Longevity
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Well going by previous standards, I had my old Q6600 setup for 5 years and it still going strong, just in someone elses hands. What price are you looking at spending?
Aslong as you dont go silly on volts etc, an overclocked system will last you till you need to sell it on
Aslong as you dont go silly on volts etc, an overclocked system will last you till you need to sell it on
I had an old Athlon64 3700+ (the San Diego single-core) going at 2.9GHz and 1.6 volts for five years, never had an issue with it. While it is true that overvolting will decrease the lifetime, in essence it means that you might get ten years instead of twenty. Depending on your particular unit it could be less.
Looking at this...
Mostly for Photoshop and a bit of gaming. Is it OTT?
Antec 1200 V3 - USB3.0 Full Tower Case
Intel Core I7 960 3.20GHz Quad Core Processor
Stage 5: MAX OC OF ENTIRE SYSTEM - (CPU, RAM Graphics all OCd to maximum 24/7 Stability) **MUST SELECT AN OPERATING SYSTEM**
Corsair Hydro H80 CPU Cooler
Gigabyte X58 G1 Guerilla Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard
Kingston HyperX Genesis 24GB 1600MHz CAS9 Memory Kit
HIS ATI Radeon HD 6770 1024MB GDDR5
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache
Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5
Samsung BluRay ROM DVDRW Lightscribe Optical Drive
Asus Xonar DG 5.1 PCI Sound Card with built in Headphone AMP
OCZ ZS Series 750W PSU
Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit
Fully Cable Managed
Sharkoon 120mm 2000RPM Fan
Mostly for Photoshop and a bit of gaming. Is it OTT?
Antec 1200 V3 - USB3.0 Full Tower Case
Intel Core I7 960 3.20GHz Quad Core Processor
Stage 5: MAX OC OF ENTIRE SYSTEM - (CPU, RAM Graphics all OCd to maximum 24/7 Stability) **MUST SELECT AN OPERATING SYSTEM**
Corsair Hydro H80 CPU Cooler
Gigabyte X58 G1 Guerilla Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard
Kingston HyperX Genesis 24GB 1600MHz CAS9 Memory Kit
HIS ATI Radeon HD 6770 1024MB GDDR5
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache
Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5
Samsung BluRay ROM DVDRW Lightscribe Optical Drive
Asus Xonar DG 5.1 PCI Sound Card with built in Headphone AMP
OCZ ZS Series 750W PSU
Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit
Fully Cable Managed
Sharkoon 120mm 2000RPM Fan
Well going by previous standards, I had my old Q6600 setup for 5 years and it still going strong, just in someone elses hands. What price are you looking at spending?
Aslong as you dont go silly on volts etc, an overclocked system will last you till you need to sell it on
Sell it on, Sell it on ? Who do you think we are PC World forum !
Wrong forum mate !
till you need to upgrade it !
(when are we going to get rid of the Xmas smileys?)
Sell it on, Sell it on ? Who do you think we are PC World forum !
Wrong forum mate !
till you need to upgrade it !
(when are we going to get rid of the Xmas smileys?)
Sorry.. Once you reach enough posts and required join duration, then you can use the forums to sell it on or upgrade it.
Nice system, very suitable for photostop. Can I ask, whats your budget? Once you know your budget (and we do), get an admin to move it to the general hardware or you can create a new thread and let our experts sort you out.
Would you like a pre-built system or do you mind building it yourself?
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I've got an AMD Athlon 64 4800 X2 (socket 939). Still overclocked and still running fine
. Was 2005 I bought it IIRC, so that's 7 years of use and abuse!
Nice system for photoshop, only thing I would change there is the graphics card to a Nvidia one that photoshop likes or any new GTX 5xx one as they can all be hacked to make use of Cuda acceleration. It is a registry hack the article below explains how.
Have a read here about Nvidia cards and photoshop.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/adobe-cs5-cuda-64-bit,2770.html
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