WestcoastPCBuilder

It's funny to look at Windows laptops at best buy. My mother wanted to purchase a second laptop for her business downtown, so we went looking and she was prepared to purchase that day.
 
I am budget minded, my mother is purely aesthetics. I combed over every laptop from $500-$1000 and there were flaws in them all ... from terrible viewing angles, too cheap plastic construction, major keyboard bend, terrible color combo's, on and on.
 
Walked over to the apple section to see their iMAC, Macbooks and iPADS, I couldn't find a problem with them. They were all very high quality with beautiful screens.

It's funny to look at Windows laptops at best buy. My mother wanted to purchase a second laptop for her business downtown, so we went looking and she was prepared to purchase that day.
 
I am budget minded, my mother is purely aesthetics. I combed over every laptop from $500-$1000 and there were flaws in them all ... from terrible viewing angles, too cheap plastic construction, major keyboard bend, terrible color combo's, on and on.
 
Walked over to the apple section to see their iMAC, Macbooks and iPADS, I couldn't find a problem with them. They were all very high quality with beautiful screens.

Some people have something called 'taste', and also something called 'disposable income'. If this iMAC is in line with their 'taste' and fits in with their 'disposable income' it will be great for them.
 
If you can offer them a white AIO OSX with warranty tech support for less money, please do it and you will be worth billions.

I never thought about a PCI-E extender. You could definitely have the card run loose, or keep the side panel open. Many people don't like that, and I don't know of the OP would be comfortable with it. It's too much GPU for the E4600 as I even have a bottleneck in 50% of games I play with my set-up. I had an HD5570 in here before, put in this HD7750 and my FPS were the same in all games, I could crank they settings up however, but being held at 40fps in BF3 isn't ideal, espeically multi-player, costs me a lot of deaths!

Sure, R7 260 through R9 280x are rebranded 7xxx series cards with higher frequencies. R9 290/x being the new successor and everything stepping down a notch ...
 
Here's some reading material.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Radeon_Rx_200_Series
 
Here's a reference you can .... reference as far as GPU hierarchy is concerned ...
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html

Dual slot cards won't fit. Even some single slot cards with high stock coolers won't fit because the capacitors right above the PCI-E slot impede on the installation.
 
A single slot card will work fine.
 
The GTX 750 Ti is way to strong of a video card for your E4600 2.2ghz processor, it would be a waste of money. There's that R7 250 ghost, or some GT 640's.
 
I have a single slot HD 7750 installed, however, they are not longer on the market and the R7 250 is the next best choice.
 
If you let me know where you are making your purchase from, I can suggest the best card possible given the confines of your current predicament.

Which store or stores are you going to purchase a video card from ?
 
XFX R7 250 GHOST will pop right in. I would recommend the eVGA GT 740 but not sure if the cooler will bump the capacitors on the mobo.
 
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150711

I have the same tower, same config except a quicker processor. You'll need a single slot card since the fan shroud face up ^ and not down like ATX, this is BTX.
 
There isn't a single slot GTX 750 Ti on the market yet. It would be to much GPU for the CPU anyway.

Yeah. 2x18amp rails. 288w on the 12v. You can put in any card that doesn't require a 6-pin. I put an HD 7750 in mine. Total CPU bottlenck, but it will work fine. I've had tons of cards on Dell towers, even on the 250w rated one's with card requiring a connector. They're rated for continuous power, not peak.
 
When I worked at a computer shop, I wasn't getting getting Dell dimension or Optiplex's coming in with blown PSU's. I was getting HP and Acers.
 
EDIT : Make sure it's a single slot card. Since it's a BTX form factor the card faces the opposite way. Even the cooler needs to be single slot because the capacitors above the PCI-Ex16 slot. I frankensteined a GT 430 in by cutting part of the heatink shroud off.

HERE I DID IT FOR YOU
 

Someone at my college found this. Sounds like a legit website but why is it so cheap?
 
http://www.cdkeys.com/pc/games/grand-theft-auto-v-5-pc-cd-key-steam
 
Wrong link didnt I lel 

I can't wait for the Na'Vi vs NiP finals. As a Na'Vi fanboy, I made a bet of my most valuable skins (not very much) and hope for the best!
 
