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New Rig or New Video card?

ShadowFold

ShadowFold

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Processor AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8ghz
Motherboard ASUS M4A87TD EVO AM3 AMD 870
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Memory Kingston ValueRAM 4GB DDR3-1333
Video Card(s) XFX ATi Radeon HD 5850 1gb
Storage Western Digital 640gb
Display(s) Acer 21.5" 5ms Full HD 1920x1080P
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A second GTS would be a good cheap upgrade. I say do that if you don't want to spend 200-260$ for a 4870 or 260.
 
CDdude55

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Processor AMD Athlon II X4 620
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
Cooling Corsair H70
Memory 8GB Corsair Vengence @1600mhz
Video Card(s) XFX HD 6970 2GB
Storage OCZ Agility 3 60GB SSD/WD Velociraptor 300GB
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Going to get a new mobo to, the 680i has been giving me problems lot of the time( Won't POST the first time i boot up so i have to restart, Windows will sometimes not load or not till a really long time and sometimes it only takes a couple seconds)

Going for probably a P45 board, and going to use same CPU(and maybe some reaper memory)
 
ShadowFold

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System Name The ShadowFold Draconis (Ordering soon)
Processor AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8ghz
Motherboard ASUS M4A87TD EVO AM3 AMD 870
Cooling Stock
Memory Kingston ValueRAM 4GB DDR3-1333
Video Card(s) XFX ATi Radeon HD 5850 1gb
Storage Western Digital 640gb
Display(s) Acer 21.5" 5ms Full HD 1920x1080P
Case Antec Nine-Hundred
Audio Device(s) Onboard + Creative "Fatal1ty" Headset
Power Supply Antec Earthwatts 650w
Software Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
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Go with something else. I heard the OCZ Reapers don't clock very high at all and are pretty quick to die. What you have now, ram wise, is fine. If you go with a P45 get a 4870, if you go 750i go GTX 260.
 
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