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Is this a good gaming rig?

Gaming, no, 6570 is lol for gaming. My OLD gpu is 3x as fast. A new mid cheap range nvidia (aint big on amd's) 3x as fast. and new faster gpus are coming out now-march.

Pre built is pretty much *never* good for games.

No you can not just change the card, we would need to know the PSU size, it is likely sized for that system, not for a larger card. So now you are looking at likely a gpu + psu on a locked down system (i7 really only need an i5 but, "K" sku can reach an "easy" 4.5ghz clock.)

If you give a budget, maybe exact games, if you would like to overclock or not / build your own or not we can find you a good pc.

Thanks for the offer to help.

I don't want to build myself.
Budget $1,000
Don't want to overclock
Games: Microsoft flight sim X, other sim type games, Modern Warfare:black ops, MW3, also music, and photos. Not heavy editing like PS, but just want quick responsiveness with large files.

Dont need a monitor, have 24" already
Would like 2TB, I have 1 now, and it is almost full.

Thanks!

You could probably get yourself an i5-2500k with 8 GB of RAM and budget for a decent video card and easily be under $1000, especially since you have your own monitor.
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A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -MLK

Also, building a computer is easier than ever. A first timer could probably do it within an hour. Plus, you know your parts are top notch and you still have warranties on the parts, rather than a shit warranty on shit parts from OEM.
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A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -MLK

Do you mean like buying a bare bones kit from newegg or something? I don't know how comfortable I would be with installing the processor and heat sink and all that good stuff. Video card/RAM etc I am fine with.

It would be exciting to learn and is much easier than it might seem.

what about this combo?

»www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBund···o.722615

You wouldn't be disappointed. I think the motherboard is on the high end but it keeps you within budget.

Plus, since it is a combo, it means you don't have to worry about compatability, since they did that for you.

Honestly, you should put it together yourself.

Also, you have a 1TB HD listed. You know that you can re-use a lot of your old parts, including your old drive? You'll need a fresh install of the OS, but you can slap your current HD inside the new machine and now have your old data plus another TB of storage.

The only thing I would consider is finding some way to fiddle with the numbers to get yourself a solid state drive. I don't see that in there.

As far as support from DSLR, I could help you or a dozen others could help you figure out how to set it up, but I know there are others who are better at sniping better prices. I think you could probably do just as well for maybe $100-200 cheaper.

Krisnatharok is who I use to scope out those deals on newegg.
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A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -MLK

reply to smithfly114
That would be a solid system. But keep in mind that you are getting an $80 operating system and $50 optical drive from Costco that you don't get in that bundle.

reply to smithfly114
With that combo you still need to put everything together yourself, cpu's in etc. Easy ya sure is easy if you are careful and everything works... I do my own but I just want it to be clear... it can be an issue.

I would pick your own parts not deal with a combo, the PSU is oversized you could save some on that, mobo you only need a $100 one (you wont be ocing) you can also get a non k cpu (if you are sure you do not want to OC, you will need a different CPU cooler anyways if you do), you will need an OS a said...

It is hard to beat pre built price... however when you want to "game" you end up needed to swap parts on a prebuilt or... spend more... if you look for a pre built with a GOOD vid card, you will be way over 1grand.

I would not worry about an ssd, why spend $200 (vid card price) for faster load times, when you can always add one later as they come down in price?

If you will look at something that has to be built I can give ya a fast newegg non combo list... of what you need... just aint doing that over current 3g. No patience lol.

reply to smithfly114
You could buy a Desktop from a bare bones seller. . give it the i5 2400, 8 gig ram, . . for about $600.

Then you buy a better power supply and a video card, put those in and you've got a gaming monster. You could buy the top end video card and an SSD and end up about $1200-1300 or you can get a high end card and forget the SSD and be under $1000.

What is a good bare bones seller?

reply to demir
how about this?
»www.tigerdirect.com/applications···atId=333

mobo is okay
cpu okay (overkill)
cd rom okay
ram throw away
SSD I think is kinda slow...
tower is your choice
psu is throw away
vid card is throw away.

throw away = replace...

Not too sure why everyone is pusing a barebones...

the whole idea is dumb, you took a "custom" pc and took away some of the custom part...

sadly I have not had time to check anything out on my own here to see what can be had for 1k.

reply to smithfly114
Power Supply - Antec TruePower 550W
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···17371020

Case - Antec 300
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···11129042

Hard Drive - Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB Drive
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···pinpoint

Those are rock solid starting pieces for your rig. I agree that you can worry about adding an SSD in the future if you want, but this gets you a very nice, reliable SATA3 drive with 1TB. You can't go wrong. That's $320 and you need a motherboard & CPU, RAM, and a video card.

You are going to want a 560Ti at least for your card, so assume you are going to spend $300 for that. That leaves you $380 for the mobo/CPU and RAM.

Cheap RAM works. Feel free to spend lots of money on it if you really want to, but some cheap Kingston works just fine. RAM speed just isn't a bottleneck like it used to be and you can get 8GB (more than enough) for probably $50.

That's $330 left for your Mobo/CPU. Mobo choice is nothing more than how much you want to spend for features. If you are not really going to use them, don't spend the money on it. You can get a really nice mobo for $100 easy.

There's my opinion on some things.

reply to Archivis

Also, I really see no need to overclock with today's parts. The benefit isn't anywhere as close as what it used to be. You could overclock yourself into a new performance bracket back then. Now, it's just bragging rights.
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A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -MLK

Yeah. Pushing my i7-920 from 2.66 to 3.6 (35% OC) certainly made it faster, but the newer chips have a turbo up to something like 3.7 already, so im not sure you could tell the difference between that and a 24/7 OC at something like 4.5 GHz.
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If we lose this freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment, those who had the most to lose, did the least to prevent its happening.

But what games or applications couldn't you run that you could now run?