Soldato
- Joined
- 11 Oct 2007
- Posts
- 2,597
I really have been out of the game for a while but the upgrade bug is nipping at my heels but it will be a while until I have the cash in place. I would however love to see what I could get at the moment for no more than £600 budget and to know if I'd really see much improvement which I'm sure I would. An AMD and Intel spec would be interesting to look at and compare.
Primary concern is gaming.
Mobo is probably my biggest concern. 8 sata ports, one IDE channel would be a bonus to save me buying an optical drive I'll only ever use for instal. PCIE, enough for 2 double height gfx and a 3rd full PCIE for a PCIE SSD which I note are going beyond the x1 format now. A Mobo that boots natively from PCIE without some kind of bootloader would be a must, if they exist yet? A decent native Raid controler would be desirable. Is intel still notably better in SATA performance? specifically for SSD performance.
RAM 16gb on two sticks of 8gb so I can upgrade if I need to in the future, 8gb doesn't cut it anymore for my personal usage.
CPU, very torn here AMD fanboy but intel just seem to be ahead of the game but I'm really out of touch, is it worth considering any AMD systems?
A red theme on components would be very desirable, only I would see it though so it's not a necessity.
Emerging technology and features over the next year would be nice to know about as realistically that's when I'll be upgrading, but I'd like an idea of what I can get now.
I'll be getting a few 5ish TB HDDs before all this as that's a pressing upgrade, are the WD Greens still as desirable or are there better options? These will only ever be for multimedia.
I have a background in IT so no need to dumb things down to much, I'm just very out of touch as my priorities have been elsewhere for the past few years.
Primary concern is gaming.
Mobo is probably my biggest concern. 8 sata ports, one IDE channel would be a bonus to save me buying an optical drive I'll only ever use for instal. PCIE, enough for 2 double height gfx and a 3rd full PCIE for a PCIE SSD which I note are going beyond the x1 format now. A Mobo that boots natively from PCIE without some kind of bootloader would be a must, if they exist yet? A decent native Raid controler would be desirable. Is intel still notably better in SATA performance? specifically for SSD performance.
RAM 16gb on two sticks of 8gb so I can upgrade if I need to in the future, 8gb doesn't cut it anymore for my personal usage.
CPU, very torn here AMD fanboy but intel just seem to be ahead of the game but I'm really out of touch, is it worth considering any AMD systems?
A red theme on components would be very desirable, only I would see it though so it's not a necessity.
Emerging technology and features over the next year would be nice to know about as realistically that's when I'll be upgrading, but I'd like an idea of what I can get now.
I'll be getting a few 5ish TB HDDs before all this as that's a pressing upgrade, are the WD Greens still as desirable or are there better options? These will only ever be for multimedia.
I have a background in IT so no need to dumb things down to much, I'm just very out of touch as my priorities have been elsewhere for the past few years.
