Hello boys and girls!
I´m in the process of building a new computer since my old one does feel a bit old and slow, not to mention that stupid northbridge-fan that keeps breaking.... *sigh*
Anyway, I´m mostly going to be playing and doing some minor programming on it and occassionaly doing some Photoshop work with it.
I´ll be running XP pro 32-bit for some time yet, but i will eventually move to Vista in the near future.
I´ve (more or less) decided to use the following component in my build:
CPU: ?
Mainbord: Asus Maximus iX38 (the DDR2 version)
Memory: 2x 2048Mb DDR2 OCZ Reaper HPC 8500
Graphic: Asus 8800GTS 512Mb, not SLI (yet)
(Case, PSU, DVD etc is already taken care of, will use existing parts from the old machine)
Regarding the 4Gb of memory, I know that a 32-bit OS will only give me 3-3.5Gb of memory despite having 4Gb, but i like to think that more-is-better in this case.
And now the question is, what CPU should I have?
I´ve been looking alot on the Q9450 CPU, but now, after doing som reading in the forums etc, I´m not so sure that I need 4 cores, maybe I´ll do just as well with 2, at least for now.
Any suggestions regarding my thoughts on choice of CPU is greatly appreciated.
I´m in the process of building a new computer since my old one does feel a bit old and slow, not to mention that stupid northbridge-fan that keeps breaking.... *sigh*
Anyway, I´m mostly going to be playing and doing some minor programming on it and occassionaly doing some Photoshop work with it.
I´ll be running XP pro 32-bit for some time yet, but i will eventually move to Vista in the near future.
I´ve (more or less) decided to use the following component in my build:
CPU: ?
Mainbord: Asus Maximus iX38 (the DDR2 version)
Memory: 2x 2048Mb DDR2 OCZ Reaper HPC 8500
Graphic: Asus 8800GTS 512Mb, not SLI (yet)
(Case, PSU, DVD etc is already taken care of, will use existing parts from the old machine)
Regarding the 4Gb of memory, I know that a 32-bit OS will only give me 3-3.5Gb of memory despite having 4Gb, but i like to think that more-is-better in this case.
And now the question is, what CPU should I have?
I´ve been looking alot on the Q9450 CPU, but now, after doing som reading in the forums etc, I´m not so sure that I need 4 cores, maybe I´ll do just as well with 2, at least for now.
Any suggestions regarding my thoughts on choice of CPU is greatly appreciated.