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Is it absolutely necessary?... Because a fresh copy of windows is a distance away, financially. I'm installing ubuntu on a flash drive currently to see if there would be any way I could boot from that and install drivers for my board onto the windows files that are already on the hdd

So I got a new motherboard (ASUS P6x58e-pro) and pretty much swapped out all the components and got a new PSU to support it and a video card update in the near future, cool stuff. I did NOT reformat my hard drive or anything, primarily because I did not know I needed to or how to. I...

So I just put together this build and I've had some problems. I started off with an HP motherboard and I put it into a better case. It had an i7-920 on it with a stock heatsink. Also, it had a 3GB/s HDD (650GB), a radeon 220 (low-profile), and 6GB of 1066 RAM (DDR3, 3x2GB. i7-920 only supports...

Thanks for all the great replies guys. I have decided on the Radeon HD 6850 and the Corsair builder series v2 600W. It increased my overall price by a bit... but I think it's manageable for the quality and future-proofing of it. I honestly don't see myself needing more power than an i7, so...

Okay so I'm gonna be upgrading my desktop soon, and I'm looking for a... I guess you could say light end gaming and general use computer. I want it to be able to handle what I throw at it (which will not be BF3 on max, more like lower end games (second life, Blacklight: Retribution, vindictus...