A friend offer me this sound card for 30 bucks so i have option to buy this or the titanium HD. Is the extra 100+ bucks worth it. The Sb 0460 is old so i couldnt find much info on it

thanks for those but the answers are still very broad. What do you suggest i do first?

I did Furmark and my GPU ran fine. I figured out that the artifact came from the monitor since it dissappear after i turn screen off then on. According to the event viewer, The problem is critical - kernel power - event id: 41. It happend 4 times total in 1 month span, 3 of those happen while my bro was playing league of legend and the last one happen while i was watching youtube in fullscreen mode. I played about 20 hours of the witcher 2 but not a single crash and no artifiact. I did a bios update, video update, virus scan, clean registry and some other stuff. Hopefully that'll help.

My spec:

I7 2600 - stock

diamond 6970 - stock

1tb hdd

8gb ram - i dont know which brand, does it matter?

700w xon - 700p12n

and i do have the latest Video driver. Another thing i forgot to mention that i see some artificat such as green horizontal line in blac area on my screen while i tried to use eyefinity but i only had 2 screen at the time so i didnt think much of it. Is it possible that the GPU causing the lag?

Sorry to bring this up but i just got back to work on this.

I did a memtest and it passed. What do you mean brand of Intel and W? It is an i7 2600 and the PSU isXON-700P12N. It crashed again today while i play League of Legend but i think it just random crash and not because the PSU cant handle the load since it never crash while i play The witcher 2 or Crysis 2. So what should i do next? should i swap out PSU and see how it goes?

Everything working fine temp wise or so i think (i attached a pic of my CPUID HW) But recently i experienced some computer freeze. The first time it happend is about 2 weeks ago and i had to do a restart since it just completely froze. And just now it happend again so i am just wondering what is the cause of this. The ram and PSU is pretty ****ty brand and i am running an i7 2600 and 6970

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I dont know if this is new news but it is new to news to me when i went to fry yesterday and been told that they will price match any competitor include Microcenter.

Here the spec:

Dual core Intel E6300 2.8Ghz -http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116091
EVGA 9800GT 1gb version -http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130440
18x DVD Burner -http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151133
2GB ddr2 ram -http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211066
Gibabyte motherboard for overclocking need -http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128017
Cooler Master case -http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119077
500W Power Supply -http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817189005
500gb Western Digital Hard Drive -http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136073

and i got offer $250. Good enough?

well i bought it without the gtx 460 for 320 since i want to save up for better vid card for 1080p gaming. He said he got a friend that buy a lot of computer part to "test" it out then sell it for him for really cheap. Then he sell back to me, all the compenent look very news and i stress test everything and it all work so far. and he said he would hook me up if he get card like GTX 560ish performance. Let hope this is a real deal and nothing break in a few months lol