Rebuilding my old PC need advice

Krieger

Krieger

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I am planing on gutting my PC an replacing it with the best hardware I can find on my budget. My limit is $700 for parts and the O.S. The reason I have started this build is because of two reasons; my computer has begun to suffer ( slow security scanning, freezes occasionally, and the board crashed on me today) and its simply getting old. Now I was able to fix the motherboard failure with simple rewiring an a new capacitor but now I think its about time to get new parts. It is after all almost five years old. If I go with an i5 processor in the 3 to 4 GHz range what motherboard should I go with and how many watts of power should I get for my next power supply? And I'm going with windows 8 for the O.S. so what would be a good hard drive that will last?
 
Can you please give us a list of teh parts you have now so that we have a baseline of your upgrade process. You likely don't need a HDD, Case, DVD drive or the like, but without a list we will not know for sure.

As for motherboard, you are looking a a Z77X-UD3H or UD5H for it. Maybe something better, but certainly nothing lower end.
 
I use an old Elitegroup board with an AMD processor ruing at 2.39Ghz with 1.00 GB of RAM. and a 500watt Power supply
 
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So do you need a new case and hard drive?

For $700 you could build an entirely new PC...
 
how much should i spend on an i5 processor so i don't feel ripped off? I'm going with the i5 because its faster than what I'm currently using and i don't think i need an i7 because all i really do for gaming is Microsoft flight sim and an i5 with better RAM should be more than enough.
 
Okay, you will need to replace that. really, that or your motherboard could be the source of your current issues.

I am assuming since you keep ignoring the question that you do not have a HDD to reuse, which will reduce budget a bit.


What do you want to do with the computer? Are you gaming? Do you photo edit, or video edit? Do you use distributed computing? These will answer what parts you need in a new build.
 
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Okay, you will need to replace that. really, that or your motherboard could be the source of your current issues.

I am assuming since you keep ignoring the question that you do not have a HDD to reuse, which will reduce budget a bit.


What do you want to do with the computer? Are you gaming? Do you photo edit, or video edit? Do you use distributed computing? These will answer what parts you need in a new build.
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I mostly do video streaming like you tube netflix and amazon instant video. The most I do as far as gaming is Microsoft flight simulator x and a few MMORPGs. I rarely do any editing on videos(i know a guy for that) or photos so that level of performance probably isn't needed.
 
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with a i5 3570k, ud3h, 8 gig ram, and 120gb ssd, and a GTX650, 650TX psu i came to an 720 dollar parts budget, adding windows 8 will be another 100 bucks
 
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