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Sweetloaf

Sweetloaf

Sweetloaf

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Due to a bit of a weird PC meltdown situation I'm looking to upgrade. More for music App performance than anything else.

Current spec:

Opteron 180
2Gb Geil Ultra
MSI K8N Platinum
Nvidia 9600GT
Tagan 480Watt.

I'm keeping the current graphics card because I only really play WoW and it's fine for that. I'm not looking for a monster spec, Dual core is fine for my needs over Quad I think. I'm also running XP so 2Gb RAM will do me for now

Here's my starting point:

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I would consider a Q6600 if it's pretty much a given that it will run at 3Ghz+

I'm running 3 Hard drives, with that in mind would my Tagan 480W be sufficient? Do I really need the Corsair?

Thoughts gentlemen please.
 
I understand that nothing is 100% but in reality I would have thought that 3Ghz would be a reasonable expectation. If it weren't I'd expect a few more "Mine doesn't" posts :)

Yes. yes, I could run it at stock for a while, but that doesn't really happen around here does it? :) As far as overclocking to what I need, it's more a case of the higher I can go the more convenient it is for me, running several instances of VST plugins can really drain a CPU I don't need it to be all powerful but the higher it goes the easier things will be.

Just looking at the Phenom II 920 now as well, It would mean a cheaper mobo and set me back about another £20
Hmm...choices choices.

Any more opinions on what a Tagan 480 can cope with?
 
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Phenom 940 is now looking tempting but I don't want to be faffing with bios updates, anyone know if any boards recognise them out of the box?
 
95thrifles said:
another option for you would be to just get this board, P43, more or less same and save you £25. If youre happy OC'ing and looking to do it on a budget you could take the CPU down to an E7400 (2.8@stock) or even lower, and clock it back up, that'd save you another £55. Keep your current PSU which will suffice and get a 4 gig kit of RAM, this'll set you back less than 250 total
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Having read up a little more it appears that Cubase SX3 utilises quad core CPUs so I think that's probably the way I'm now heading, I've upped my budget to about £450 and I'm now looking at the Phenom II CPUs they seem to outperform similarly priced Intel quads at present but I sense a price war coming on so I'll keep my ear to the ground for a week or so :)

4Gb is a little bit of a waste running XP 32.
 
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