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Hola,
It's time to replace the unit in my sig but I've been out of the loop for a long time so am not up to speed with parts.
The only parts I can reuse are the HDD. Everything else isn't reusable (in fact the gfx card is now a Geforce7600).
So far I've worked out the better option is intel so am thinking for a i5 2500.
Now for the questions:
1) What mainboard? - I've always liked Gigabyte boards, are they still any good? I have no idea what chipset to use.
2) How much RAM? - 8Gb or 16Gb, it looks fairly cheap these days?
3) What GFX card? - Again always been a Nvidia user?
4) How much wattage do I need? - I think about 600W.
5) I was looking at a prebuilt water loop for my CPU what one works well with a full size case? - I was pos looking at the Antec coolers.
Finally I'm looking at spending about 700 max, don't need monitor, kb, mouse or O/S. I'll be using it for a bit of everything, some gaming, some photoshop, the usual music playback and interweb browsing.
It's time to replace the unit in my sig but I've been out of the loop for a long time so am not up to speed with parts.
The only parts I can reuse are the HDD. Everything else isn't reusable (in fact the gfx card is now a Geforce7600).
So far I've worked out the better option is intel so am thinking for a i5 2500.
Now for the questions:
1) What mainboard? - I've always liked Gigabyte boards, are they still any good? I have no idea what chipset to use.
2) How much RAM? - 8Gb or 16Gb, it looks fairly cheap these days?
3) What GFX card? - Again always been a Nvidia user?
4) How much wattage do I need? - I think about 600W.
5) I was looking at a prebuilt water loop for my CPU what one works well with a full size case? - I was pos looking at the Antec coolers.
Finally I'm looking at spending about 700 max, don't need monitor, kb, mouse or O/S. I'll be using it for a bit of everything, some gaming, some photoshop, the usual music playback and interweb browsing.