Well I had been planning to replace my aging desktop machine (Intel Q6600, Win 7) with something a bit more powerful. The main use of this machine is photo processing (Lightroom & Photoshop), Auto-CAD, Internet use for stuff that a pain to do on an iPad or phone and Spotify.
Anyway, I am now wondering if I can replace both my desktop machine and my HP Microserver N40L with a single PC. I have recently started using Plex which the N40 is really struggling with, other than this it sits there as a file server/storage/download machine and is running Win 2012 Server.
I'm looking to get something that would be able to run Win 2012 Server and maybe Win 7 or Win 8 as a VM. I would keep the N40L to use as storage with Free Nas or something similar.
The above probably doesn't make a great deal of sense but does the following look okay? I guess my main concern (other than how possible or practical the above would be) is the PSU fitting into the Micro ATX case.
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Red 4TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD40EFRX - OEM HDD £131.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £119.98
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD316G1600HC9DC01) £115.99
1 x Asus Z87 GRYPHON Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x Silverstone Strider Gold Series - 550 Watt (SST-ST55F-G) £89.99
1 x BitFenix Phenom MATX Cube Case - Midnight Black £74.95
Total : £826.38 (includes shipping : £11.25).
Anyway, I am now wondering if I can replace both my desktop machine and my HP Microserver N40L with a single PC. I have recently started using Plex which the N40 is really struggling with, other than this it sits there as a file server/storage/download machine and is running Win 2012 Server.
I'm looking to get something that would be able to run Win 2012 Server and maybe Win 7 or Win 8 as a VM. I would keep the N40L to use as storage with Free Nas or something similar.
The above probably doesn't make a great deal of sense but does the following look okay? I guess my main concern (other than how possible or practical the above would be) is the PSU fitting into the Micro ATX case.
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Red 4TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD40EFRX - OEM HDD £131.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £119.98
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD316G1600HC9DC01) £115.99
1 x Asus Z87 GRYPHON Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x Silverstone Strider Gold Series - 550 Watt (SST-ST55F-G) £89.99
1 x BitFenix Phenom MATX Cube Case - Midnight Black £74.95
Total : £826.38 (includes shipping : £11.25).
