A warm Hello to all the members & moderators! Thank you so much for this opportunity.
I need to assemble my first desktop PC and having spent the past few days reading the various posts in the Forums, I still feel lost because I've found a lot of information on the forums with regards to the best rigs for Gaming, Office or Professional use under a varied price range, understanding processors, motherboards and other components that form an integral part of any machine and how to fairly understand their technicalities and I'm still struggling to see where my needs fit in.. Hence I thought posting my needs on the Forum instead would be a good place to start asking for help. If anyone feels that the same needs has already been addressed with in another Thread, please help me by pasting a link in reply..
My budget: Below $750-$1000
What am I going to use my first desktop for:
Multitasking-Being a freelance researcher & translator, I've use the internet a lot and have at least 15 odd tabs open at any given point in time, work on multiple word & excel sheets(Windows) and since I'm currently freelancing from home, I like to have my favorite music playing in the backgrounds.. Sometime watch a movie or play a game(Flight Simulator/ Prince of Persia) while I take care of work.. Also, I love downloading multilingual movies & soaps online and I'm constantly working with downloads and conversions of video & audio taking place simultaneously. I understand that choosing an processor with HT would do me good... would Intel i7-2600K be an overkill.. As I understand from the forums i5 processors do not support hyperthreading unless it's M(Mobile) usually used in laptops? Also, I would like my desktop to be online & working 24x7... without having to restart it in months-Is that possible to achieve with the kind of budget I have?
Once I have narrowed in on a processor, then the next logical step I've learned from the forums is choosing the right motherboard- IAsus P67 Pro or Gigabyte has a whole thread dedicated to the pros & Cons.. well.. as I'm currently not going to overclock my processor but would like to keep that option open in the near future and the games I play are not "hardcore" games either.. so which MoBo & Video card would you suggest?
I've also learned that the cooler Master HAF X is a very good chasis for my CPU.. would that be a overkill for me considering the above?
If anyone can help me figure this out, I think the rest of the information I can get from the forum threads...
I would like to thank one & all who have contributed to this wonderful forum... The posts here are extremely educating and helpful and although sometimes the information is just too much for a beginner like me, it's still a learning experience and helps me"broaden" my horizons with regards to technical know how! Thank you all so much for this opportunity and for contributing!
With tons of Luv & light,
nox
I need to assemble my first desktop PC and having spent the past few days reading the various posts in the Forums, I still feel lost because I've found a lot of information on the forums with regards to the best rigs for Gaming, Office or Professional use under a varied price range, understanding processors, motherboards and other components that form an integral part of any machine and how to fairly understand their technicalities and I'm still struggling to see where my needs fit in.. Hence I thought posting my needs on the Forum instead would be a good place to start asking for help. If anyone feels that the same needs has already been addressed with in another Thread, please help me by pasting a link in reply..
My budget: Below $750-$1000
What am I going to use my first desktop for:
Multitasking-Being a freelance researcher & translator, I've use the internet a lot and have at least 15 odd tabs open at any given point in time, work on multiple word & excel sheets(Windows) and since I'm currently freelancing from home, I like to have my favorite music playing in the backgrounds.. Sometime watch a movie or play a game(Flight Simulator/ Prince of Persia) while I take care of work.. Also, I love downloading multilingual movies & soaps online and I'm constantly working with downloads and conversions of video & audio taking place simultaneously. I understand that choosing an processor with HT would do me good... would Intel i7-2600K be an overkill.. As I understand from the forums i5 processors do not support hyperthreading unless it's M(Mobile) usually used in laptops? Also, I would like my desktop to be online & working 24x7... without having to restart it in months-Is that possible to achieve with the kind of budget I have?
Once I have narrowed in on a processor, then the next logical step I've learned from the forums is choosing the right motherboard- IAsus P67 Pro or Gigabyte has a whole thread dedicated to the pros & Cons.. well.. as I'm currently not going to overclock my processor but would like to keep that option open in the near future and the games I play are not "hardcore" games either.. so which MoBo & Video card would you suggest?
I've also learned that the cooler Master HAF X is a very good chasis for my CPU.. would that be a overkill for me considering the above?
If anyone can help me figure this out, I think the rest of the information I can get from the forum threads...
I would like to thank one & all who have contributed to this wonderful forum... The posts here are extremely educating and helpful and although sometimes the information is just too much for a beginner like me, it's still a learning experience and helps me"broaden" my horizons with regards to technical know how! Thank you all so much for this opportunity and for contributing!
With tons of Luv & light,
nox