$1300 budget computer

3 years ago I bought a Digital Storm computer and have loved it, never a problem. I've finally started to see some choppiness in new games so decided to try another DS computer.

My budget was $1200 to $1300 and I do not overclock anything. Hoping for longer life and easier cooling with no overclocks. I finally came up with this config (  564121 )with some help from Cassandra and wanted some opinions. I prefer Intel and nvidia as with that setup I have yet to see a game or program give me problems.

Thanks for any advice given.

Trevail

Well honestly I think you are seeing chopiness due to the old video card, and not due to adverse effects of over clocking. For that budget I would save another $200 and buy the ODE.

I think I have maybe confused a couple people some how. I never said overclocking made things choppy just that I prefer to not overclock. Maybe its just my age but I like everything running at stock levels for longevity. I know the choppiness comes from just the age of all the components and still trying to run COD black ops lol.

I would be still using the older computer for all my xp games and the kids to use. Would upgrading the video card be worth it with the dual core proc or would it be the hold back?

I will take a look at the configs you recommended. Sorry for any confusion.

Thanks for clearing it up, but I like to give you some info.

I'm not sure what kind of ocing you been doing but an oc of 4.4GHz with a vcore of 1.38 or lower, your cpu will live over 8 years, so I'm not sure what ocing has to do with longivity, unless you been dealing with high ocs that are not meant for 24/7 use or somebody has been setting bad oc for you, otherwise, 3.9GHz to 4.4GB on the p67 with vcore lower then 1.4 will have no real effect on your cpu's life.

to not oc these cpus, is like buying a Lamborghini but driving it to the front gate and back.

Do a good low vcore oc (DS will do it for you) and get much much much more performance and don't have to worry about cpu's life.

I didn't mention ode to you cause its not in your budget.


gpu upgrade should help a lot, and worst case senario, you take the gpu and put it in a new pc if the gpu upgrade does not do it for you.

win7 pro has xp mode, which is really you running a virtual pc on your desktop and that vpc will be running xp, not sure how the graphics will work in the vpc tho as far as game performance goes.

the build I corrected for you is $1403, every part there is there for a good reason, for example the psu is corsair for quality and reliability as it has a 5 year warranty, the other psu we don't know the real brand and has only a 2 year warranty.