Hey all.
First off i'd like to say i'm comfortable in putting components together so the option for buying bits separate is fine.
Now i haven't been up to date with component advances for around 5 years so i'm asking here to ask some professional hobbyists and whenever i needed anything component-wise come here first.. and also because im quite lost and dont know where to start really.
My current system is as follows:
1 - HIS ATI Radeon HD 4850 IceQ 4 Turbo 512MB (PCI-E)
1 - Asus P5Q Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-E DDR2 Motherboard
1 - Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.5GHz @ 3.2Ghz
1 - Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB)
1 - Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler
1 - Akasa Ultra Quiet 500W Paxpower Active PFC ATX2.2 PSU
2 x Maxtor Diamondmax 10 250gb in Raid 0 (err.. 11 years old?)
1 x OCZ Vertex 3 SSD loaded with:
1 - Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (Still have disc)
1 - Samsung SM-2253BW Aqua 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor
It's on a lot.. I play games on it, though i have been stopped when i wanted to play some. Witcher 2, Skyrim with mods, Mechwarrior Online, Shogun 2 are all games that i own but i cant play them at a quality to do them justice and get the full experience of them so i end up playing games like Don't Starve, Faster than Light, Torchlight II.
Also, i'm still stuck at directX9, and DDR2 so the reason i'm here is because i'm confused with the options i have.
Though my current thinking is maybe upgrade graphics card and leave the rest alone.. OR just go mad. Upgrade everything, maybe transplant the harddrives but everything else buy brand new with the idea of the new system being capable of taking whats thrown at it for a good few years.
Now, if i go mad.. i wanna go full mad. Dual graphics cards, everything that can be watercooled is, a noise dampened case with the PSU at the bottom.
The reason i would go full mad is because when i started building computers it was from cannabilised bits from my older brothers comp. It was a hobby back then.. i made air vents from tinfoil, had a manual variable resistor to control the fans to give it a "power mode" (though obviously, not really but to my imagination it was like Tracker's car from M.A.S.K flying off over the horizon).
I had an old schoolbook i would draw watercooling block designs on, peltier cooler calculations in etc. There was a guy in Grimsby near where i lived who had been injured in a motorbike accident and was wheelchair bound but he was a celebrity to me, he had a watercooling system that went outside his house, underground a bit.. then back in, he'd even overclocked his electric wheelchair so it would do about 12mph.
So if i build a computer again... its for the teenager that lives on inside me. I want to to look upon it like its capable of anything, but only just.
Now price wise.. it doesnt matter, however i dont want to spend over £400 on graphics cards or £200 on a cpu. I would like it to be built from bits that when they came out.. they were the great at what they did, not the best.. but reliable and hardy enough to get pushed further.
Now the last requirement may seem fanboi-ish and maybe it is, but to me.. it's a choice from respect.. and to honour companies that i always admired. Something about them that made me nod my head and think "yeah.. they're doing that right"
So it must have:
Sapphire ATi graphics card(s)
AMD processor
have whatever has become "basic standard" for new builds in terms of RAM density, cpu cores, directX version.
Ok forget the upgrade graphics card only option.. i'm making this thing.. dont care if it takes 3 months to setup right, don't care if its a rag-tag bunch of components that together make the team from the Mighty Ducks film.. eventually it will show its strength.
So.. where do i start?
Infact, why dont i make a Pc on behalf of all enthusiasts? If there's a particular component you got that still brings a smile to you face, tell me about it, maybe its just a fan you got.. or a cable but to you it was the best cable ever!
And finally, thanks for always being here, and for reading this post
First off i'd like to say i'm comfortable in putting components together so the option for buying bits separate is fine.
Now i haven't been up to date with component advances for around 5 years so i'm asking here to ask some professional hobbyists and whenever i needed anything component-wise come here first.. and also because im quite lost and dont know where to start really.
My current system is as follows:
1 - HIS ATI Radeon HD 4850 IceQ 4 Turbo 512MB (PCI-E)
1 - Asus P5Q Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-E DDR2 Motherboard
1 - Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.5GHz @ 3.2Ghz
1 - Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB)
1 - Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler
1 - Akasa Ultra Quiet 500W Paxpower Active PFC ATX2.2 PSU
2 x Maxtor Diamondmax 10 250gb in Raid 0 (err.. 11 years old?)
1 x OCZ Vertex 3 SSD loaded with:
1 - Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (Still have disc)
1 - Samsung SM-2253BW Aqua 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor
It's on a lot.. I play games on it, though i have been stopped when i wanted to play some. Witcher 2, Skyrim with mods, Mechwarrior Online, Shogun 2 are all games that i own but i cant play them at a quality to do them justice and get the full experience of them so i end up playing games like Don't Starve, Faster than Light, Torchlight II.
Also, i'm still stuck at directX9, and DDR2 so the reason i'm here is because i'm confused with the options i have.
Though my current thinking is maybe upgrade graphics card and leave the rest alone.. OR just go mad. Upgrade everything, maybe transplant the harddrives but everything else buy brand new with the idea of the new system being capable of taking whats thrown at it for a good few years.
Now, if i go mad.. i wanna go full mad. Dual graphics cards, everything that can be watercooled is, a noise dampened case with the PSU at the bottom.
The reason i would go full mad is because when i started building computers it was from cannabilised bits from my older brothers comp. It was a hobby back then.. i made air vents from tinfoil, had a manual variable resistor to control the fans to give it a "power mode" (though obviously, not really but to my imagination it was like Tracker's car from M.A.S.K flying off over the horizon).
I had an old schoolbook i would draw watercooling block designs on, peltier cooler calculations in etc. There was a guy in Grimsby near where i lived who had been injured in a motorbike accident and was wheelchair bound but he was a celebrity to me, he had a watercooling system that went outside his house, underground a bit.. then back in, he'd even overclocked his electric wheelchair so it would do about 12mph.
So if i build a computer again... its for the teenager that lives on inside me. I want to to look upon it like its capable of anything, but only just.
Now price wise.. it doesnt matter, however i dont want to spend over £400 on graphics cards or £200 on a cpu. I would like it to be built from bits that when they came out.. they were the great at what they did, not the best.. but reliable and hardy enough to get pushed further.
Now the last requirement may seem fanboi-ish and maybe it is, but to me.. it's a choice from respect.. and to honour companies that i always admired. Something about them that made me nod my head and think "yeah.. they're doing that right"
So it must have:
Sapphire ATi graphics card(s)
AMD processor
have whatever has become "basic standard" for new builds in terms of RAM density, cpu cores, directX version.
Ok forget the upgrade graphics card only option.. i'm making this thing.. dont care if it takes 3 months to setup right, don't care if its a rag-tag bunch of components that together make the team from the Mighty Ducks film.. eventually it will show its strength.
So.. where do i start?
Infact, why dont i make a Pc on behalf of all enthusiasts? If there's a particular component you got that still brings a smile to you face, tell me about it, maybe its just a fan you got.. or a cable but to you it was the best cable ever!
And finally, thanks for always being here, and for reading this post
