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I personally think that no game is worth 60€, not even 50€ and I think that piracy would drop significantly if AAA titles were priced at 30€ - 40€ max. Since Steam and the huge number of great indie games especially, since there is no need anymore to pay 50€ to have fun for a long time. 50€ for me is a really large sum of money even though at the moment I could afford a lot of games I don't think I will spend that amount for a single game. It's hard to explain but for me no game feels like it's worth so much money.

I bought a Logitech MX510 6 and a half years ago and it's still working great. The from factor is perfect imo and should this thing ever break I will replace it with a MX518 I think. The only thing that sucks is Logitech's long-time support. Neither my keyboard nor my mouse are officially supported anymore so the drivers don't work very well with Win7.

I couldn't vote PC only because I had to answer the upper poll aswell, so I ticked Gamboy because I used to have one. I'm happy with only my PC but some day i'm gonna get a portable console, perhaps the NGP, depending on its price.

My numbers where both including the pre-order bonus...

What? Where? From Germany on Steam it's 45€ or 80€ for the two-pack.

Well then, thank you all very, very much for your help and if you want to play some games some time after tuesday just add me on Steam (id: umfk, or see Steam thread). I will order the parts tonight. (The shop charges no shipping when you order between midnight and 6 am.)

Sigh, Kovach_, now you completely confused me. I guess it's true that I could get a Sandy Bridge/DDR3/6850 system for about 550€. But in the long run I think I save more money by using my old parts (MB, CPU cooler, RAM) for as long as possible. And I expect this PC to serve me longer than 2 years, I usually start looking for an upgrade only if the games start to look really terrible . Can anyone answer my question regarding the RAM? Is it more important to use the same brand or the same specs? Both my old RAM and the one in the picture are PC2-6400 with timings 4-4-4-12. They should work fine together although 2 are from Corsair and 2 from Kingston, right? @Johnny At some point you usually have to upgrade almost all your hardware parts because of a change in technology.

So for 450€ you think you can put together a significantly better PC including a new Motherboard? Show me how

I tried to get the same RAM but the Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 that they sell has a CL of 5 instead of 4. I don't think they produce the RAM I have in there anymore. So I thought it's more important to have the same timings than the same brand. Am I correct? Netzteil is the German word for PSU, the comments seem to agree that it's a good PSU and I also found some in-depth reviews that concluded the same. (The full name is actually "650W Rasurbo GaminX & Power GAP656 V2") Seems to be a small German company that makes quality PSUs but includes no manual, no accessories etc. and can therefore sell them for a low price. @Kovach_ I think this upgrade would get me very far and would push the inevitable completely new rig a few years away. And I think 300€ is actually a really good deal for the huge improvement I'm expecting.

Ok, so I put some stuff together, does that look like a good upgrade? Do all the parts fit together?

I've been looking through the internet to find a suitable PSU but I'm not sure what to think. The official specs of the Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 recommend a 600W(!) PSU but in the comments some people claim they use a 350W PSU and have absolutely no problems. I was thinking about getting a brand 530W PSU. If I ever wanted to get a second 5770 to use in Crossfire, would that PSU be powerful enough? I currently have 1 SATA DVD-RW and 2 IDE HDDs installed.

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Thanks for the advice! I only have a 400W power supply in there atm, can you recommend a good one with enough power for the quad core and the new graphics card? (It has to have IDE power supplies because I want to keep my old IDE hard drives, don't know if new PS's come with them or not.) And is my Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro powerful enough to keep the processor cool? I'm thinking about getting a Q8400, a Sapphire HD 5770 and 2x1024 MB Corsair RAM. The total cost would be about 250 €. I might also get a new case because mine sucks. I'm gonna wait a few weeks before I order anything though, because I have some exams to learn for right now.

Hey guys, haven't looked into the forum since it moved. I hope everyone's fine. I was hoping you could help me with my current hardware situation, it's slightly complicated but please bear with me. A few years back I bought a nice gaming PC with the following specs: Asus P5W DH Deluxe Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 2.4 GHz 256MB Sapphire Radeon X1950XT 2x1024MB DDR2 Corsair Twin RAM In fall 2009 I went on a 1 year study exchange to Tokyo so I bought a nice gaming Laptop to take with me: Intel Core 2 Duo P8600, 2.4GHz Mobility Radeon HD 4650 3 GB RAM I returned from Japan last summer and got the desktop machine back from my brother and he reminded me of something I had completely forgotten. Shortly before I went away my graphics card broke. It starts up everything nicely but after some time spikes appear and get worse until the games are unplayable. Seems the card overheated at some point. Seems pretty irreperable to me and from what I know those spikes appear when parts of the graphics card's RAM is fried and so the vertex positions can't be read and either default to 0 or just return some nonsensical value. Anyway, up until now I simply used my laptop plugged into my gaming monitor and that was fine. Until I borrowed Black Ops from a friend today and tried playing it. Even on the lowest settings in my monitor's native resolution I have horrible lags in the second part of the first mission. It's unplayable and looks horrible. So what I need now is just some advice. Is Black Ops a poor console port and very badly optimized which would mean I can wait for some time to get a new gaming rig and still play other games until then? Is my old rig upgradable? Or is the only thing I can do to buy a completely new one? I have some money saved up but since I turned 25 recently my parents won't get any child support anymore soon(a German thing I presume) and I have to find my own health insurance so I would love to wait a bit. As a student I don't make much money. What do you guys think?