Hey everyone 
Now I'm no expert but I'm fairly computer savvy, however when it comes to hardware spec's I'm clueless. A friend of a friend helped me pick my hardware, and I put together my current computer almost 4 years ago. It was a beast at first but after a month my gfx card kept crashing almost every game, 5 mins into playing. Did some research, turned out a lot of people were having issues with the same card. For whatever reason I never bothered to, or couldn't get a replacement. Well now I'm finally ready to do it and I was looking for some insight, based on my current spec's, what my best options would be..
I'm running:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...mail-_-WebletMain-_-WEBLET101SATSFY-_-Satisfy
And the busted graphics card I'm using:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...mail-_-WebletMain-_-WEBLET101SATSFY-_-Satisfy
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not expecting to play next-gen games at the highest settings or anything, just something decent to hold me over until I eventually build a fresh PC. I'm not looking to spend more than $200-$300. I've always gone with nVidia in the past, but I'm open to other suggestions.
Any suggestions are appreciated, thanks for your time!
Now I'm no expert but I'm fairly computer savvy, however when it comes to hardware spec's I'm clueless. A friend of a friend helped me pick my hardware, and I put together my current computer almost 4 years ago. It was a beast at first but after a month my gfx card kept crashing almost every game, 5 mins into playing. Did some research, turned out a lot of people were having issues with the same card. For whatever reason I never bothered to, or couldn't get a replacement. Well now I'm finally ready to do it and I was looking for some insight, based on my current spec's, what my best options would be.. I'm running:
- Windows 7, 64bit
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...mail-_-WebletMain-_-WEBLET101SATSFY-_-Satisfy
- Asus M4A89GTD PRO AMD 890GX CrossFire Motherboard
- AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8GHz Processor Overclocked to 4.0GHz
- 8GB DDR3 1600MHz System Memory (4 x 2048MB)
- 750-Watt Power Supply
- CoolIT ECO A.L.C Liquid Cooling System
- WD Black WD1002FAEX 1TB Desktop Hard Drive - 3.5", SATA, 7200RPM, 64MB Cache
And the busted graphics card I'm using:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...mail-_-WebletMain-_-WEBLET101SATSFY-_-Satisfy
- EVGA 01G-P3-1452-TR GeForce GTS 450 SuperClocked Video Card - 1024MB GDDR5, PCI-Express 2.0, Dual DVI, Mini HDMI, SLI, DirectX 11, Fermi +99MHz Overclock to 882MHz
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not expecting to play next-gen games at the highest settings or anything, just something decent to hold me over until I eventually build a fresh PC. I'm not looking to spend more than $200-$300. I've always gone with nVidia in the past, but I'm open to other suggestions.
Any suggestions are appreciated, thanks for your time!
