Been out of the game for a long time, do IT for a living, but pay little attention to CPUs, RAM and so forth these days. Look after HP Proliant kit, so that's as far as it goes.
What I do know is that I'm looking for a new motherboard, CPU and RAM in order to do some Windows 2012 testing and of course the normal Windows 7/8 use. I do have some games, but haven't re-installed steam and that was circa 18 months ago!
Don't need disks as I have a 120GB SSD and a pair of 1TB drives mirrored. Also got a stack of 320GB disks sat in the cupboard (have been for 18 months), I don't sell disks! Keep meaning to get a NAS and fit them.
Current unit is
Intel Q9550 not o/c with a Noctua HSF
4GB RAM
Assus P5Q Pro
ATI Radeon 5870 graphics card.
Coolermaster silenco case.
I suppose in a nutshell, Windows 8 (unfortunately) for hyper-v and then grunt to test.
I have a HP 6715b with SSD and Windows 7 too, so hence the consideration for Windows 8.
What I do know is that I'm looking for a new motherboard, CPU and RAM in order to do some Windows 2012 testing and of course the normal Windows 7/8 use. I do have some games, but haven't re-installed steam and that was circa 18 months ago!
Don't need disks as I have a 120GB SSD and a pair of 1TB drives mirrored. Also got a stack of 320GB disks sat in the cupboard (have been for 18 months), I don't sell disks! Keep meaning to get a NAS and fit them.
Current unit is
Intel Q9550 not o/c with a Noctua HSF
4GB RAM
Assus P5Q Pro
ATI Radeon 5870 graphics card.
Coolermaster silenco case.
I suppose in a nutshell, Windows 8 (unfortunately) for hyper-v and then grunt to test.
I have a HP 6715b with SSD and Windows 7 too, so hence the consideration for Windows 8.
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