I've been running a Core 2 Duo E8400/GTX 260 on a ASUS P5N-D (nForce 750i) for the last three and a half years and I hadn't really been planning on doing an upgrade just yet but my PSU died Tuesday & seems to have taken the 260 with it. I think the mobo/cpu/memory are still OK but I haven't been able to confirm without graphics. Frustrating.
I'm torn because like I said I hadn't planned on a full upgrade yet, but now I'm in the market for a new graphics card at the very least. If I was going to get new hardware, I'd probably re-use drives, case, etc & buy the following:
Part list permalink [http://pcpartpicker.com/p/5jua] / Part price breakdown by merchant [http://pcpartpicker.com/p/5jua/by_merchant]
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor [http://pcpartpicker.com/part/intel-cpu-bx80623i52500k] ($179.99 @ Microcenter)
Motherboard: ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard [http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asrock-motherboard-z68extreme3gen3] ($137.86 @ Newegg)
Memory: Patriot Viper Xtreme 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory [http://pcpartpicker.com/part/patriot-memory-pxd38g1866elk] ($34.99 @ Microcenter)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB Video Card [http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-n560gtxtitwinfrozriioc] ($209.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $562.83
(Prices include shipping and discounts when available.)
(Generated 2012-03-03 17:37 EST-0500)
What would you do? Go with this or something similar, or just replace the GPU? I already have a new 600W 80+ PSU, and primarily play PC games at 1900x1200.
I'm torn because like I said I hadn't planned on a full upgrade yet, but now I'm in the market for a new graphics card at the very least. If I was going to get new hardware, I'd probably re-use drives, case, etc & buy the following:
Part list permalink [http://pcpartpicker.com/p/5jua] / Part price breakdown by merchant [http://pcpartpicker.com/p/5jua/by_merchant]
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor [http://pcpartpicker.com/part/intel-cpu-bx80623i52500k] ($179.99 @ Microcenter)
Motherboard: ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard [http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asrock-motherboard-z68extreme3gen3] ($137.86 @ Newegg)
Memory: Patriot Viper Xtreme 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory [http://pcpartpicker.com/part/patriot-memory-pxd38g1866elk] ($34.99 @ Microcenter)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB Video Card [http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-n560gtxtitwinfrozriioc] ($209.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $562.83
(Prices include shipping and discounts when available.)
(Generated 2012-03-03 17:37 EST-0500)
What would you do? Go with this or something similar, or just replace the GPU? I already have a new 600W 80+ PSU, and primarily play PC games at 1900x1200.
