Long story short, several components on my existing desktop are dying. PSU smells like it's about to burst into flames, motherboard has seen better days, every other component is 4 years old.
It's now going to cost me more to upgrade this baby than it will be to replace it, which is where the CP faithful come in.
I'm not a stranger to building a pc, but, I don't have much in the way of hardware knowledge.
I've gone on NCIX and customized one of their existing set ups, and am wondering what y'all think. The thing about this build is budget is tight for now but is loosening up in the fall. For right now, I need a desktop that I can word process on, download, and maybe play some games requiring little hardware (age of empires online, company of heroes), but I want as much flexibility as possible for future improvements. In the future I'll add things like an SSD for my operating system etc, but for right now, i need it to boot up.
A friend has a ATI 6970 card that he'll sell me cheap, so I'm looking for the components for everything else to hold me over for the next little while. I don't need mouse, keyboard, monitor or anything else like that.
What does everyone think?