Hey everyone well i'm looking to upgrade from my 8 yr old p4, its done its job.
been looking at all the new tech and its enough to boil your brain for stew in your skull... so i've narrowed down the items I find most important to me and ask some opinions on parts i’m not quite sure of.
I’m a multi-taker / gamer. tend to game while debugging and running visual c++ while surfing the web, dual screen of course. and I don’t plan to over clock right away but I want to. plan on something between $1500 and $2000 i’m kinda about 1500 now so maybe i can upgrade some peripherals, if there is nothing I want to change.
processor; core 2 quad q6600 Kentsfield go stepping; I multi task so I think its my best bet.
Processor Cooler: Zalman CNPS9700LEDw; can never be to cool!
mother board; asus P5E (x38,ddr2); its ready for a cheap 45nm perrilyn in a year when their cheap
memory; ddr2 pc1200, new egg states standard? so I have Kingston Hyper 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1200 (PC2 9600) , I’m really not sure if that’s my best memory choice. might do 4gb and vista 64.
hard drive; segate barracuda 7200.11 500gb; its hard to decipher all the charts on hard drive speed but i’m looking for a fast hard drive also. all the sata hard drives are cheap to me I just want a speedy one.
video; asus8800GT or gts; I cant see ever doing crossfire, when the time comes ill get one better card.
DVD burn; cheap whatever
os; vista 32 or 64 depending on mem choice
power supply; ABS Tagan BZ Series BZ700 ATX12V / EPS12V 700W Patent Piperock Modular Power Supply; haven’t looked up the rating on this yet but modular and looks nice,
case; this is gonna be a while yet. want something that look kick az might build it myself never know....
so I guess I would like confirmation on my hard drive choice for speed, for gaming. my power supply. and maybe the memory(speed), vista 32 w/t 2gb or vista 64 w/t 4 gb.. anything I miss.... rate my build.. thanks for listing to wkrp
been looking at all the new tech and its enough to boil your brain for stew in your skull... so i've narrowed down the items I find most important to me and ask some opinions on parts i’m not quite sure of.
I’m a multi-taker / gamer. tend to game while debugging and running visual c++ while surfing the web, dual screen of course. and I don’t plan to over clock right away but I want to. plan on something between $1500 and $2000 i’m kinda about 1500 now so maybe i can upgrade some peripherals, if there is nothing I want to change.
processor; core 2 quad q6600 Kentsfield go stepping; I multi task so I think its my best bet.
Processor Cooler: Zalman CNPS9700LEDw; can never be to cool!
mother board; asus P5E (x38,ddr2); its ready for a cheap 45nm perrilyn in a year when their cheap
memory; ddr2 pc1200, new egg states standard? so I have Kingston Hyper 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1200 (PC2 9600) , I’m really not sure if that’s my best memory choice. might do 4gb and vista 64.
hard drive; segate barracuda 7200.11 500gb; its hard to decipher all the charts on hard drive speed but i’m looking for a fast hard drive also. all the sata hard drives are cheap to me I just want a speedy one.
video; asus8800GT or gts; I cant see ever doing crossfire, when the time comes ill get one better card.
DVD burn; cheap whatever
os; vista 32 or 64 depending on mem choice
power supply; ABS Tagan BZ Series BZ700 ATX12V / EPS12V 700W Patent Piperock Modular Power Supply; haven’t looked up the rating on this yet but modular and looks nice,
case; this is gonna be a while yet. want something that look kick az might build it myself never know....
so I guess I would like confirmation on my hard drive choice for speed, for gaming. my power supply. and maybe the memory(speed), vista 32 w/t 2gb or vista 64 w/t 4 gb.. anything I miss.... rate my build.. thanks for listing to wkrp