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Kleataurus
Australia56 Posts
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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Forikorder
Canada8840 Posts
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
The motherboard is just a standard size ATX affair. If your case supports ATX motherboards (if there are 7 or more expansion slot covers on the back, then the answer is "yes"), then it will fit that motherboard. Most tower cases you buy at retail fit this description. Your current case is probably just designed to fit microATX at the maximum, and thus only has 4 expansion slots. Most OEM (mini-) tower systems are this size, but most midtowers support the normal ATX. If it fits ATX, it will fit microATX and miniITX as well. What do you do with your computer? If it's not benchmarking as a hobby or professional 3D rendering or some other very heavy usage, I'd highly recommend selling the motherboard, considering the market value is like $350 or more. I'm guessing you don't fit that category, since you're asking about cheap cases. The cheapest CPU that motherboard currently supports is around $600 dollars (next year a lower-end ~$300 model will be available), but that's negligibly better for gaming than an i5-2500k. An i5-2500k costs around $220 and works with motherboards in the $50+ range, and can be overclocked on motherboards in the $100+ range. For most people it just doesn't make sense to use the X79 platform. | ||
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Forikorder
Canada8840 Posts
sounds like ill have to upgrade my CPU before i can use it though would the motherboard work with a lower CPU or do i need at least an i5 to use it? | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
You'd get something just as good (if not slightly better) for what you do, that uses less power. With the money saved, you could get an SSD, and upgrade mouse / keyboard / monitor / headphones / speakers / whatever. | ||
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Medrea
10003 Posts
Myrmidon suggests SSD and stuff to improve upon, but also realize you could go up to 2 or 3 GPU's with the amount of money you could end up dropping on the 2011 line. Now, if you were going to do that anyway. Well then yeah maybe 2011 is for you but for any computer below $3000 I would stay very far away. | ||
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Forikorder
Canada8840 Posts
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Josh_rakoons
United Kingdom1158 Posts
On December 24 2011 11:27 Forikorder wrote: what exactly is SSD? Solid state drive. | ||
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Forikorder
Canada8840 Posts
that would be the hard drive right? are there multiple types or is SSD the only type? | ||
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Subztance
United States139 Posts
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srk
Canada8 Posts
On December 24 2011 11:36 Forikorder wrote: that would be the hard drive right? are there multiple types or is SSD the only type? SSD is a type of hard drive, mechanical being the other SSDs are relatively expensive compared to mechanical ($/GB) but are so much faster than the mechanical hard drive For example, booting your pc will be extremely fast. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
On December 24 2011 11:36 Forikorder wrote: that would be the hard drive right? are there multiple types or is SSD the only type? SSD is a solid state drive and HDD is a hard disk drive, both are storage drives. | ||
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pRo9aMeR
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thethels
Canada2 Posts
Intel Core i5 760 - 2.8GHz 4GB RAM 450 GB Hard Disk NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT RealTek GigaBit Ethernet Card | ||
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Boblhead
United States2577 Posts
On December 24 2011 17:05 thethels wrote: I have an opportunity to buy a computer, and need to offer a price; however, I am slightly computer inept. What would be a reasonable price for a computer with these specs?: Intel Core i5 760 - 2.8GHz 4GB RAM 450 GB Hard Disk NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT RealTek GigaBit Ethernet Card $250-300 only thing good about this is the processor, its known for nice overclocks. But it should be fine for gaming etc. On December 24 2011 15:18 pRo9aMeR wrote: Is it possible to connect 2 computers (laptop + desktop) together so that I can transfer files from the laptop to the desktop quickly? Is there a such thing as a "male/male usb connector"? If you have a router, you can have them recognize eachother on the network, so no need for a usb connection. Plus it would be faster. You just have to adjust the privacy settings on each computer to allow other people on your network to view files etc, etc. but if you insist http://www.wikihow.com/Connect-Two-Computers-Using-USB | ||
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WeazL
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Jizla
Scotland235 Posts
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Ariion
Poland50 Posts
I'm using XSplit + Dxtory at the moment. I've searched and found guides how to stream sound from stereomix + mic using FMLE, but maybe I was not searching enough so sorry if it was answered somewhere here. | ||
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Ovi
164 Posts
Will a SSD harddrive give me any ingame benefits in any game compared to a non SSD? If so, what type of game? | ||
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