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martinhersey

martinhersey

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I am building my umpteenth computer. I ordered 4 parts from various places: to begin with---the motherboard, the memory, the PSU and the CPU. I can get the MB up and running without installing Windows. This is what seems to be up to date material, but it's really a year or two old. The box the CPU came in was marked up and had dust on it. It came from an obscure company I had never heard of out west called OutletPC. I got off on the wrong foot by installing the PSU upside down. Two of the things I ordered from Amazon.com. I'm getting ready to order four more parts and that will be it. I will need help from you guys finding a Video card. I am going to be using WIN 7 Premium 64 bit.
 
what type of cpu did you buy? - is it intel or an amd
what psu did you buy? - the wattage can limitate the gpu u can buy

what are you going to be using the gpu for? you may just want the intergrated graphics of the cpu if it has integrated?
 
Some more information, such as exactly which pieces of hardware you bought and exactly what you want to do with the PC would be nice...
 
New build--More info

I bought 4 parts as I say: CPU---AMD Athlon II X3 455; MB---MASUS M5A88-M; Memory---Crucial 8GB Kit (4GBx2); PSU---PSURosewill 600W ATX. Maybe, I should get a smaller wattage PSU. I have some old 400W and one 425W lying around in a box. This is all I need at the moment. I plan to start up the MB to see if it works. I bought an Aerocool Qs-200 Compact Case. As an incentive, they included 3 free fans that didn't fit in the case. They're too small. I had to buy 3 bigger fans.
That's all I have in my possession at the moment. I plan to buy 4 more parts: the GPU, the DVD burner, the HD, and the O/S. I plan to use it for email, to keep me in touch with people(I'm very isolated here) and records, such as recording dreams, which I plan to put in a booklet, and maybe for music, which I don't listen to much any more. Actually, I'm just building it for the fun of building it. I probably will set it aside when I'm finished building it. I'd like some help with buying a GPU.
 
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For what you want to do, if your board and CPU support it, you don't really need a graphics card at all. Just use the onboard video.

If you really want a GPU, go low end.
 
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