I am currently in the process of drawing up specs for a new pc, this pc will PREDOMINANTLY but not entirely be used for gaming. Im big tim einto music creation aswell so wil be using programs like Reason and Cubase on this.
Here be the proposed specs...
Power Supply Unit: Hiper 525W True Power PSU
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 FX-57
CPU fan: Zalman Ultra Quiet CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Socket 939 PCI-Express
Graphics card: GeForce 7800 GTX PCI-Express
Memory: 2GB Corsair TwinX PC3200 Pro
Hard disk drive 1: Raptor 74GB S-ATA 150
Hard disk drive 2: Raptor 74GB S-ATA 150 In RAID mode 0 with above Raptor Hard Disk.
Hard disk drive 3; Any small high performance HD (10000rpm) or better, only to put OS and pagefile onto.
Optical drive 1: Any Good DVD-Rom drive
Optical drive 2: Plextor PT716ADL Dvd +/- RW/R Writer.
Floppy Drive: Floppy drive
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Pro
Monitor: BenQ FP71E+ 17\" TFT Monitor (8ms response time) (Unless you know of better options for same price range.)
Keyboard: High Performance Keyboard (Audio Shortcuts would be nice)
Mouse: Logitech MX 518 Performance mouse
Speakers: Creative Inspire 7.1 T7900 Speakers
Operating System: Windows XP 64 Professional SP2
Wireless Card; Any 802.11g capable card.
Any tips/advice guys? Any forseeable issues with the above hardware or better yet.. options to improve performance, as far as I know as of the moment.. this is the highest specs I could come up with.
My MAXIMUM budget is around £3000 although cheaper would be preferable. Any comments would be much appreciated.
Here be the proposed specs...
Power Supply Unit: Hiper 525W True Power PSU
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 FX-57
CPU fan: Zalman Ultra Quiet CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Socket 939 PCI-Express
Graphics card: GeForce 7800 GTX PCI-Express
Memory: 2GB Corsair TwinX PC3200 Pro
Hard disk drive 1: Raptor 74GB S-ATA 150
Hard disk drive 2: Raptor 74GB S-ATA 150 In RAID mode 0 with above Raptor Hard Disk.
Hard disk drive 3; Any small high performance HD (10000rpm) or better, only to put OS and pagefile onto.
Optical drive 1: Any Good DVD-Rom drive
Optical drive 2: Plextor PT716ADL Dvd +/- RW/R Writer.
Floppy Drive: Floppy drive
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Pro
Monitor: BenQ FP71E+ 17\" TFT Monitor (8ms response time) (Unless you know of better options for same price range.)
Keyboard: High Performance Keyboard (Audio Shortcuts would be nice)
Mouse: Logitech MX 518 Performance mouse
Speakers: Creative Inspire 7.1 T7900 Speakers
Operating System: Windows XP 64 Professional SP2
Wireless Card; Any 802.11g capable card.
Any tips/advice guys? Any forseeable issues with the above hardware or better yet.. options to improve performance, as far as I know as of the moment.. this is the highest specs I could come up with.
My MAXIMUM budget is around £3000 although cheaper would be preferable. Any comments would be much appreciated.