Thank you for any help you can give. (Please scroll down to the bold bit for the request).
I bought my first set up 7 years ago using the advice from this forum and it served me brilliantly. Motherboard has recently given up the ghost so I'm saving as much as possible to start over.
Reasons for change
I've recently left an organisation where I made myself a glutton for punishment and didn't delegate anything so in 2011 chose an i7 2600k, GTX, 32GB of RAM and 4 screens to manage everything . I should have just been more organised and wouldn't have needed the hyperthreading (let alone avoiding driving my family mad).
Requirements
So now calming down from 7 years of crazy and need a setup for:
- family
- designing posters
- possibly some music recording
- possibly some CAD/ 3D printing work
Resources
I have gutted my i7 2600k tower and ditched my old screens which has left me with:
GPUs:
- Nvida GeForce GTX
N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II/OC
- EVGA GeForce GT 630
RAM:
- 4x Corsair Vengeance® — 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9)
SSDs:
- COZ Agility 3 Sata III, 120GB, 2.5inch
- Crucial M500 Sata 6Gb/s SED 240GB, 2.5 inch
HD:
Seagate Barracuda 7200 1TB
Plus a DVD RW drive.
Monitor:
My wife has just bought a Samsung - C27F591 Full HD 27" Curved LED Monitor. We would have liked to go for a 3440 x 1440 monitor for doing artistic design type work, but we can't afford it at the moment (looking for white or silver).
Limitations:
Happy to buy from anywhere. We live in South East UK. Wherever is good - online or high street.
Budget is £500 for the tower, chip and PSI. I'm hoping it will work out to more like £300.
Need to build it quite quickly....within a week.
Happy to put all components together myself. I'm trying to save as much money as possible but want to attempt to future proof to some extent.
So the question is:
Based on the above, what tower, PSI and motherboard/chip do I need to make as much use as possible out of all components, hence saving money, but at the same time having a fast, reliable and fairly future proof setup.
I don't have the eons of time to the kind of research I would like to/did 7yrs ago, e.g. saved money on going Sandy bridge instead of Ivy Bridge.
(Also....sometimes wish I was back using Windows 7, as W10 seems to not only want to trip me up, but pretends that it's been doing it like that for years, and then argues that it's actually helping me and I should know better lol. Not sure what opinions are on that - I might be being childish, but if it saves money and there's no major reason against going back then great.)
Thanks again, and apologies for any rookie errors.
(Edited to add budget and finish sentences)
I bought my first set up 7 years ago using the advice from this forum and it served me brilliantly. Motherboard has recently given up the ghost so I'm saving as much as possible to start over.
Reasons for change
I've recently left an organisation where I made myself a glutton for punishment and didn't delegate anything so in 2011 chose an i7 2600k, GTX, 32GB of RAM and 4 screens to manage everything . I should have just been more organised and wouldn't have needed the hyperthreading (let alone avoiding driving my family mad).
Requirements
So now calming down from 7 years of crazy and need a setup for:
- family
- designing posters
- possibly some music recording
- possibly some CAD/ 3D printing work
Resources
I have gutted my i7 2600k tower and ditched my old screens which has left me with:
GPUs:
- Nvida GeForce GTX
N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II/OC
- EVGA GeForce GT 630
RAM:
- 4x Corsair Vengeance® — 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9)
SSDs:
- COZ Agility 3 Sata III, 120GB, 2.5inch
- Crucial M500 Sata 6Gb/s SED 240GB, 2.5 inch
HD:
Seagate Barracuda 7200 1TB
Plus a DVD RW drive.
Monitor:
My wife has just bought a Samsung - C27F591 Full HD 27" Curved LED Monitor. We would have liked to go for a 3440 x 1440 monitor for doing artistic design type work, but we can't afford it at the moment (looking for white or silver).
Limitations:
Happy to buy from anywhere. We live in South East UK. Wherever is good - online or high street.
Budget is £500 for the tower, chip and PSI. I'm hoping it will work out to more like £300.
Need to build it quite quickly....within a week.
Happy to put all components together myself. I'm trying to save as much money as possible but want to attempt to future proof to some extent.
So the question is:
Based on the above, what tower, PSI and motherboard/chip do I need to make as much use as possible out of all components, hence saving money, but at the same time having a fast, reliable and fairly future proof setup.
I don't have the eons of time to the kind of research I would like to/did 7yrs ago, e.g. saved money on going Sandy bridge instead of Ivy Bridge.
(Also....sometimes wish I was back using Windows 7, as W10 seems to not only want to trip me up, but pretends that it's been doing it like that for years, and then argues that it's actually helping me and I should know better lol. Not sure what opinions are on that - I might be being childish, but if it saves money and there's no major reason against going back then great.)
Thanks again, and apologies for any rookie errors.
(Edited to add budget and finish sentences)
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