Purchasing in UK tomorrow (!) - gaming & blu-ray; HD video editing.
HAVE MERCY! My desktop PC just stopped turning on and I really can't be bothered to find out why. You know? You know that feeling? Anyway. So I thought, hey, I'm overdue a new PC.
Seeing the marathon build (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/overclock-cpu-gpu,2643-2.html) my requ's differ slightly - I'm not likely to be OCing, so am accepting stock speeds / ratings, the max rez will be 1080p cos that's what the monitor does (!). I will also have 2 x 1TB drives.
From what I can tell in recent reviews, 2 x 460s / 768MB are fine (gief TDU2 / Crysis 2)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/227499
PSU, felt good to go 850 vs 650 to be on the safe side for drives and future upg to 485 (! HA !)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/135514
Re: case, it gotta look good. BUT I hate cases that you can't put things in and out of - hence like HAF 932 - but is that rly necessary?
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148685
I have a Xonar D2X - can't decide if to put into the new pc. Still think it's better than mobo sound, but if I have to spend £30 more on a mobo and it has 7.1 and I don't use it, well that's just dumb.
Not bothered about USB 3.0 or latest SATA as I have F3 Spinpoints and won't be upgrading them. Pref intel chipset as using Intel Matrix RAID and want to be able to pull data off without moving disks between PCs. Yuk.
CPU / mobo - no preference. Always had either Asus or Intel boxed, and Intel CPUs. Current is Q9550 - so it GOTTA BE FASTERRRRR...
Thanks in advance guys - make my day better ...
HAVE MERCY! My desktop PC just stopped turning on and I really can't be bothered to find out why. You know? You know that feeling? Anyway. So I thought, hey, I'm overdue a new PC.
Seeing the marathon build (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/overclock-cpu-gpu,2643-2.html) my requ's differ slightly - I'm not likely to be OCing, so am accepting stock speeds / ratings, the max rez will be 1080p cos that's what the monitor does (!). I will also have 2 x 1TB drives.
From what I can tell in recent reviews, 2 x 460s / 768MB are fine (gief TDU2 / Crysis 2)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/227499
PSU, felt good to go 850 vs 650 to be on the safe side for drives and future upg to 485 (! HA !)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/135514
Re: case, it gotta look good. BUT I hate cases that you can't put things in and out of - hence like HAF 932 - but is that rly necessary?
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148685
I have a Xonar D2X - can't decide if to put into the new pc. Still think it's better than mobo sound, but if I have to spend £30 more on a mobo and it has 7.1 and I don't use it, well that's just dumb.
Not bothered about USB 3.0 or latest SATA as I have F3 Spinpoints and won't be upgrading them. Pref intel chipset as using Intel Matrix RAID and want to be able to pull data off without moving disks between PCs. Yuk.
CPU / mobo - no preference. Always had either Asus or Intel boxed, and Intel CPUs. Current is Q9550 - so it GOTTA BE FASTERRRRR...
Thanks in advance guys - make my day better ...