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BTGBullseye

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  1. These parts will still give you pretty good performance in most games:

     

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103652&Tpk=phenom%20ii%20720

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186188&cm_re=am3_motherboard-_-13-186-188-_-Product

     

    Despite being a slightly older processor, I've found it's almost exactly on par in performance with AMD's latest offering around the $120 mark (for gaming). So that's about $150 you could save with a relatively minor speed hit. If you take some of that money and get a faster GPU, I guarantee you'll have faster gaming than BTGbullseye's build.

    Hate to argue with you here, but...

     

    First off, he'd have to get an after-market CPU cooler with that (~$20 for something barely decent), and thermal grease. (another ~$5)

     

    Second, there is little or no upgradeability with those. No futureproofing. That's the key when doing a wholly new computer, making it's longevity be as long as possible for minimum price now and in the future.

     

     

    [i am a hardware Guru. I can make incompatible old hardware sit up, assemble itself, and run the latest games at medium settings with only a threatening glance.]

  2. (i.e. any vestigial organ)

    Going to take on this one little bit, then leave again.

     

     

    Vestigial organs have purposes, just like all other organs. Many are not as purposeful now as they would be without modern medical practices.

     

    A quick example: The Appendix helps prevent some of the beneficial digestive bacteria from being flushed from your body when you have diarrhea. (yes, 'the runs' literally does kill people in 3rd world countries)

  3. Daddy's flown across the ocean

    Leaving just a memory

    Snapshot in the family album

    Daddy what else did you leave for me?

    Daddy, what'd'ja leave behind for me?!?

    All in all it was just a brick in the wall.

    All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.

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