I've been doing some research on CPU's and I'm still lost. I can't figure out how much CPU I need. The last time I built a computer single cores were all there was. I'm trying to keep this cheap but I don't want to build something that will be obsolete in the next year.
I'm not into gaming much(although I might get coerced into playing Star Wars Old Republic), I'll be using it mostly for playing music and videos, surfing the net; I also will be using it for audio recording and editing which I guess would be the most taxing thing I do. I want to make sure it will run Windows 7 well... I figure if I can't then there's no reason for me to upgrade from my 2.4 Pentium running XP.
Here's what I'm thinking about:
AMD Phenom II X3 710 2.6GHz Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core
+
ASUS M4A78 PRO AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
or
AMD Phenom 8750 Toliman 2.4GHz Socket AM2+ 95W Triple-Core
+
ASUS M3N78-VM AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 8200 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Ram: Patriot Viper 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)
HDD: Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200AAJS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - OEM
PSU: Antec earthwatts EA430 430W Continuous Power ATX12V v2.0 80 PLUS Certified
Please let me know what you think about this setup or recommend a CPU and MOBO around the same price. Does that power supply have enough juice? I'll be hooking up a Delta 44 PCI audio interface and maybe down the road a video card if I need it.
Jeremy
I'm not into gaming much(although I might get coerced into playing Star Wars Old Republic), I'll be using it mostly for playing music and videos, surfing the net; I also will be using it for audio recording and editing which I guess would be the most taxing thing I do. I want to make sure it will run Windows 7 well... I figure if I can't then there's no reason for me to upgrade from my 2.4 Pentium running XP.
Here's what I'm thinking about:
AMD Phenom II X3 710 2.6GHz Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core
+
ASUS M4A78 PRO AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
or
AMD Phenom 8750 Toliman 2.4GHz Socket AM2+ 95W Triple-Core
+
ASUS M3N78-VM AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 8200 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Ram: Patriot Viper 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)
HDD: Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200AAJS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - OEM
PSU: Antec earthwatts EA430 430W Continuous Power ATX12V v2.0 80 PLUS Certified
Please let me know what you think about this setup or recommend a CPU and MOBO around the same price. Does that power supply have enough juice? I'll be hooking up a Delta 44 PCI audio interface and maybe down the road a video card if I need it.
Jeremy