Hi All,
Yeah, like others here I'm going to upgrade- present system is a P4 3.0GHZ and have been out of touch with hardware for sometime now
But, I'm very excited about getting back into building a system again. I've done a lot of reading over the last few days and here's what I've come up with so far
core i5 2.6 - decided this over quad core for performance and architecture upgradation and over i7 for price.
LGA 1156 - just in case I want to upgrade to an i7 down the road. I saw that i7's come in 2 different chip sets. Am I ok here?
Asus -7p55d and Gigabyte GAA-p55M are the 2 I'm interested in for the price and performance. They also have some good ratings on Newegg. Thoughts? I'm thinking the Asus because my present one is an Asus and has been trouble free for well over 5 years.
ddr3 1600 is memory for price and performance mix,. I'm thinking GSKILL 4GB (2x2). I have crucial and that has given me a couple of issues but largely trouble free.
I'm undecided over graphics card. I have an ATI now but before that used to have NVIDIA. I know this is a very broad question and one that will open up a can of works. I'm thinking ATI. Any recommendations? Sapphire seems to have a lt of cards. I have a Diamond now.
Have plenty of hard drives that I can reuse, so won't buy any
I am planning on reusing my SB Audigy2 Platinum Ex for now. Mobo has PCI slot I can use. Maybe an upgrade down the road
Also, can anyone recommend a heatsink+fan for cpu? I am leaning away from thermaltake. Returned 2 a few years ago because of noise.
Any recommendations for a cabinet? I can't believe how many cabinets there are out there. Newegg has a LARGE selection.
Thanks for any suggestions and lending me your ears
Yeah, like others here I'm going to upgrade- present system is a P4 3.0GHZ and have been out of touch with hardware for sometime now
But, I'm very excited about getting back into building a system again. I've done a lot of reading over the last few days and here's what I've come up with so far
core i5 2.6 - decided this over quad core for performance and architecture upgradation and over i7 for price.
LGA 1156 - just in case I want to upgrade to an i7 down the road. I saw that i7's come in 2 different chip sets. Am I ok here?
Asus -7p55d and Gigabyte GAA-p55M are the 2 I'm interested in for the price and performance. They also have some good ratings on Newegg. Thoughts? I'm thinking the Asus because my present one is an Asus and has been trouble free for well over 5 years.
ddr3 1600 is memory for price and performance mix,. I'm thinking GSKILL 4GB (2x2). I have crucial and that has given me a couple of issues but largely trouble free.
I'm undecided over graphics card. I have an ATI now but before that used to have NVIDIA. I know this is a very broad question and one that will open up a can of works. I'm thinking ATI. Any recommendations? Sapphire seems to have a lt of cards. I have a Diamond now.
Have plenty of hard drives that I can reuse, so won't buy any
I am planning on reusing my SB Audigy2 Platinum Ex for now. Mobo has PCI slot I can use. Maybe an upgrade down the road
Also, can anyone recommend a heatsink+fan for cpu? I am leaning away from thermaltake. Returned 2 a few years ago because of noise.
Any recommendations for a cabinet? I can't believe how many cabinets there are out there. Newegg has a LARGE selection.
Thanks for any suggestions and lending me your ears