The Computer Megathread

[KoopaScooper]

It's really nice.
What are you planning to do with it?

[Ad Bot]

[Rugged]

super hd research

[Captain Crazy]

You won't be maxing out every game but it's pretty good. What do you plan on playing?

TF2, Minecraft, Portal 1 and 2, Half Life 2 (somehow I've still not purchased that), and GTA IV (well aware that the game is needy, not expecting to max it) and uh, umh

(i'm a very boring person)

[KoopaScooper]

TF2, Minecraft, Portal 1 and 2, Half Life 2 (somehow I've still not purchased that), and GTA IV (well aware that the game is needy, not expecting to max it) and uh, umh

(i'm a very boring person)

You'd be able to play most of these games on high/very high. Possibly with some AA.

[Captain Crazy]

You'd be able to play most of these games on high/very high. Possibly with some AA.

I can play with or without AA. Sometimes the UI looks crisper without, and sometimes the game looks "out of focus" with it.

Maybe it's just the stuffty, 30 buck card I have now.

[Rugged]

Is the power header connected properly?

I have the PSU hooked up to all the components, and I have the little cable things from my box connected to my motherboard.

[steve5451]

TF2, Minecraft, Portal 1 and 2, Half Life 2 (somehow I've still not purchased that), and GTA IV (well aware that the game is needy, not expecting to max it) and uh, umh
(i'm a very boring person)

You won't have any problem running all of those, but you will have to turn the settings down a bit on GTA IV.

[Legodude77]

How big of a jump is it from a 5450 to a 6670?

[Ethan]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161387

How good is this card? It fits my budget to a T.

Decent.
Are you able to stretch to this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150564
?

[Ethan]

I have the PSU hooked up to all the components, and I have the little cable things from my box connected to my motherboard.

The little cable thingies, are they connected correctly? Sounds like they aren't.

You won't have any problem running all of those, but you will have to turn the settings down a bit on GTA IV.

This.

How big of a jump is it from a 5450 to a 6670?

Pretty decent.

[steve5451]

2x2 DDR2 1066 running in dual-channel mode or 8GB DDR2 800 single channel?
I'm not sure if I should pull these unmatched sticks out.

[Uncle Bengs]

It was the RAM. I refitted it multiple times and now it works.

But now there's a bigger issue: I get a STOP 0x7B hard drive failure blue screen when I start the computer, it freezes in the middle of the little Windows 7 startup animation thing. From the info I've gathered, it seems as if I can  only fix this by using a Windows 7 install disc (which I can't find) or change some settings in BIOS (which I've tried and nothing works).

I used my old harddrive from my other computer, is it because it's having issues with the new motherboard?

[Ethan]

It was the RAM. I refitted it multiple times and now it works.

But now there's a bigger issue: I get a STOP 0x7B hard drive failure blue screen when I start the computer, it freezes in the middle of the little Windows 7 startup animation thing. From the info I've gathered, it seems as if I can  only fix this by using a Windows 7 install disc (which I can't find) or change some settings in BIOS (which I've tried and nothing works).

I used my old harddrive from my other computer, is it because it's having issues with the new motherboard?

Shouldn't be.
What's the error code in full?

2x2 DDR2 1066 running in dual-channel mode or 8GB DDR2 800 single channel?
I'm not sure if I should pull these unmatched sticks out.

I don't understand. 8GB > 2x2GB, but will it be better that way? hmm

[Uncle Bengs]

STOP 0x0000007b (0xFFFFF88009A9928, 0xFFFFFFFC00034, 0x000000, 0x000000)

is the error code, I believe.

fixed:
I got myself some o' dat Windows 7, my friend had a license lyin' 'round. I'm posting from my new comp right now ~~
I think the issue was that there were some important harddrive files missing.

[popman98]

There's the error message.