 
This is a thread discussing CS not Starcraft 2 though.

If you're in the US, you could use it free version of HotspotShield.
 
I have the paid version because it has a server here in Australia, and $25 AUD (with Linus's sponsor code) is pretty damn good for a yearly subscription.
 
But the free version served me well for a while, i just got tired of the slow connection.

I wouldn't worry about it. I had a forklift gig and it took me about 1 hour before I was comfortable. Putting pallets 20 feet up, weighing over 1000lbs. It's quite easy to get the hang of. It's not tons of pulleys and levers in tandem, you make one adjustment at a time. If you aren't accident prone, ie, getting in fender benders all the time ... than you got it made.
 
4:05 - 4:15 is one of the best things to master so you don't start breaking pallets, raising pallet correctly without a jolt etc. This video is pretty much your breakdown of a forklift.

I'm not sure if it's a typo but on Newegg they had an XFX core R7 260x for 110 so I got that
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150688

With the new Windows driver model, all you need to do is install the drivers over the old one.
If things does screw up, it should not, but in the case there is, when you install the Nvidia drivers, and you go under Advanced, you'll have the option to do a Clean Install. Check it.
It will detect everything there is now, including its drivers settings, and remove everything, and once done, install the drivers.
 
My recommendation is:
 -> Don't install what you dont' need. Menaing you go under Advanced, and you check all the Nvidia 3D stuff that you most likelly don't have, and even the Updater. GeFroce experience is up to you to keep or not. I like things ultra clean and also don't use it, so I don't install it.

I would go with Mass Effect series. Sci-fi, roleplaying, 3rd person shooter, strategy, cinematic orgasm.
 
Bioshock. I couldn't run it well on my PC at the time, when I finally could, I wasn't into the art style of the game. Simple FPS with a decent enough story. Tried the second game, solidified my opinion that I don't likey!
 
Witcher is really good.
 
Check out some youtube vids of the walkthrough #1 video's. See if anything appeals to you.

Alright. Was more concerned of absolutely no treble coming out of these 'satellite drivers', but I guess I'll just grab the cheapest, probably big box, so I can return them without occuring the 15% restocking fee. Thank you for the help. Will post a review when I get them next weekend.

They're all cheap speakers that perform more or less the same. Get the one you think looks the best.
 
The Edifier's satellite speakers are probably slightly better because they have both a mid woofer and a tweeter, but the sub should be about the same.

I use to be an EVGA fanboy ... no matter the card, had to EVGA for their awesome lifetime warranty. This was a 9600gt OC'd to 8800gt ' esque ' ness.
 
Intel. 2.2ghz OC'd to 3.6ghz.
 
For a while I protected green teams honor and stuck with promoting EVGA. After 4xxx series of amd/ati, I started to change my opinion and recommend whatever was best for your money.
 
Processors, always intel.
GPU : best for your $$$.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqnxroGd3mA

Orange is the new black
 
Sons of Anarchy
 
House of cards

Watch Siberia, best series ever! 
 
they were not able to promote it though, so they stopped after the first season on the biggest cliffhanger in history!

Tried SOA, TWD and GOT, just not my forte.
 
House of cards with Kevin Spacey, I have put off for a while. Same with Newsroom, believing that these are inferior and not my taste, I will check out the first episode of HOC to see, usually it only takes me 1 episode to know if me likey!
 
Thank you for the recommendations.

Here's an i3-4xxx series CPU benchmarked with an R9 280x = 7970 = 7850's in crossfire.
http://www.hardcoreware.net/intel-core-i3-4340-review/1/

I don't think this has been posted yet (If it has, mod please delete this) 
 
but here you all go
 
https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/buy/battlefield-3/pc-download/base-game/standard-edition?LSsiteID=c1Tj0Njalu4-mPUvxl7WYTb1fTWOGuzoew&c=c1Tj0Njalu4&sourceid=Origin_AFF_LS315&utm_campaign=origin-aff-us-ls-aff&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=affiliate
 
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