Wawra wrote (View Post):

Thanks guys, from your suggestions I may just go with a new computer. I'd be nice to have two anyway in case of an emergency in one.

Cake, great advice as always. Most builders follow your methods with good reason... it makes sense and provides good value for your $$ spent.

A few rules of thumb that I've used on my builds are:

1) Always go overkill with the PSU. 1000w is a good size to begin with today with respect to the power requirements of GPU, SSD, HDD ect.

2) Research your CPU and match your motherboard to it. Selecting a mobo that is upgradeable is always a wise choice.

3) Go with the best graphics card (GPU) that you can afford. It will soon be outdated and as games progress you'll need to update it...preferably after a couple of years worth of use.

4) The bigger the case the better...airflow, airflow, airflow. Whether you use a liquid cooler or multiple fans, the cooler it runs the longer it lasts.

I've always built my own (unless an offer that I just couldn't pass up comes along) and I've always taken my time looking for the right deals. Don't be in a rush, you'll most likely spend more that you need to and probably miss some very sweet deals. One of my last computers was purchased from a tech who builds completely new each year. Its value at purchase time was approximately $2500.00 if I bought everything new and I got it for $600.00 by being patient and waiting. His first asking price was $1200.00 and eventually it came down to a much more reasonable price   and the complete package was just over 6 months old. Now that was the best deal that I've had in my PC adventures for a full system that included monitor, pc, keyboard and mouse but I've also gotten some very sweet deals on GPU's , PSU's, CPU's , Motherboards and cases for other builds, again by being patient and a bit of searching.

Thanks for the advice

Thank You Cake and all. I appreciate your responses. I was just being lazy thinking I would buy a pre made computer. I will build from scratch. But, before I rebuild , I am gonna remove clean and reset my CPU, as well as replace the cpu cooling system in this old setup. It is a decent 2.6 g  i7, so maybe I will get lucky and the issue will resolve.

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