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Hi everyone
After being out of the loop for 2 years odd I have decided (and my wife has allowed me) to do a system rebuild and relaunch myself into desktop land rather than living off my laptop and netbook.
I have a processor (AMD phenom II black edition with a meaty OCZ fan) that I am happy with and a graphics card (Sapphire radion HD 5850) that is enough for my gaming needs but beyond this I want to do a rebuild.
So all in all I need:
- Case
- Motherboard
- Power supply
- Extra fans
- RAM
- HDDs
(Oh I also have a blu-ray drive)
Case cooling due to a limited space envelope (big enough for an ATX case but not a massive gaming case or crazy externals like a up and over front panel) will have to be front/back and as a point of preference I would like to be able to have a hardware switch between HDDs (have win 7 and am working on a slackware build so dual boot would be awesome via a HW switch). I would also be pointless to have lightings due to the PC being enclosed in an aluminium caddy (with door front and open back)
Any help or recommendations would be awesome as I am rediscovering desktop after faaaar too long.
*edit* budget is £400 to £500 and yes I have monitor, speakers, keyboard, mouse, printer, bamboo pad and every other accessory necessary and not.
After being out of the loop for 2 years odd I have decided (and my wife has allowed me) to do a system rebuild and relaunch myself into desktop land rather than living off my laptop and netbook.
I have a processor (AMD phenom II black edition with a meaty OCZ fan) that I am happy with and a graphics card (Sapphire radion HD 5850) that is enough for my gaming needs but beyond this I want to do a rebuild.
So all in all I need:
- Case
- Motherboard
- Power supply
- Extra fans
- RAM
- HDDs
(Oh I also have a blu-ray drive)
Case cooling due to a limited space envelope (big enough for an ATX case but not a massive gaming case or crazy externals like a up and over front panel) will have to be front/back and as a point of preference I would like to be able to have a hardware switch between HDDs (have win 7 and am working on a slackware build so dual boot would be awesome via a HW switch). I would also be pointless to have lightings due to the PC being enclosed in an aluminium caddy (with door front and open back)
Any help or recommendations would be awesome as I am rediscovering desktop after faaaar too long.
*edit* budget is £400 to £500 and yes I have monitor, speakers, keyboard, mouse, printer, bamboo pad and every other accessory necessary and not.
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