motherboard and processor fisrt.
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fine nvadia graphics card
replacing everything but the ram and graphics card

What is your current hardware? Unless you have an Uber GPU been bottlenecked to hell by your current CPU then your gaming performance won't change by replacing everything but the GPU.
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Treyarched wrote fine nvadia graphics card
replacing everything but the ram and graphics card

What is your current hardware? Unless you have an Uber GPU been bottlenecked to hell by your current CPU then your gaming performance won't change by replacing everything but the GPU.


I honestly have no idea what u are saying.
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ThatGamingCouple wrote
Treyarched wrote fine nvadia graphics card
replacing everything but the ram and graphics card

What is your current hardware? Unless you have an Uber GPU been bottlenecked to hell by your current CPU then your gaming performance won't change by replacing everything but the GPU.


I honestly have no idea what u are saying.


Why upgrade everything BUT the GPU? If you want to run games in higher detail settings and achieve better framerates upgrading the CPU really won't help much. If you have a somewhat modern CPU swapping it out might be useless unless you want slightly faster video rendering times.
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Treyarched wrote
ThatGamingCouple wrote
Treyarched wrote fine nvadia graphics card
replacing everything but the ram and graphics card

What is your current hardware? Unless you have an Uber GPU been bottlenecked to hell by your current CPU then your gaming performance won't change by replacing everything but the GPU.


I honestly have no idea what u are saying.


Why upgrade everything BUT the GPU? If you want to run games in higher detail settings and achieve better framerates upgrading the CPU really won't help much. If you have a somewhat modern CPU swapping it out might be useless unless you want slightly faster video rendering times.

I plan on replacing them just money is tight at the moment. So for now I just the computer to be able to run as the motherboard has died the computer is old that I'm upgrading I've always used laptops so I'm very new to this. I will upgrade the graphics card after the rest of the computer just for now I dont mind using this graphics card.
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Treyarched wrote
ThatGamingCouple wrote
Treyarched wrote fine nvadia graphics card
replacing everything but the ram and graphics card

What is your current hardware? Unless you have an Uber GPU been bottlenecked to hell by your current CPU then your gaming performance won't change by replacing everything but the GPU.


I honestly have no idea what u are saying.


Why upgrade everything BUT the GPU? If you want to run games in higher detail settings and achieve better framerates upgrading the CPU really won't help much. If you have a somewhat modern CPU swapping it out might be useless unless you want slightly faster video rendering times.


The OP might already have a high grade card. However, before we do make any builds we'll need to know which card you do have. 'Fine nvidia' doesn't help. We could end up making something way stronger than your card could compete with or something that'll barely use any of the power it allows. It'll have the name on it, so just look. Or you can download a 'What's my GPU' program from their actual site.
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Easiest thing to do is download [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] and it'll display everything you have in your computer and you can just provide a screenshot of what it says so we know what to give you for upgrades. You'll also need to find out your power supply yourself by either knowing what it is from when you purchased it, or just take off the side panel and check the label.
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United_Kingdom wrote Easiest thing to do is download [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] and it'll display everything you have in your computer and you can just provide a screenshot of what it says so we know what to give you for upgrades. You'll also need to find out your power supply yourself by either knowing what it is from when you purchased it, or just take off the side panel and check the label.
the computer currently isnt working I was told it was because of the motherboard.
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Just under $500 after rebates;
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500W unit is more than enough for any single card rig. In fact, even dual GPU cards such as the 760 Mars and GTX 690 will work with a 500W PSU, and possibly a Titan Z. I doubt you have anything as high end as that though.
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rot wrote Just under $500 after rebates;
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500W unit is more than enough for any single card rig. In fact, even dual GPU cards such as the 760 Mars and GTX 690 will work with a 500W PSU, and possibly a Titan Z. I doubt you have anything as high end as that though.
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Thanks for the build but I think the cpu is kind of weak for its price?
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