Hi all, I need help!

MikeyB420 · 29 Dec 2018 at 14:49

Best be polite and post this, my first post here?

I'm 61 yrs young, used to mess around with over clocking Opteron's/Q6600's back in the day until I lost all my stuff 8 years ago in a house fire! Been using bog standard Toshiba laptops since then but, I need to upgrade and consolidate all my data etc. into a viable working platform for this day and age!

Best regards,

MikeyB420

bainbridge · 1 Jan 2019 at 10:59

MikeyB420 said:
Best be polite and post this, my first post here?

I'm 61 yrs young, used to mess around with over clocking Opteron's/Q6600's back in the day until I lost all my stuff 8 years ago in a house fire! Been using bog standard Toshiba laptops since then but, I need to upgrade and consolidate all my data etc. into a viable working platform for this day and age!

Best regards,

MikeyB420

Welcome Mike!

jsmoke · 1 Jan 2019 at 11:00

Budget?

Devrij · 1 Jan 2019 at 23:21

MikeyB420 said:
Best be polite and post this, my first post here?

I'm 61 yrs young, used to mess around with over clocking Opteron's/Q6600's back in the day until I lost all my stuff 8 years ago in a house fire! Been using bog standard Toshiba laptops since then but, I need to upgrade and consolidate all my data etc. into a viable working platform for this day and age!

Best regards,

MikeyB420

Welcome Mike, the q6600 was a beast of a chip in its day! You'll find some pretty exciting stuff in the cpu market now, with some serious growth in core counts being the theme of 2018 (and probably 2019 of the rumours on Zen2 are true).

Storage on solid state drives is now very affordable, although for lots of data on big drives, mechanical is still king for its longevity and price per TB. Stick a thread on general hardware with some requirements and a budget and you'll get some great builds specced and advice

MikeyB420 · 2 Jan 2019 at 13:59

bainbridge said:
Welcome Mike!

Thanks

jsmoke said:
Budget?

Possibly up to £1500

Devrij said:
Welcome Mike, the q6600 was a beast of a chip in its day! You'll find some pretty exciting stuff in the cpu market now, with some serious growth in core counts being the theme of 2018 (and probably 2019 of the rumours on Zen2 are true).

Storage on solid state drives is now very affordable, although for lots of data on big drives, mechanical is still king for its longevity and price per TB. Stick a thread on general hardware with some requirements and a budget and you'll get some great builds specced and advice

Thanks and will do!

Happy New Year

MikeyB420

Devrij · 2 Jan 2019 at 14:39

MikeyB420 said:
Thanks

Possibly up to £1500

MikeyB420

You'll get a nice build from that, although if you need a monitor as well (be shame not to) then that squeezes things a bit. What are you planning to use it for?