I read through the following thread as I was whipping up a shopping list for a new system:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/248273-31-building-system
And got some very nice insight into components so thank you all very much for that and your willlingness to share your knowledge and experience.
OK so before I found the forums and started reading this is what I had in mind:
ASUS P5E LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz LGA 775 65W
Wintec AMPO 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
XFX PVT84JUSD4 GeForce 8600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI
Seagate ST3400320AS 400GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Cooler Master RR-CCH-L9U1-GP 92mm Hyper TX2 CPU Cooler - Retail
FSP Group AX500-PN ATX2.2 500W Power Supply - Retail
Cooler Master Stacker RC-832-KKN1-GP Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower
But after reading the abovereferenced thread I started thinking and came up with:
GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 65W
Wintec AMPO 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
XFX PVT84JUSD4 GeForce 8600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI
2 - Seagate ST3400320AS 400GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Cooler Master RR-CCH-L9U1-GP 92mm Hyper TX2 CPU Cooler - Retail
FSP Group AX500-PN ATX2.2 500W Power Supply - Retail
Cooler Master Stacker RC-832-KKN1-GP Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower
My initial decision was on the E6750 and P5E based on the reviews here in the Tom's Hardware mobo/processor overclocking articles, but seeing the responses in the thread I started to change my mind. I still haven't decided on a monitor yet.
Most of my work comprises:
1. Web browsing, forum posting, general web surfing
2. DVD burning, Unrar/Rar
3. Medium weight website design (Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Adobe CS3, etc.) minimal Flash
4. Some movie editing and video encoding (AVI to DVD, MPEG, MP4, etc.)
5. Some photo editing
6. Occaisional gaming (Rome Total War and the Total War types of games)
7. Occaisional large spreadsheets, word documents and pdf builds and disassembles.
So given the above, what do ya'll experts feel would be more oriented toward my core workload? Obviously modifications are welcome. I have about $1200 to play with including the monitor I haven't purchased yet.
Cheers and thanks for your help,
Oskaar
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/248273-31-building-system
And got some very nice insight into components so thank you all very much for that and your willlingness to share your knowledge and experience.
OK so before I found the forums and started reading this is what I had in mind:
ASUS P5E LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz LGA 775 65W
Wintec AMPO 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
XFX PVT84JUSD4 GeForce 8600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI
Seagate ST3400320AS 400GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Cooler Master RR-CCH-L9U1-GP 92mm Hyper TX2 CPU Cooler - Retail
FSP Group AX500-PN ATX2.2 500W Power Supply - Retail
Cooler Master Stacker RC-832-KKN1-GP Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower
But after reading the abovereferenced thread I started thinking and came up with:
GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 65W
Wintec AMPO 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
XFX PVT84JUSD4 GeForce 8600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI
2 - Seagate ST3400320AS 400GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Cooler Master RR-CCH-L9U1-GP 92mm Hyper TX2 CPU Cooler - Retail
FSP Group AX500-PN ATX2.2 500W Power Supply - Retail
Cooler Master Stacker RC-832-KKN1-GP Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower
My initial decision was on the E6750 and P5E based on the reviews here in the Tom's Hardware mobo/processor overclocking articles, but seeing the responses in the thread I started to change my mind. I still haven't decided on a monitor yet.
Most of my work comprises:
1. Web browsing, forum posting, general web surfing
2. DVD burning, Unrar/Rar
3. Medium weight website design (Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Adobe CS3, etc.) minimal Flash
4. Some movie editing and video encoding (AVI to DVD, MPEG, MP4, etc.)
5. Some photo editing
6. Occaisional gaming (Rome Total War and the Total War types of games)
7. Occaisional large spreadsheets, word documents and pdf builds and disassembles.
So given the above, what do ya'll experts feel would be more oriented toward my core workload? Obviously modifications are welcome. I have about $1200 to play with including the monitor I haven't purchased yet.
Cheers and thanks for your help,
Oskaar