Time to build a new system, the one i have is about 5 years old
It will be used for Office Progs and a little gaming (EVE-Online)
Bugget is not the problem, and i'm in Europe.
Like to build a fast system but also as silent as possible.
Power consumption is also importend (Electr. bills over time cost also alot)
No crossfire or SLI wanted
CPU Intel Core 2 Quad, Q9450 boxed or maybe the Q9550
Motherboard Asus R.O.G. Maximus Formula X38 or
Gigabyte GA-EX38-DS5 X38
Case Antec Nine Hundred black
PSU Corsair VX 550W ATX 2.2
Cooler Noctua NH-U12P
RAM 2x 4096MB DDR2RAM Corsair Twin2x 6400U ???
GPU EVGA 1024MB 8800GT Akimbo PCIe ???
HD Seagate 7200.11 500 GB
DVD Lite-On DH-52C2P Combo Black
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit
About the prize, this would be aprox $1900 or €1260
Any advice about improving this build are welcome.
Message edited by Sandokan on 04-12-2008 at 08:39:21 PM
if you are concerned about power consumption, and still want high performance. look into nVidia's hybrid SLI. basicly if has low power onboard graphics, and then you add it a 9800gtx (only the newest GPUs work for it I guess) the IGP runs the web surfing and other normal stuff, and the discrete shuts itself down. when you fire up a game, the discrete fires back up and takes over. saves about 100 watts, pretty huge for a 24/7 computer.
I'm not sure how widespread the hardware has been launched, but I heard its availiable in europe.
you may also want to consider AMD/ATI, some of thier stuff is very low power.
if quiet is a huge concern, think about water cooling.
I don't know about the PSU and RAM you picked either way, but look for 80+ efficency in your PSU, and get one as small as possible. a 1000 watter pumping out 150 watts in idle isn't as effiecnient as a 400 watt PSU putting out he same 150 watts even if they are rated at the same efficiency.
I'd loow for low voltage memory. 1.8 volts would be great, 2.3 would not.
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