My 2007 build vs 2010

xgeek · 1 Nov 2010 at 16:51

My current PC is just over 3 years 9 months old and while for the most part it's still going strong the CPU cooler has taken a dump. So as I have to take it all apart to change cooler I thought I may as well upgrade

. The old components will move to another case for a family member so not wasted.

Anyway below is a screen shot of the new build components vs what I bought back in Feb 2007. I am using my old Akasa Eclipse 62 case and PSU so they are not included in the costs.

I did not do the comparison until after I ordered all the new bits but was surprised to see the new build came to only £65 more. Not bad as I now have 6 cores, 8Gb Ram vs 2Gb & 5.3TB of storage with SDD vs 1TB in the old system.

Can't wait to see how things will change when I do my next refresh in 4 years time

stulid · 1 Nov 2010 at 16:59

I notice you are picking a 890GX crossfire at 8X/8X motherboard, but picking a Nvidia GPU, either change the motherboard to a lessr 870/880 chipset board, or pick a ATI 6850 GPU so you can crossire that later on.

why are you having two WD 640GB drives and a further two samsung 2TB drives?

16GB of RAM? you really need this much? or is that an error?

Jony27 · 1 Nov 2010 at 17:01

Crossfire mobo with a NVidia graphics card? holy cow at the storage

you got an SSD,then you bought 2 Caviar blacks and THEN another F4 2TB? lol

damn was talking to a friend on facebook while typing, shouldve refreshed the page lol

and to be honest this system is total OTT

xgeek · 1 Nov 2010 at 17:09

Only 8GB ram 4 x 2GB sticks.

SSD for OS. 2 x Caviar blacks in RAID 0 for general use as a D drive and 2 x F4s in RAID 1 for storage.

All components are bought except the GPU, but will still stick with Nvidia as I don't like ATI cards. Will use the onboard GPU until I decide.

Jony27 · 1 Nov 2010 at 17:13

its says "8gb (2x4gb) Qty. 2"
and that crossfire capable board will become useless

such a waste lol

xgeek · 1 Nov 2010 at 17:19

I wanted a Gigabyte AM3 800 board with 6Gb/s SATA II. I was looking at this one but it's out of stock Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H and the one I got was only £20 more.

Jony27 · 1 Nov 2010 at 17:23

oh ok guess uhmmm loyalty comes before functionality for you lol

if that made sense
good luck with the build and enjoy

xgeek · 1 Nov 2010 at 17:26

LOL to be fair I only added the GPU card in the new build to show a comparison with the parts I got back in 2007. I don't play games on the PC and it is mainly used for encoding, streaming.