Timmah!

AMD would be really great if they'd improve upon their memory controllers; as it stands, their chips are about 10-15% slower in translated fps all other things being equal. They really do shine in multi-core apps when it comes to value & performance.

Heynow.

Have you tried a fresh reinstall of COD4 & the two patches?

His website posts 2nd when doing the search about which he complains being buried. Don't see what's the complaint.

Here're some options to look over to get a feel for what you might want. Youtube is another place to look for advice on gaming builds. https://www.wepc.com/builds/best-gaming-pc-under-500/ The gpu will be the heart of the gaming system, so allocate as much $ as you can for that part. Black Friday & Cyber Monday are coming up, hold off for those deals. That's what I'm waiting on to build my next rig. Deals should be rolling in over the next couple weeks.

If you want to save some $, I can help you like I did with a couple buddies in NZ; They would paypal me the money & I would then buy the gpu/cpu & have it shipped to them as a gift.

Bro, the 660 gpu released like 7 years ago... Even 500 dollars, Pounds, whatever over 7 years is a manageable upgrade schedule.

Heynow!

Buddy! Happy Birthday!

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I would also wait until the first week in December for Black Friday/ Cyber Monday deals.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aws/cart/add.html?creativeASIN=B07STGGQ18&linkCode=w61&imprToken=JREkmzPIzxt9LUXjQzkoyQ&slotNum=61&AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJOASTQRBLOVVPUQA&AssociateTag=wepcus-20&ASIN.1=B07STGGQ18&Quantity.1=1&ASIN.2=B07MVZG7Z9&Quantity.2=1&ASIN.3=B07FBVYFKH&Quantity.3=1&ASIN.4=B07L3D19MY&Quantity.4=1&ASIN.5=B01B72W1VA&Quantity.5=1&ASIN.6=B07XHH4YG4&Quantity.6=1&ASIN.7=B075DMYVBV&Quantity.7=1 It's a whole rig, but a decent price for a complete build... minus the peripherals. Being the GPU is the workhorse, you want the best you can for gaming, so that you're not taxing the cpu & producing a bottleneck on the graphics end of the deal.

Confused? Isn't this the classic look of an idiot. I sometimes see that vacuous expression in the mirror some mornings.