Eh, i7 is a waste in that system regardless

Caedus:

You're going to need - (prices off newegg.com)
Mobo - 150-300
New Proc - 200 - 300 (i5 vs i7)
GFX Card - 160+ (gtx460 or better)
RAM - 30-100 (4gb-8gb of DDR3)

Hopefully your PSU is 750W or more. Otherwise you might have troubles with a new build. Too lazy to read up on power usage but 750W should cover it.

just jealous, definitely should have stayed home from school today

Why?
It's future-proofed for a while and OC"s nicely.

mine OC's automatically
like a boss

But yours is in a laptop so your automatically lose...

I'm saying in his system not in general

And it's not like he's going to be taking apart his laptop and buying new parts for it



This post was edited by FunOnABun on Aug 4 2011 12:43pm

I thought you meant in a PC build, not a laptop. My bad.
Yeah, unless he upgrades the laptop in the future, it's a waste.

He'd be fine with 750 I think
Also I think that 200+ for the mobo is too much, you can get some that are more than overkill for less than that
If he has 800$ to play with I'd say put ~160 on mobo, ~220 on CPU, ~60 on RAM and ~250 on graphics card and the rest would be shipping + taxes

Fuck this, I can't remember all this, I went to the store, the guy I knew wasn't there, this other guy wouldn't give me anything actual information, he said this one was the best graphics card and it was only 70 bucks, I don't know anything about computers so I didn't know then, I look it up and its fucking 18 months old and barely an upgrade.