[MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

[Tokthree]

I dug up an old windows vista computer from my parents' basement the other day. Gonna buy new parts for it and upgrade to 8.1 within the next week. Idk if I should put it in my student apartment or house tho.

Should probably clean all the soil out of it first

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[Georges]

I can't decide if I should upgrade my CPU (FX 4130) to a FX 6350, FX 4350, or spend the extra and get a new motherboard and an i3 4130 or 4330. :/

what are your opinions on this?

[Pecon]

what are your opinions on this?

I wouldn't bother unless you go straight for the 8000 series or higher ones.

[Georges]

I wouldn't bother unless you go straight for the 8000 series or higher ones.

but most games won't make use of all 8 cores, so it so won't perform at well as an Intel CPU, right?

[Maxwell.]

I really need help right now, I got a spare computer from my brother for £30 and it had xp on it, I installed windows 7 (absolute clean install) and the gpu isn't working and I didn't even get the model name of it
will I just go back to xp or somehow get the name of my graphics card

[Foxscotch]

are you able to see the screen? you could run dxdiag to find out the model of the GPU

[Maxwell.]

are you able to see the screen? you could run dxdiag to find out the model of the GPU

I don't think it's using the right one
800x600 res isn't a good sign and I can't change it

[Foxscotch]

jesus christ i am a disgrace

[Ipquarx]

How do you not know the name of your graphics card?

[Pecon]

I don't think it's using the right one
800x600 res isn't a good sign and I can't change it

Is it a tower with a GPU in the PCI Express port? Make sure you're plugged into the graphics card and not the motherboard.

If it's not that, then it's certainly a driver issue. Go on intel's website and download the Intel graphics driver.

[Maxwell.]

How do you not know the name of your graphics card?

because I didn't check the thing before I upgraded and I'm an idiot

Is it a tower with a GPU in the PCI Express port? Make sure you're plugged into the graphics card and not the motherboard.

If it's not that, then it's certainly a driver issue. Go on intel's website and download the Intel graphics driver.

i opened the tower and saw there was a green box plastic thing covering things behind the vga port, didn't see anything in the PCI slot though

Jesus Christ, ie keeps crashing when I try to check for updates and chrome says every site is untrusted

[Ninja Decoy]

i opened the tower and saw there was a green box plastic thing covering things behind the vga port, didn't see anything in the PCI slot though

Oh damn, one of those computers.If i recall correctly, that's used to direct the air from the cpu cooler out to the front. Its awful, but we have them in some of our computers here.

[The Black Card]

Planning on building my first custom PC, can someone tell me if this build works? I have a 980 USD budget.

[#Ravencroft]

The video card is far from impressive

[Bisjac]

Wireless g and n are outdated. You want ac.