Hi Guys,
I am wanting a new PC but haven't really been interested in the latest tech since nearly 10 years ago when I built my own PC so have lost touch of what's what!
I built a PC which had a Asus P4C800-E Deluxe (I think) with an Intel Prescott 2.8Ghz overclocked to 3.2Ghz with 512Mb of RAM.
I upgraded about a year ago and bought a PC from a mate for £50. It's very small and has no space for additional hard drives or anything because it's built to house only what it was sold with. It has no extra power cables!
It's a Packard Bell iMedia something or other with Intel Core2 1.86Ghz and 2GB of RAM.
It's time for something new...
I am thinking of going AMD as it's generally cheaper. I was thinking going for the AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1100T Black Edition 3.30GHz (Socket AM3) with about 8GB of RAM (memory is so cheap now, I can't believe it!!).
I am aware there will be a new AMD processor coming out at some point so would like to get a new AM3+ mobo (which correct me if I'm wrong will work with the above CPU) so if I want I can upgrade easily.
I want a decent graphics card, preferably don't want to spend more than £200 on one. I am told you can combine two together now?
I've got plenty of hard drives, sata an regular ones. I would need a new case, power supply and whatever else I may have forgotten.
PC will be used mainly for browsing, E-mail, MS Office apps, programming - C#, SQL, VBA, etc. I distro hop quite a bit (Linux) and use Windows 7. And potentially the odd game, I stopped gaming on my old PC because it couldn't handle the newer games that were coming out, for example Doom 3. So may well do a bit of gaming, like I said I don't want to limit myself. If I get an decentish graphics card and do decide to game I would consider adding a 2nd gfx card - maybe.
Budget around £700. Case needs to be big, don't want to limit what can be installed by getting a small one.
Not overly interested in overclocking, if it can be achieved easily without adding a million fans or going watercooling I would be interested.
Your help would be very much appreciated.
I am wanting a new PC but haven't really been interested in the latest tech since nearly 10 years ago when I built my own PC so have lost touch of what's what!
I built a PC which had a Asus P4C800-E Deluxe (I think) with an Intel Prescott 2.8Ghz overclocked to 3.2Ghz with 512Mb of RAM.
I upgraded about a year ago and bought a PC from a mate for £50. It's very small and has no space for additional hard drives or anything because it's built to house only what it was sold with. It has no extra power cables!
It's a Packard Bell iMedia something or other with Intel Core2 1.86Ghz and 2GB of RAM.
It's time for something new...
I am thinking of going AMD as it's generally cheaper. I was thinking going for the AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1100T Black Edition 3.30GHz (Socket AM3) with about 8GB of RAM (memory is so cheap now, I can't believe it!!).
I am aware there will be a new AMD processor coming out at some point so would like to get a new AM3+ mobo (which correct me if I'm wrong will work with the above CPU) so if I want I can upgrade easily.
I want a decent graphics card, preferably don't want to spend more than £200 on one. I am told you can combine two together now?
I've got plenty of hard drives, sata an regular ones. I would need a new case, power supply and whatever else I may have forgotten.
PC will be used mainly for browsing, E-mail, MS Office apps, programming - C#, SQL, VBA, etc. I distro hop quite a bit (Linux) and use Windows 7. And potentially the odd game, I stopped gaming on my old PC because it couldn't handle the newer games that were coming out, for example Doom 3. So may well do a bit of gaming, like I said I don't want to limit myself. If I get an decentish graphics card and do decide to game I would consider adding a 2nd gfx card - maybe.
Budget around £700. Case needs to be big, don't want to limit what can be installed by getting a small one.
Not overly interested in overclocking, if it can be achieved easily without adding a million fans or going watercooling I would be interested.
Your help would be very much appreciated.
