Ok, I seem to be owning this section, I'll stop once I get things working. This should be fairly simple.
This is my current processor, AMD Sempron 3100+ 1.8GHz. I'm guessing it is horrible.
I went to play the bad company 2 beta, and I can get into a game, but it is just slow as hell. I can tell it's graphics related though, but I just bought a Radeon HD 4890. So I got to looking around, people can run the beta on high graphics just fine, so my assumption is my processor is just not good enough.
So what I need, since I have no clue about this stuff, is some suggestions on processors and motherboards, I'd like to keep it under $300 because I am planning on buying another HD4890 and running crossfire. And that's another thing, I need the slots for 2 of those cards, any help is appreciated. :)
AM3 and AM2 are the sockets that the CPU plugs into. So if you buy a mobo with a AM3 socket you need to buy a CPU that is compatible with AM3.
If you buy a New motherboard chances are your going to have to update your CPU, RAM and possibly your HDD.
You also have to make sure you RAM is compatible with the new mobo, chances are your current motherboard is only compatible with DDR RAM and the new mobos use DDR3 RAM. Xfire- candycoloredblues Drop Disk 250
I personaly am not a big fan of Asus motherboards. Every one of them I have had died within 2 years. Maybe just bad luck. I have however built a couple of computers with the MSI board. I generally pick the smaller one as running two video cards generally doesnt give you that much more performance compaired to juice to run in. Here is a mobo from msi that has crossfire.
Also 1600 ram only works if you over clock the ram speed. 1333 is the default for both motherboards. Remember anytime you overclock it causes more heat and eventually the item will fail. Also if you do get a 125 watt processor you may want to look into a better heat sink then what comes with the system. I got a 3.4 quad core am3 and I had to when ever I ran games it would over heat.
This is starting to sound like more of a chore than me just spending some money... I'll call the brother tonight, get his input on this. And it looks like if I want to put all this in, and get a heatsink put in there, a new case is going to be involved too, I should just get the rest of my stuff and put my old computer back together :P
