When I joined ts in early 2013, my fastest computer was a tripple cored phenom 2 laptop with radeon 4250m. Over time my needs became greater and my love of my pentium 4's lesser. I went ahead and began to buy a system. I was given an nzxt source 210 as a gift, and a dell 450w psu with a 6 pin pci-e which I foolishly cut off. I went ahead and bought a cheap lga 1155 mother board, along with the new celeron g555 which out performed the q6600 in many applications and 4gb of pny ram. the rest of the system was recycled parts. As I began to wish for lesser buffering and 1080p youtube I bought a gtx 280 and was given a 600w psu. that was great untill the gtx 280 died and I had to use a 7800gt that I traded a dvi cable for. I did buy a "new old-stock" 4870 which was used very lightly untill last week I got a 5830 off of OCN for $40. I also aquired a 9800gtx+ and a radeon 4670 along the way. I am trading the 4870, 9800 gtx+ and the 4670 for an i3 2100, a p4 ht dell, a bit of ddr2 ram, a couple amd athlon x2 cpu's and a tablet. so in an hour my main rig will look like:
nzxt source 210
i3-2100
4gb of patriot ddr3-1333
1tb wd caviar green 6gb/s
ocz 600w semi modular psu
saphire amd radeon hd 5830
still on an el-cheapo motherboard which will be replaced soon