In the next week or two I shall be looking to upgrade my machine.
I am a little out of touch with the latest offerings
Mobo, CPU, RAM and Graphics Card.
I think I shall go for the 8800GTX. Am I right in thinking there are some new cheaper cards which do almost the same job for much less? GTS?
As for the other items; well I am a fan of ASUS so I am happy to go with an ASUS Motherboard. I am currently running 2 x 10000 RPM Raptors in a RAID1 array and 2 other non-raided SATA drives. I'd like the new board to be able to offer the same configuration.
I would like at least 2Gb RAM and have always preferred decent Corsair TwinX to enable Dual Channel operation.
As for the CPU; well I'd like to avoid the very latest processor(s) as they're immensely expensive. Something just below that spec would be ideal.
In the past I have tended towards AMD as they've always been slightly cheaper than Intel but is it time for a change?
I don't really have a budget but don't want to go silly.
£350 - £450 excluding the graphics card? Something like that I guess.
Anyway please may I ask for help and advice on which items would give me the best performance?
What would be your recommendations?
Many thanks for any guidance
I am a little out of touch with the latest offerings
Mobo, CPU, RAM and Graphics Card.
I think I shall go for the 8800GTX. Am I right in thinking there are some new cheaper cards which do almost the same job for much less? GTS?
As for the other items; well I am a fan of ASUS so I am happy to go with an ASUS Motherboard. I am currently running 2 x 10000 RPM Raptors in a RAID1 array and 2 other non-raided SATA drives. I'd like the new board to be able to offer the same configuration.
I would like at least 2Gb RAM and have always preferred decent Corsair TwinX to enable Dual Channel operation.
As for the CPU; well I'd like to avoid the very latest processor(s) as they're immensely expensive. Something just below that spec would be ideal.
In the past I have tended towards AMD as they've always been slightly cheaper than Intel but is it time for a change?
I don't really have a budget but don't want to go silly.
£350 - £450 excluding the graphics card? Something like that I guess.
Anyway please may I ask for help and advice on which items would give me the best performance?
What would be your recommendations?
Many thanks for any guidance