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one, get rid of the damn 64 bit edition of windows.


^ this,

64 bit is complete trash. I had it on my 2nd hd so I could use 8gb of ram, but i had so many bloody problems with the OS and drivers not being recognized that the minor performance boost i got from 8gb was just not worth it... and anything higher than 4gb probably aint gonna affect games that much anyway, unless you want the 12gb for editting movies, cad .etc?

just keep it simple. 32 bit os, quad core, 4gb ram and a badass GPU is all you need man