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  1. Skellington9270

    Absolute low budget build in need of help. (resolved)

    You are the man Agent Smith. Glad to see some other C&C lovers around. I'm a RA2YR and TSFS man myself. I've never bought from ebay before but I'll give it a shot. Thank you for your help and expertise. (And also not inflating my budget to the limit)
  2. Skellington9270

    Absolute low budget build in need of help. (resolved)

    Hopefully this isn't considered "off topic" but I did want to clear something up and you seem to know what you're talking about. Even with my ancient mobo, if I were to buy a PCIE 2.0 or 3.0 card and pop it in there, what you're saying is that the card would not work at maximum efficiency or...
  3. Skellington9270

    Absolute low budget build in need of help. (resolved)

    I'm trying to save money now and buy the things I want later. I'm just attempting to find a cheapish fix that will be reliable and work with what I have. I know it's stupid to say but this rig does have sentimental value. It was the first rig I ever built and I'd like to keep it together for a...
  4. Skellington9270

    Absolute low budget build in need of help. (resolved)

    I don't plan on building this rig up. There's no point in it due to it's age. I would need a larger power supply if I decided to go with that card but it's not compatible to my motherboard. From what I've read it might be backwards compatible but you take massive hits when you jump more than...
  5. Skellington9270

    Absolute low budget build in need of help. (resolved)

    Central US That's exactly what I said and what I'm looking for. I haven't bought new parts in years and I'm looking for primarily a graphics card with an hdmi out that will fit a PCIE x16 slot and compatible with or will run on 1.0 stats due to the old motherboard.
  6. Skellington9270

    Absolute low budget build in need of help. (resolved)

    I can see where you're coming from. Just buying a slightly newer, complete PC and going from there. A better platform to build off of. And if I could, I would definitely buy a brand name PSU if I spent actual money on a graphics card. The only issue is that my budget is genuine and the PC that...
  7. Skellington9270

    Absolute low budget build in need of help. (resolved)

    500GB will do fine. I have a 2TB external. A regular SATA drive should do fine. I don't really have a need for an SSD especially after seeing the state of the rest of my rig
  8. Skellington9270

    Absolute low budget build in need of help. (resolved)

    I also have an Intel Pentium 4 2.6GHZ/512/800 and a Pentium 4 2.4GHZ/512/533/1.5V and a laughable AMD Athlon 30,000k series made of plastic. An MSI MS - 7536 motherboard A Dell 0KWVT8 motherboard And a hand full of Kingston and ProMos 512MB DDR1 RAM With their respective crappy/proprietary...
  9. Skellington9270

    Absolute low budget build in need of help. (resolved)

    Absolutely, I use it primarily for gaming almost exclusively the Command and Conquer series with random other titles thrown in mostly older single player FPS and RTS games. I would say and 80%-20% split. With the 20% going to youtube but I now have an old PS3 to do that for me. I'll attempt to...
  10. Skellington9270

    Absolute low budget build in need of help. (resolved)

    Awesome, thanks for the tip and the help. I'll need a working hard drive first but I'm definitely saving the URL for later.
  11. Skellington9270

    Absolute low budget build in need of help. (resolved)

    Greeting and salutations, Some back story before we get into it. I have very, very little disposable income... basically nothing. I'm 24 but instead of student loans I have medical bills. I've been building computers since I took interest is high school and took a few vocational classes in A+...
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