Hello All,
That time has come to rebuild. I will be striping the very old monster who back in its hay days "2008" was a very fast machine of some of its components.
Those interested I currently use the XPS 630i from Dell which I built on their site. This monster has done very well until now.
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NEW BUILD
*** Parts removed from old machine *******
1 X PSU 750W from Old Machine
1 X Geforce EVGA 460 (GPU) - Recently bought due to damage card "fairly current"
1 X Hard Drive 2 - 320GB Sata II
2 X DVD Rewrite Drives
Tools;
Arctic Thermal paste
Cable ties
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**** additions for new build ****
1 X Intel Core i7-3770 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) £239.99
1 X Silverstone Tech. Silver Aluminium Tower Computer Case £114.98
1 X OCZ Technology 128GB Vertex 4 SSD - Solid State Drive - Hard Drive 1 £88.99
1 X Corsair Memory XMS3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600) CAS 11-11-11-30 Dual Channel £77.99
1 X Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP4-TH Motherboard - Link not accurate! Its the same modeltype £156.92
2 X Noctua NF-R8 PWM 80mm Cooling Fan £13.99
1 X Arctic Cooling Freezer Xtreme Rev.2 High Performance Quiet CPU Cooler £Purchased already
Total = 804.86
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So what do you think about the specification? Machine to be used for a small virtualization lab "VM etc, media/digital painting "Photoshop and gaming.
My budget is £650 so have to cut a few things out but I really don't want too especially with that CPU and MOBO- sweeetttttt. There is no point upgrading and not getting an Ivy bridge.
Any advise would be appreciated
That time has come to rebuild. I will be striping the very old monster who back in its hay days "2008" was a very fast machine of some of its components.
Those interested I currently use the XPS 630i from Dell which I built on their site. This monster has done very well until now.
****************************
NEW BUILD
*** Parts removed from old machine *******
1 X PSU 750W from Old Machine
1 X Geforce EVGA 460 (GPU) - Recently bought due to damage card "fairly current"
1 X Hard Drive 2 - 320GB Sata II
2 X DVD Rewrite Drives
Tools;
Arctic Thermal paste
Cable ties
********************************
**** additions for new build ****
1 X Intel Core i7-3770 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) £239.99
1 X Silverstone Tech. Silver Aluminium Tower Computer Case £114.98
1 X OCZ Technology 128GB Vertex 4 SSD - Solid State Drive - Hard Drive 1 £88.99
1 X Corsair Memory XMS3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600) CAS 11-11-11-30 Dual Channel £77.99
1 X Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP4-TH Motherboard - Link not accurate! Its the same modeltype £156.92
2 X Noctua NF-R8 PWM 80mm Cooling Fan £13.99
1 X Arctic Cooling Freezer Xtreme Rev.2 High Performance Quiet CPU Cooler £Purchased already
Total = 804.86
****************************
So what do you think about the specification? Machine to be used for a small virtualization lab "VM etc, media/digital painting "Photoshop and gaming.
My budget is £650 so have to cut a few things out but I really don't want too especially with that CPU and MOBO- sweeetttttt. There is no point upgrading and not getting an Ivy bridge.
Any advise would be appreciated
It should be 120mm. Same brand by the way.