New Comp!

integrated is built onto the mother board but u can still upgrade it if u buy an external one and sticking it in a sli slot. external is better yes.
If your old hard drive still works why not boot up your computer with that hard drive and back up all your files then put the new one back in?

I was planning to do that but some computer nerds on some forum topic mentioned that you can't just boot a computer with a harddrive that may not be compatible with the settings on the computer. Apparently harddrives are extremely specific and if the settings aren't appropriate it could become corrupt or something. No clue if this is true.

it deff wont hurt anything on the hard drive if u try.. but depending if u had vista on ur old hard drive, u might have problems, alot of those high spec things need vista to fully operate.

what i would do is start with a clean install anyway, the comp specs u got do seem like a good deal for 1K.

just internally plug in your old hard drive and grab the files off it that u want. You can add it in internally without booting to it.

What did you have before? These i7 CPU's are sexy

You don't have to boot from your old drive to get the files off.
Just put it in and it will probably appear as drive D: or something.
(Shut your computer off always before you open the casing or mess with it otherwise.)

Had some problems installing an external video card next to an integrated one about 10 years ago.
Maybe for you it will work better.
In general the onboard card are *really* sucky compared to the (high end) external cards.

Gfx: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series

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It makes a huuughe difference if its a 4830 4850 or 4870

set your old hdd as a slave by looking at the jumper pattern map on the top of it, plug it in and you'll have no issues with it whatsoever.

buy an external video card, internal will prob piss you off and you might have to disable the old one with some jumpers on the motherboard im not sure sure i havent messed with that stuff in a long time and the advice im giving you might be 6 years outdated cause that was about the last time i was up to date with all of it.

On February 14 2009 08:40 CrownRoyal wrote: set your old hdd as a slave by looking at the jumper pattern map on the top of it, plug it in and you'll have no issues with it whatsoever.

Don't have to do that if its a SATA drive, so keep that in mind Also if its a SATA drive, some comps have a plug for that on the back so you could in fact use the internal drive as an external without an enclosure. (Although enclosures are fairly cheap if you don't)

good move!

only thing that jumped out at me was the video card. I'd go to the store and find out what the best card is for gaming and buy that and put it in the slot.