I recently had a problem with my PC, I can run Windows XP Pro with no problem paint, listen to music and even use Word, Excel and Power Point but as soon as I run any game requiring a bit of graphics my computer would just freeze up on me and that is rather irritating.

So naturally I thought it could be my Radeon HD 2600 Sapphire card that was giving me the grief, so I bought a brand new Radeon HD 3850 Sapphire card but that did not solve my problem, so now I bought a new Motherboard and CPU (I’ll list all my parts later..). The worst part is that my suppliers cant get me the equipment I need.

I had…
AMD 4600+ AM2+ CPU
MSI K9A2 Platinum (Not that I am a fan of MSI)
Radeon HD 2600 Sapphire
2Gb RAM (No name brand)
And a 600w power supply

I asked for one of the following MOBOs…
M3A32-MVP Deluxe/WiFi-AP ASUS
K9A2 Platinum MSI (My old board)
GA-MA790FX-DQ6 Gigabyte
GA-MA790FX-DS5 Gigabyte
PC-AM2RD790 Sapphire

There reply was that they cant supply me with one of those cause they only supply Intel.

So I ordered a…
Intel® Desktop Board D5400XS
Intel® Core™2 Extreme processors
Radeon HD 3850 Sapphire

All that cost me about R5600.00 (that is about $563.25 USD).
So what do you think about the price (good, bad or ugly).

(I’ll post a pic of my rig later this month)