Time for an upgrade, advice needed please.

[Mad Professor]

My current system is now starting to get on abit, it still copes fine with day to day use, but I have now started working with full HD 1080 videos, doing cad work, and the system does now bog down, so I think it's about time for an upgrade.

I am looking to upgrade to the i7 Sandy Bridge, something like the 2600K.

I know that intel chipset motherboards for the sandy bridge have issues with the SATA-II controller but not the SATA-III, I am looking at only running two hard drives, plus blu-ray combo drive.

Here are my current system details.
XFX 850W PSU.
Intel Quad-Core Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz (Revision G0).
Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler.
XFX 680i SLI Motherboard, Revision A2, (Latest XFX Bios P33).
2x1GB Corsair CM2X1024-6400C4 DDR2 800Mhz Memory.
XFX nvidia GeForce 9600GSO 384MB.
Seagate ST3200827AS.
Seagate ST3500320AS.
WDC WD15EARS-00Z5B1.
Samsung SH-B083L.
Running Windows 7 Home 64-Bit.


My seagate drives are quite old and slow, so was thinking about replacing them with something like the WDC Black SATA-III Drives, and my current WDC green to be put into my NAS Unit.

Hard drive space it not a big issue as all my saved videos, cad work, ect are all saved to my NAS unit, so 1-2TB drive should be fine.

I am not looking a building or needing a raid array.

I don't need SLI or X-Fire.

So any advice you can give me would be grate.

Thanks for your time.

Best Regards.

 

[Mad Professor]

I don't really want to start wasting my time and money adding to my current system, I think it would be better spending the money upgrading.

I would like to spend as little cash as possible, I would say £500-600 max, before selling my current parts on.

 

[Mad Professor]

The new computer will be mostly used for editing HD 1080 videos, 3D Cad work (SolidWorks), and yes some game playing.

I do want to build the new system around the 2600K processor.

Can you please recommend a good motherboard and memory suited for the 2600K processor, and my needs, that can also be easily overclocked if needed.

Thanks for your time.

 

[Mad Professor]

My computer knowhow is so outdated, eveything has moved on so quick since I built my Q6600, I can no longer tell a good egg from a bad egg.

Memory wise I think your right, best to start off at 8GB and go from there.

I am more an Nvidia guy my self, I am sure I also read somewhere that SolidWorks supports cuda cores.

I now just need to desided on motherboard and ram.

I have no idea if the motherboard and ram that "kristmace" said is good or bad.

I will keep my current video card, and upgrade that once I have upgraded my current system and sold the old parts.

I have only confirmed two parts on my list so far.

Processor - Intel Core i7 2600K.
Motherboard -
Memory -
Hard Drive - WD Caviar Black 1 TB WD1002FAEX.

 

[Mad Professor]

I was indeed looking at the 2600K OEM, as for cooler, I am hoping that my Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler will fit.

I have to had problems with Gigabyte in the past with badcaps, but that was a long time ago.

How does the Asus P8P67 Intel P67 sound?