Hi all. Firstly sorry my first post is a please help me post, but I've been recommended to try these forums as you guys are apparently the best in the business to ask.
(disregard my blatant attempt of sucking up if you wish
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I have an old Dell p4 3ghz which I got brand new when it was fresh out on the market nearly 7 years ago, and my poor old machine now is finally giving up the ghost. Its time to respectfully chuck it on the skip and get a new toy.
I'm playing with a round grand, no need for an OS as of yet as I'm going to take advantage of windows 7 being free for another 8 months.
Really I'm looking to get the best for my budget (which is to include a cheapy 22-24" monitor) and hopefully run it in to the ground like I have done my old machine so hopefully get 5 years out of it
So my key points I guess are:
No OS (using W7)
No need for keyboard/speakers/mouse
A future proof socket (no such thing I know but you get what I mean)
22-24" monitor
Smallish case but quiet if possible
Playing a few games (sold my xbox for a Wii so want a machine that I can sit down and play "normal" games on), a bit of photography, a bit of adobe photoshop, some video editing and some 3d rendering. Also do website design and coding but this needs no power at all.
Possible upgradability for another graphics card, may upgrade to a better optical drive later and possibility of getting a more spacious case after I sort my office out a bit.
Any suggestions or comments, anything a bit OTT or anything not quite good enough, I've done a bit of research and the 920 on that board with that ram should be good to clock to 4gz? I'm not looking at doing any mad overclocking but would like to tweak a little to get the best performance that I can.
Thanks
(disregard my blatant attempt of sucking up if you wish
)I have an old Dell p4 3ghz which I got brand new when it was fresh out on the market nearly 7 years ago, and my poor old machine now is finally giving up the ghost. Its time to respectfully chuck it on the skip and get a new toy.
I'm playing with a round grand, no need for an OS as of yet as I'm going to take advantage of windows 7 being free for another 8 months.
Really I'm looking to get the best for my budget (which is to include a cheapy 22-24" monitor) and hopefully run it in to the ground like I have done my old machine so hopefully get 5 years out of it
So my key points I guess are:
No OS (using W7)
No need for keyboard/speakers/mouse
A future proof socket (no such thing I know but you get what I mean)
22-24" monitor
Smallish case but quiet if possible
Playing a few games (sold my xbox for a Wii so want a machine that I can sit down and play "normal" games on), a bit of photography, a bit of adobe photoshop, some video editing and some 3d rendering. Also do website design and coding but this needs no power at all.
Possible upgradability for another graphics card, may upgrade to a better optical drive later and possibility of getting a more spacious case after I sort my office out a bit.
Any suggestions or comments, anything a bit OTT or anything not quite good enough, I've done a bit of research and the 920 on that board with that ram should be good to clock to 4gz? I'm not looking at doing any mad overclocking but would like to tweak a little to get the best performance that I can.
Thanks
