Spec help

K.C. Leblanc · 4 Aug 2011 at 10:41

Hi guys,

I need to upgrade my Athlon 64 3700+, it's pants.

So far I've come up with this.

PC will be used for photo and a bit of video editing.

I don't actually need a drive that big (I have other drives), I'm wondering if a cheap SSD or Hybrid drive might be a good idea.

stulid · 4 Aug 2011 at 10:42

Got a graphics card for this? PSU?

K.C. Leblanc · 4 Aug 2011 at 10:48

stulid said:
Got a graphics card for this? PSU?

Yep. Don't worry it's newer then the existing motherboard.

stulid · 4 Aug 2011 at 10:50

It was mainly the fact that the board doesnt have display outputs if you were wanting to use the onboard gpu, so a discrete card is necessary.

stulid · 4 Aug 2011 at 11:05

K.C. Leblanc said:
I don't actually need a drive that big (I have other drives), I'm wondering if a cheap SSD or Hybrid drive might be a good idea.

The board doesnt have SATA 6gb/sec, so a SSD will be slowed up.

This does though - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=mb-172-ms&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1907

http://www.msi.com/product/mb/h67ma-e35.html

And this has SATA 6gb/sec and USB3.0 - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-448-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1906

K.C. Leblanc · 4 Aug 2011 at 12:15

stulid said:
And this has SATA 6gb/sec and USB3.0 - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-448-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1906

Brilliant stuff, much better board.