£400-£500 to spend on a folder rig/upgrade

noj · 4 Mar 2013 at 13:47

I've got a bit of cash available and thinking of setting up a dedicated folder - I apprecate its not a huge amount of cash to spend but its a start and gets me off using my gaming rig as a part time folding machine.

currently I have my spares rig:

q9400 @3.2
8800 gts
4gb ram
800w ocz psu

i'd need to replace at least the gfx card and PSU (the OCZ is just too damn noisy) and might just bin the lot and start again. I wont need a case as I have my old antec P100 that i can recycle.

any suggestions on the best upgrade path? something I can add to later as more cash comes available.

ozaudio · 4 Mar 2013 at 13:59

do you have a motherboard with that lot, bothered about electricity ? if you have a motherboard with at least 2 pci e slots, why not go for 2 x gtx 470 or gtx 460 with the 800w ocz , if its noisy, buy a new fan for it or put it into a different room.

if you dont want to buy new , email loudbob or baba, im sure they have some motherboards with 4 x pci e slots and decent intel cpus with ram . cheap aswell

with the price of intels cpu's you'd have to sink almost most of the budget for just cpu/mb/ram

noj · 4 Mar 2013 at 14:11

from memory the motherboard is a asus P5Q-e

the PSU i'm pretty sure has a fault, the fan will come on and stay on at max RPM even though the system is cool and plenty of cooling running through it.
It did the same in my gaming rig until i swapped it out and the replacement (a bequiet) never spins up like that.

tbh I'm not a fan of OCZ psu's and for £70 - £80 i'll chuck a new one in.

not bothered about electric cost (but not planning on setting up a server farm!), there's only the wife and I in the house and she's actually quite impressed about f@h. At first she laughed and then I told her about it and how it works and now she's interested in the projects and how it all works.

ozaudio · 4 Mar 2013 at 14:17

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-052-ZT&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1810

2 of them

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-058-BQ&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2466

1 of them, i just got 1 of these psu's , i cant even tell the fans on lol

im sure that gtx560ti are getting 25000ppd each these days, thats 50'000ppd from gpu alone!

you could offload the 8800gt and ocz on ebay ,

to be fair , i bet biffa and a few others come up with other / better suggestions but that comes in under budget !

ozaudio · 11 Mar 2013 at 06:24

have you bought anything yet ?

kerrgreg · 11 Mar 2013 at 07:29

Have you got access to the MM? Theres some pretty tasty dual cpu rigs for sale around that budget.

noj · 18 Mar 2013 at 10:47

sorry....took a week off and didnt check the forums, been painting and decorating the wife's room (which i should totally have pinched as a games room for me!)

no, I dont have access to the MM...i need another 830 posts so that aint happening soon.

and planning on buying the bits later this week so i can install over the weekend (once I've finished my painting and decorating duties)

kerrgreg · 18 Mar 2013 at 10:59

Cool! what did you opt for in the end?

ozaudio · 19 Mar 2013 at 06:25

kerrgreg said:
Cool! what did you opt for in the end?

this,

did you decide what you wanted

ozaudio · 19 Mar 2013 at 23:34

Get onto b grade section of ocuk you'll get a awsome build for 400 to 500 dual gtx
560ti and amd 8150 cpu

ozaudio · 24 Mar 2013 at 19:34

noj said:
sorry....took a week off and didnt check the forums, been painting and decorating the wife's room (which i should totally have pinched as a games room for me!)

no, I dont have access to the MM...i need another 830 posts so that aint happening soon.

and planning on buying the bits later this week so i can install over the weekend (once I've finished my painting and decorating duties)

did you order anything