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I decided that as i spend so many hours on this machine that it makes sense to up the budget from £500
I decided to go quad core which would leave me with the q9550 but ive decided to spend the extra £100 and go for corei7
Main reasons being speed with multithreaded apps, and future proofing as in 12 months i can just buy a faster chip.
i decided on a £900 budget as this would enable me to upgrade to a better psu, upgrade my case, and a few other things.
Current spec:
Core i7 920 do stepping £216
asus p6t motherboard £170
6gb ocz gold £63
asus 1gb 4870 dark knight (on offer) £120
corsair 650watt psu (on offer) £74
antec 300 case £45
zalman silent 120mm fan £7
pioneer 22x dvd rw £17
fenrir cpu cooler £34
sammy spinpoint 320gb £39
now total cost is £800 delivered which gives me about 100-200 to spend on a monitor, and i was thinking of getting the dell 22" ultrasharp at £200
This means in total ive pretty much doubled my budget, but to me it makes sense as im on this pc for about 8 hours min a day, and up to 16 hours a day on busy weeks where i have tight deadlines etc.
Should i change anything in this build?
I went with a lower spec hdd to save me some cash as im thinking when i have to buy windows 7 at the end of the year i could upgrade to ssd at the same time then use the 320gb as a backup.
now even though its on offer is it worth me spending the extra on the 1gb graphics even though i dont really play games? i mianly work in 2d apps like cs4 with maybe the odd bit of gaming...
my origional plan was this one :
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-127-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=938
sorry for all the questions etc, i just want to make sure i get it all right this time!
I decided to go quad core which would leave me with the q9550 but ive decided to spend the extra £100 and go for corei7
Main reasons being speed with multithreaded apps, and future proofing as in 12 months i can just buy a faster chip.
i decided on a £900 budget as this would enable me to upgrade to a better psu, upgrade my case, and a few other things.
Current spec:
Core i7 920 do stepping £216
asus p6t motherboard £170
6gb ocz gold £63
asus 1gb 4870 dark knight (on offer) £120
corsair 650watt psu (on offer) £74
antec 300 case £45
zalman silent 120mm fan £7
pioneer 22x dvd rw £17
fenrir cpu cooler £34
sammy spinpoint 320gb £39
now total cost is £800 delivered which gives me about 100-200 to spend on a monitor, and i was thinking of getting the dell 22" ultrasharp at £200
This means in total ive pretty much doubled my budget, but to me it makes sense as im on this pc for about 8 hours min a day, and up to 16 hours a day on busy weeks where i have tight deadlines etc.
Should i change anything in this build?
I went with a lower spec hdd to save me some cash as im thinking when i have to buy windows 7 at the end of the year i could upgrade to ssd at the same time then use the 320gb as a backup.
now even though its on offer is it worth me spending the extra on the 1gb graphics even though i dont really play games? i mianly work in 2d apps like cs4 with maybe the odd bit of gaming...
my origional plan was this one :
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-127-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=938
sorry for all the questions etc, i just want to make sure i get it all right this time!
