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Just curious as to what to get these days, I have not been in here for a while, as my other interest (MTB) had my attention for a bit.
Now some time back I had planned to get an E8500 with a Biostar I45 mobo, with 4gb of PC-8500, a Samsung 1TB F1 and a Blue Ray drive, oh and a BeQuiet 650w PSU.
I have a Saphire 4870 1gb Toxic graphics card, and 4gb of PC6400 and a Scythe Kama Angle socket 775 cooler. So could have bought the memory later.
I also have a Silverstone L13 HTPC case I was planning on putting this all in.
I guess what I am wondering is, are the mobo/cpu/ram above easilly improved on for the same sort of money? Or are they still worthwhile? Or would the above mobo and memory be fine with a Q9550? I guess the mobo/cpu/ram budget would be around £350 ish?
From what I can see the new Samsung F3, BeQuiet PSU and Blue Ray drive are all similar, recommended and same sort of price brackets as the old price kit so no queries there.
Cheers,
Steve
Now some time back I had planned to get an E8500 with a Biostar I45 mobo, with 4gb of PC-8500, a Samsung 1TB F1 and a Blue Ray drive, oh and a BeQuiet 650w PSU.
I have a Saphire 4870 1gb Toxic graphics card, and 4gb of PC6400 and a Scythe Kama Angle socket 775 cooler. So could have bought the memory later.
I also have a Silverstone L13 HTPC case I was planning on putting this all in.
I guess what I am wondering is, are the mobo/cpu/ram above easilly improved on for the same sort of money? Or are they still worthwhile? Or would the above mobo and memory be fine with a Q9550? I guess the mobo/cpu/ram budget would be around £350 ish?
From what I can see the new Samsung F3, BeQuiet PSU and Blue Ray drive are all similar, recommended and same sort of price brackets as the old price kit so no queries there.
Cheers,
Steve