Hello everyone,
I am looking to upgrade from my current setup - an aging i7 920 with 12 GB RAM / AMD 4670 HD. My PC has served me well over the past 4 years but lately I have noticed that it lags quite a bit with my different coding tools like PHPstorm open.
I am a systems developer and I spend around 80% of my time on coding (.NET on Visual Studio or PHP on Jetbrains PHPStorm) and running multiple VMs. I play games quite a bit but I am not obsessed with running them at the highest quality - as long as they run smoothly and I can play through them I am happy.I am also very unlikely to every overclock anything. I connect to my router using powerline adapters so a minimal wifi setup would do.
I do however run 3+ monitors all the time. Accessibility to ports on the front panel is also important, so is the number of USB 3.0 ports. And I would very much like a quiet PC.
I have two recently purchased SSD drives of 256 GB that I would like to reuse along with 3 1 TB SATA hard drives which have my data backups.
I don't have a fixed budget but obviously I would like to keep the costs to a minimum. Essentially I am looking for the entire base unit minus the hard drives (I have DDR3 triple channel 667 memory but I am told I cannot reuse these?). I would be extremely grateful for any advice on what CPU/Mobo/RAM combination would work best for me.along with a mid range video card that would allow me to play most (if not all) modern PC games at decent quality. I would further welcome advice on PC Cases and power supplies. I know to an extent this is dependant on personal preferences, but like I mentioned having a quiet PC is somewhat important to me. I quite like a minimalist approach and in the past I loved my Antec P180. I was learning towards Fractal R4 but I have read that it has issues with its noise control.
Once again, I would be extremely grateful for any advice and guidance.
Regards
Alex
I am looking to upgrade from my current setup - an aging i7 920 with 12 GB RAM / AMD 4670 HD. My PC has served me well over the past 4 years but lately I have noticed that it lags quite a bit with my different coding tools like PHPstorm open.
I am a systems developer and I spend around 80% of my time on coding (.NET on Visual Studio or PHP on Jetbrains PHPStorm) and running multiple VMs. I play games quite a bit but I am not obsessed with running them at the highest quality - as long as they run smoothly and I can play through them I am happy.I am also very unlikely to every overclock anything. I connect to my router using powerline adapters so a minimal wifi setup would do.
I do however run 3+ monitors all the time. Accessibility to ports on the front panel is also important, so is the number of USB 3.0 ports. And I would very much like a quiet PC.
I have two recently purchased SSD drives of 256 GB that I would like to reuse along with 3 1 TB SATA hard drives which have my data backups.
I don't have a fixed budget but obviously I would like to keep the costs to a minimum. Essentially I am looking for the entire base unit minus the hard drives (I have DDR3 triple channel 667 memory but I am told I cannot reuse these?). I would be extremely grateful for any advice on what CPU/Mobo/RAM combination would work best for me.along with a mid range video card that would allow me to play most (if not all) modern PC games at decent quality. I would further welcome advice on PC Cases and power supplies. I know to an extent this is dependant on personal preferences, but like I mentioned having a quiet PC is somewhat important to me. I quite like a minimalist approach and in the past I loved my Antec P180. I was learning towards Fractal R4 but I have read that it has issues with its noise control.
Once again, I would be extremely grateful for any advice and guidance.
Regards
Alex
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