Hi,
Although I'm not new to building my own PC I haven't done so for about 6 years except the odd part upgrade and thus I'm a little out of touch!
I use my xbox360 for gaming so this would be all other tasks, running multiple VM's (it's a work thing) and the odd movie - not really HD, thats in the living room.
I have HDD's, and graphics wise I was just going to use my 256MB 6200 and quadro 280 as I run 4 monitors.
CPU wise I'm looking at the following:
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)
I've read this is quite easy to overclock hence the additional cooler etc.
Motherboard: Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 (MB-135-AB)
RAM: 8GB of any suitable RAM - I'm TOTALLY lost with all the different RAM types now!!!!
Hardest part is the case! I don't want a full tower and preferably not a mini tower either. I would prefer a "business" style thin case, like the Dell Optiplex or I was even looking at the Antec Fusion HTPC Case? I would have a shuttle but I don't think they support 8GB RAM and wouldn't heat be a problem?
PSU wise the Antec has 430watt, but according to their wattage estimator I'll need over 600 if I overclock! So I don't think their case will be able to take that heat?
Any ideas greatly received as this is driving me potty and I don't want to order the wrong bits!
Budget wise for all that I was looking at £600 all in, if you think it be worth getting a better graphics card whilst I'm at it I would consider that as well.
Thanks in advance Tim
Although I'm not new to building my own PC I haven't done so for about 6 years except the odd part upgrade and thus I'm a little out of touch!
I use my xbox360 for gaming so this would be all other tasks, running multiple VM's (it's a work thing) and the odd movie - not really HD, thats in the living room.
I have HDD's, and graphics wise I was just going to use my 256MB 6200 and quadro 280 as I run 4 monitors.
CPU wise I'm looking at the following:
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)
I've read this is quite easy to overclock hence the additional cooler etc.
Motherboard: Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 (MB-135-AB)
RAM: 8GB of any suitable RAM - I'm TOTALLY lost with all the different RAM types now!!!!
Hardest part is the case! I don't want a full tower and preferably not a mini tower either. I would prefer a "business" style thin case, like the Dell Optiplex or I was even looking at the Antec Fusion HTPC Case? I would have a shuttle but I don't think they support 8GB RAM and wouldn't heat be a problem?
PSU wise the Antec has 430watt, but according to their wattage estimator I'll need over 600 if I overclock! So I don't think their case will be able to take that heat?
Any ideas greatly received as this is driving me potty and I don't want to order the wrong bits!
Budget wise for all that I was looking at £600 all in, if you think it be worth getting a better graphics card whilst I'm at it I would consider that as well.
Thanks in advance Tim
