Soldato
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to go in whatever case i choose - see this thread. its going to be a high end pc, with emphasis on quietness and speed.
hardware now is amazingly cheap so this should actually cost me much at all. but whereas im quite at home going for intel if i want out and out speed, should i be considering AMD for these duties?
what i need, is a dual core cpu thats cheap as chips and i can clock the nuts off it if i want to. i want a graphics card that'll offload the decoding of hd video, probably 2gb of ram and a decent hard drive or two. hdmi graphics output would be nice. hd audio over hdmi is preferable of course, but as there isnt a single motherboard or graphics card out that can do that yet, im happy to resort to a decent sound card and using analogue outputs instead.
so what kit should i be looking at guys?there's no specific budget for this, but if i can get some right bargains thrown in id very much appreciate it
hardware now is amazingly cheap so this should actually cost me much at all. but whereas im quite at home going for intel if i want out and out speed, should i be considering AMD for these duties?
what i need, is a dual core cpu thats cheap as chips and i can clock the nuts off it if i want to. i want a graphics card that'll offload the decoding of hd video, probably 2gb of ram and a decent hard drive or two. hdmi graphics output would be nice. hd audio over hdmi is preferable of course, but as there isnt a single motherboard or graphics card out that can do that yet, im happy to resort to a decent sound card and using analogue outputs instead.
so what kit should i be looking at guys?there's no specific budget for this, but if i can get some right bargains thrown in id very much appreciate it
