I'm going to upgrade in the next month so I just wanted initial thoughts on what I had planned:
I'm working to a budget of about £600 (this comes in at £650ish). The only thing staying from my previous machine is the case and hard drives.
Just a few questions:
1) This will all fit easily in a Lian Li PC60? It is the older model with 2 intake fans on the front if that makes any difference
2) Enough power for another 4 HDDs (750GB, 200GB, 2 * 320GB)?
3) My thinking with the WD is that I want a new small HDD to use as main partition, gone for the smallest with a 16mb cache, I went raid edition because it has longer warranty and slightly better seek time for virtually no difference in cost. Sound ok?
4) Any eta on 8800GT stock - I mean sensible levels so the price drops a bit. Currently £180 for this is a little too much. Would I notice a major difference if I got the 3870? I don't actually game all that much, too busy, but I would like to have all the eye candy when I do - plus I only game at 1280*1024. Looking at the 3870 benchmarks it does seem to struggle to get 60fps in newer games even at this res. Perhaps I misread them? Though 3870s lower power is slightly attractive if it is going to be idle a lot.
Thanks for any help,
n.b. as far as overclocking, I like to tinker a little but nothing major. I would buy a new HSF before going down this road.
I'm working to a budget of about £600 (this comes in at £650ish). The only thing staying from my previous machine is the case and hard drives.
Just a few questions:
1) This will all fit easily in a Lian Li PC60? It is the older model with 2 intake fans on the front if that makes any difference
2) Enough power for another 4 HDDs (750GB, 200GB, 2 * 320GB)?
3) My thinking with the WD is that I want a new small HDD to use as main partition, gone for the smallest with a 16mb cache, I went raid edition because it has longer warranty and slightly better seek time for virtually no difference in cost. Sound ok?
4) Any eta on 8800GT stock - I mean sensible levels so the price drops a bit. Currently £180 for this is a little too much. Would I notice a major difference if I got the 3870? I don't actually game all that much, too busy, but I would like to have all the eye candy when I do - plus I only game at 1280*1024. Looking at the 3870 benchmarks it does seem to struggle to get 60fps in newer games even at this res. Perhaps I misread them? Though 3870s lower power is slightly attractive if it is going to be idle a lot.
Thanks for any help,
n.b. as far as overclocking, I like to tinker a little but nothing major. I would buy a new HSF before going down this road.
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