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Don't keep your computer outside, especially when its raining... Check out the MSI and EVGA cards, they are pretty much the best manufacturers using nvidia chips. MSI offers some cards with an aftermarket cooler called the Twin Frozr II or III and I don't think I have heard anything bad about...

Ever heard of a surge protector, they cost like $10 and protect sensitive electronics. As long as he has a reputable brand power supply, he will be perfectly fine with an i7 and gtx 580. The i7 draws about 150W while the GTX 580 draws about 350W. Thats only 500W leaving an extra 50W for drives...

I would suggest looking up the GTX 560 TI 448 core edition. Its a limited edition card that has the guts of a GTX 570 that weren't fully capable of being a GTX 570 because they failed QA or something like that. Pretty much, from some of the benchmarks I have seen, it gets approximately the same...

Ram is fine, the CPU is powerful and before anyone can accurately give you information on what graphics card you should look into, we need to know what you will be using it for.

The only game I have seen that recommends 8 GB of ram is Metro 2033 and there is little chance of it ever using that much. Most game executables are 32-bit and thus can only really make use of 2 GB of ram. On 64 bit systems, Large Address Aware can be used to increase that to 4 GB I believe, it...

4 GB of ram will do fine for at least another year. The consoles don't even have anywhere near 2 GB of ram and more and more games are being ported from the console to PC now so we won't really see any games utilize over 2 GB that often. I don't think I have ever seen my computer use over 4 GB...

I would advise against the hd 5970. It only has 1 gb of effective VRAM and this lack of VRAM really makes it FPS stutter. Right now, a gtx 580 would be your best best but the new HD 79xx series is released on January 9th. The HD7950 should retail around $449 while the HD7970 will retail around...

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LOL. Just do your homework yourself or pay someone else to do it for you. Also, this section is about hardware, what you are looking for is software, you'd have better luck asking in that section.

Look up the HAF series of cases by coolermaster. They are relatively cheap and are quite popular.

For the price, it seems pretty good as the price break down would be as follows - Quad core Xeon cpu $250-300 - Motherboard $100-250 - RAM $30 - Power supply ~$100 - GTX 460 $150-200 - Antec 900 ~$100 - DVD burner ~$20 - HDD ~$40 Total would be about $800. This is going off new prices on...

Not exactly $20 but close enough, should only be like $26-27 after taxes depending on where you live. Here is an url to price match with http://www.vuugo.com/en/eCom/Computers/Accessories/Cooling-Solutions/Cooler-Master-Hyper-212-Plus-120mm-Sleeve-CPU-Cooler/RR-B10-212P-G1.aspx That was the...

Where are you ordering it from? NCIX has it for $30 and their shipping is fairly cheap. And they have retail stores in BC and Ontario that are usually well stocked. http://ncix.com/products/?sku=41337&vpn=RR-B10-212P-G1&manufacture=COOLERMASTER

Confirmed 10 year old. If you want to back up your data, just take the bloody harddrive out which wouldn't be hard to do since you already have the laptop open. @playaJ12 - He mad bro.

Sounds like your overclock is unstable as when you put load onto it, it crashes. Its either that or your power supply. Try setting the graphics card back to stock settings.

Seems like a new cooler is a priority for you then unless your house is sitting at like 35-40C. Although after what I have heard about the people who put it together, it most likely has that preapplied thermal pad which is notorious for being terrible.I would first suggest trying to apply some...

Unless you are an animator at Pixar then yes, 8GB is more than enough. And yes, you can add more later as long as it is the same speed as the ram thats already in it.

Well if you are going to get a CPU cooler, make sure it is something with 120mm fans. I have 3 of these in my case all going at around 1000 rpm each and I literally cannot hear it and the tower is usually 2-3 feet away from my head. My computer also runs at about 24-27C idle at ambients of...

Or he could combine the performance of his two existing drives and just get a smaller drive to boot off of since Windows will not boot off of a RAID.

I would look into getting a GTX 560 Ti or a GTX 560. The GTX 560 is usually better but its about $50 on average. You currently have the stock cooler installed. I went with an aftermarket cooler and its super quiet even with 2 additional case fans so I want to ask how loud it? Also check your...