Current system is a Q6600 and 4gb of ram on a gigabyte motherboard. Its served me well but is starting to show its age
It has one ssd for the o/s and programs, 3 hard drives and a dvdrw and a XFX ATI Radeon HD 5750 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card.
I want a new case, motherboard, cpu and ram. I'd like to keep the same graphics card if the motheboard supports it (although its 2011 so I suppose it can be replaced for not a lot)
Its mainly a web browser, movie server but occasionally gets a steam game or sims 3 played on it. So not high end graphics stuff (the Q6600 does pretty well tbh) Sometimes it will encode a dvd or rip one to mp4. lots of Sata connectors and room for hard drives inside, plenty of usb ports on the back and a couple on the front. Subtile looking case, no windows or wotnot.
What do you lot think? Budget wise, up to £500 but not if its not necessary.
It has one ssd for the o/s and programs, 3 hard drives and a dvdrw and a XFX ATI Radeon HD 5750 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card.
I want a new case, motherboard, cpu and ram. I'd like to keep the same graphics card if the motheboard supports it (although its 2011 so I suppose it can be replaced for not a lot)
Its mainly a web browser, movie server but occasionally gets a steam game or sims 3 played on it. So not high end graphics stuff (the Q6600 does pretty well tbh) Sometimes it will encode a dvd or rip one to mp4. lots of Sata connectors and room for hard drives inside, plenty of usb ports on the back and a couple on the front. Subtile looking case, no windows or wotnot.
What do you lot think? Budget wise, up to £500 but not if its not necessary.