Experts, I am building a desktop with the intention of gaming casually COD4 Modern Warfare to take the load off of my failing Inspiron 1420 Laptop which was shipped with a faulty integrated Nvidia GPU. I intend on using: Intel ATX mainboard with LGA775 socket. Amazon.com: Intel Core2 Quad/LGA 775/Intel G43/FSB 1333/2DDR2-800/Intel GAM X4500/GbE/5.1-CH/VGA/DVI-D/1394 ATX Motherboard: Electronics Intel Pentium DualCore E5200 Processor 2.5Ghz 2M L2 Cache 800 MHZ FSB Amazon.com: Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 Processor, 2.5 GHz, 2M L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB, LGA775: Electronics EVGA Nvidia 9400GT 1GB Amazon.com: EVGA 01G-P3-N945-LR GeForce 9400 GT 1GB DDR2 PCI-E 2.0 Graphics Card: Electronics The rest is unimmportant to me at this point. I am deliberately on a low budget as I am not too serious about the power of this PC but I don't want It to crash fraud and burn on me after 1 month of usage. Tese components seem powerful enough and are affordable to me given the current prices of similar components. Please give me any advice you can on buying other parts, compatibility, known issues, ANYTHING. Thanks
upgrade the GPU to a GTX 260 fairly cheap now about £110. The motherboard is a no go. absolute crap. you need to invest in a decent board, one with dual channel memory config. GIGABYTE - Product - Motherboard - Specification - GA-EP45-UD3L (rev. 1.0) something like that. Dual channel 4gb memory kit, prefferably Corsair, G-Skill, OCZ. 64 bit operating system.
