hi everyone,
I've been using Tom's HW website for a long time but this is actually my first post on in so I would like to say hello to everyone first.
As I said in the title my current pc can't handle some of the applications I need to use anymore and my main deal is with Zbrush. for that reason I've been taking a look at shops, lists, prices, websites and this is what I've got so far.
ThermalTake CASE MAMBO VC2000BNS BLK
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 (4 x 2.66 GHZ) 1333FSB - 12 MB
ASUS SKT-775 STRIKER II FORMULA S/L 1333FSB
GEIL 8GB DDR2 800 CL5.0 QUAD CHANNEL BLACK DRAGON RET
ASUS 768MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX 2xDVI PCI-E SLI
600W PSU
500 GB SATA HDD UDMA 300 7200 16MB
ASUS DVD±RW 20x S-ATA DRW-2014L1T BLACK LIGHTSCRIBE (SATA)
Motherboard Integrated 5.1 Sound
Fast 10/100 Ethernet Lan (Broadband Ready)
4 X USB 2.0 Ports
Speeze QuadroFlow VIII - Low Noise
my main doubts are about the motherboard, I chose that one since I saw good reviews of it but I would like to know if I could go for something cheaper; the cpu, I went for the most expensive one within the non extreme versions but I've heard good things about the Q6600 and next ones although maybe it is a little bit obsolete; and the graphics card since I don't know if I should go for ASUS 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX PCI-E 2.0 or ASUS 1GB RADEON HD 3850 X2 PCI-E 2.0 or something above the nvidia 8 series in general. I could have this config for £898 and although I had thought spending around £800 that price is something I could go for.
An that would be all. This is my first post finishes I hope you can help me a bit to make the final decision and I'll reallu appreciate any kind of tip.
thanks a lot to everyone guys!! see you around!
I've been using Tom's HW website for a long time but this is actually my first post on in so I would like to say hello to everyone first.
As I said in the title my current pc can't handle some of the applications I need to use anymore and my main deal is with Zbrush. for that reason I've been taking a look at shops, lists, prices, websites and this is what I've got so far.
ThermalTake CASE MAMBO VC2000BNS BLK
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 (4 x 2.66 GHZ) 1333FSB - 12 MB
ASUS SKT-775 STRIKER II FORMULA S/L 1333FSB
GEIL 8GB DDR2 800 CL5.0 QUAD CHANNEL BLACK DRAGON RET
ASUS 768MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX 2xDVI PCI-E SLI
600W PSU
500 GB SATA HDD UDMA 300 7200 16MB
ASUS DVD±RW 20x S-ATA DRW-2014L1T BLACK LIGHTSCRIBE (SATA)
Motherboard Integrated 5.1 Sound
Fast 10/100 Ethernet Lan (Broadband Ready)
4 X USB 2.0 Ports
Speeze QuadroFlow VIII - Low Noise
my main doubts are about the motherboard, I chose that one since I saw good reviews of it but I would like to know if I could go for something cheaper; the cpu, I went for the most expensive one within the non extreme versions but I've heard good things about the Q6600 and next ones although maybe it is a little bit obsolete; and the graphics card since I don't know if I should go for ASUS 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX PCI-E 2.0 or ASUS 1GB RADEON HD 3850 X2 PCI-E 2.0 or something above the nvidia 8 series in general. I could have this config for £898 and although I had thought spending around £800 that price is something I could go for.
An that would be all. This is my first post finishes I hope you can help me a bit to make the final decision and I'll reallu appreciate any kind of tip.
thanks a lot to everyone guys!! see you around!