Help with a new PC

My old rig is on its way out, its 6 years old and I'm being forced to upgrade. My budget is roughly $850 - $1000 (give or take a $100 for shipping + tax).

I've been going through Newegg and ibuypower and my skull is about to split. I'd like to have a new rig that can run CoX in Ultra Mode, if possible.

My current case is liquid cooled for the cpu because my apartment gets really hot. It also has 2 80 mm fans in the front and 2 in the back with a 3 fan top mounted radiator. The case and cooling system are old, so if I were to keep that, I'm limited in socket choice, basically AMD AM3 mobos.

I know how to build my own rig (or used to, I've been out of the upgrade / hardware game for 6 years). However, my wife would like to avoid the entire mess of me working around our 2 little kids, so a pre-built system may be in order (if I can get a decent one for that price range).

I'll continue to use my old monitor (17" flat screen so no lovely high res for me), but I'd like to think that some day that would get upgraded too, but for now, it still works well enough.

My only other caveat is that any non-prebuilt rig would need to have all new fans, cables (im using old ide cables), and new thermal paste.

Thanks for any help that can be provided.

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Ok, so after a headache or 2 I think I may have something to work with. If anyone could take a look at this and pass along their 2 Inf, I'd appreciate it. This was done with Cyberpower, total cost, after discount and mail in rebates is $930.45.

CD: 24X Double Layer Dual Format DVD+-R/+-RW + CD-R/RW Drive (BLACK COLOR)
CD2: 16X DVD ROM [+21] (BLACK COLOR)
CAS: * CoolerMaster Storm Sniper Mid-Tower Gaming Case
CPU: AMD Phenom™II X4 955 Black Edition Quad-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology
FAN: Asetek 510LC Liquid Cooling System 120MM Radiator & Fan
HDD: 500GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Hard Drive)
MOTHERBOARD: * GigaByte GA-880GM-USB3 AMD 880G Chipset Support DDR3 Ultra Durable™3 Socket AM3 mATX Mainboard w/ Built-in ATI HD4200 Video, 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, HDMI, USB3.0, SATA-II, RAID, 1 Gen2 PCIe, 1 PCIe X1, & 2 PCI [+15]
# MB_ADDON: None
MEMORY: 4GB (2GBx2) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Module(Corsair)
NETWORK: Onboard Gigabit LAN Network
OS: Microsoft® Windows® 7 Home Premium (64-bit Edition)
POWERSUPPLY: 700 Watts - XtremeGear SLI/CrossFireX Ready Power Supply
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
USB: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports
VIDEO: ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 16X PCIe Video Card

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That should run it decently. (Reference: my own system, i7-860, Win7x64, 4 Gb RAM, HD 5770/1g.)

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Yea, that's pretty nice. Not a huge fan of any type of liquid cooling but these self contained mini ones seem to be alright.

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Thanks for the help. I have another question though. The mobo has a built in graphics that says it can accelerate graphics performance, but its dx 10. Win 7 and the graphics card I'm purchasing are dx11. Will the onboard card actually do anything, or worse cause a conflict due to the dx issue?

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It'll be pretty much unused. At best, you can use it to attach another monitor, or maybe use it as an OpenCL target (not sure how well ATI supports OpenCL, though). It's going to be fairly low end, so it's not going to be of much use at all.

The onboard is mostly only if you don't have a dedicated graphics card.

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That should run the game well I'd say. My only quibble/suggestion just to perhaps save $$ is to ditch the second optical drive. Unless you regularly clone CDs and DVDs, I can't figure why you'd really need it. Not a big savings I'd imagine but a few bucks saved is money you can spend elsewhere.

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