Ill be having about £800 quid soon to spend on hardware so i need some advice regards intel setups. Im a techie by trade but ill admit im out of the loop regarding intel setups.
In my work i dont do much system building anymore so i dont have a wide range of gear to tinker with like i used to a few years back. My current system is a 939 x2 4400+ with 2 gig of ram and a 8800GT.
Ive just bought some nice fast large samsung SATA drives so im sorted hard drive wise. Im also intending on keeping the GT for now, until the new cards come out and we see how they perform and what prices they go for. My case is also being kept as its big enough and nice enough to do me for a long time yet.
My power supply is a Tagan 480watt ( i think ) but ill be keeping the old parts and making a backup system for the girlfriend. I have a spare 7800gtx for that as well
So really im after a new mainboard, cpu and ram. I have a Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler so i assume this will do for now. Temps in the case are very low due to lots of room and large slow speed fans blowing unhindered right over the cooler and out the back.
I will also want a SATA optical drive but those are cheap anyway so really im after a good quality STABLE and hastle free intel CPU MB and RAM combo.
I can stretch to DDR3 ram if its going to be worth keeping for the future ( doubtful ) and i want a minimum of 4GB of ram with upgrade possibilty to 8GB. So that means 2x2gb sticks.
The machine is used for general use as well as gaming with Age of Conan being the latest passtime!
I have a dell 20" widescreen which does me fine so gaming is at 1650x1050. I also would like a good vista 64 compatable sound solution, preferably not onboard unless its very good.
I already have an unused oem vista business ( 64 ) ready for this machine so thats covered.
Im of course considering the q6600 chip but i believe there are new intel cpus and chipsets on the way? should i wait for them to appear or is it another case of an evolutionary step rather than revolutionary with them?
Im only asking here as quite frankly there is a bewildering array of chipsets and motherboards/cpu's now and its hard to decide which is best for stability and reliability.
Spec away!
/thanks
In my work i dont do much system building anymore so i dont have a wide range of gear to tinker with like i used to a few years back. My current system is a 939 x2 4400+ with 2 gig of ram and a 8800GT.
Ive just bought some nice fast large samsung SATA drives so im sorted hard drive wise. Im also intending on keeping the GT for now, until the new cards come out and we see how they perform and what prices they go for. My case is also being kept as its big enough and nice enough to do me for a long time yet.
My power supply is a Tagan 480watt ( i think ) but ill be keeping the old parts and making a backup system for the girlfriend. I have a spare 7800gtx for that as well
So really im after a new mainboard, cpu and ram. I have a Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler so i assume this will do for now. Temps in the case are very low due to lots of room and large slow speed fans blowing unhindered right over the cooler and out the back.
I will also want a SATA optical drive but those are cheap anyway so really im after a good quality STABLE and hastle free intel CPU MB and RAM combo.
I can stretch to DDR3 ram if its going to be worth keeping for the future ( doubtful ) and i want a minimum of 4GB of ram with upgrade possibilty to 8GB. So that means 2x2gb sticks.
The machine is used for general use as well as gaming with Age of Conan being the latest passtime!
I have a dell 20" widescreen which does me fine so gaming is at 1650x1050. I also would like a good vista 64 compatable sound solution, preferably not onboard unless its very good.
I already have an unused oem vista business ( 64 ) ready for this machine so thats covered.
Im of course considering the q6600 chip but i believe there are new intel cpus and chipsets on the way? should i wait for them to appear or is it another case of an evolutionary step rather than revolutionary with them?
Im only asking here as quite frankly there is a bewildering array of chipsets and motherboards/cpu's now and its hard to decide which is best for stability and reliability.
Spec away!
/thanks
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