hello everyone... my first post here...
this is my comp i built just over a year ago and i think it might be time for a big upgrade!
as well as what's in the pic it's got:
i could sorely do with advice! if anyone has a similar system or knows a good route to upgrade then please help me out and look at my wishlist below. :down_arrow: :down_arrow: :nerd:
what i would like to change:
i'm confident i can rig a cooling system up (never done one) and, well, there's probably not much overclocking potential with my budget and the stuff i want to shove in my case so there's only so much i could get out of it.
i just took pics so you can see what sort of space i'm working with- fairly big atx case. i don't think i need to replace it.
http://www.nickgrayson.net/temp/front.jpg
http://www.nickgrayson.net/temp/side.jpg
http://www.nickgrayson.net/temp/hdrack.jpg
maybe it could end up looking like this
CHEEERS!!!
this is my comp i built just over a year ago and i think it might be time for a big upgrade!
as well as what's in the pic it's got:
- another gig of same ram
- WinTV-NOVA-T PCI tv card
- win xp
- Maxtor DiamondMax 10 (6L200P0) 200 GB hard drive
- big crt IBM ThinkVision C220P (Black) 22 in. Monitor
- dvd drive
- dvd+/- RW drive
i could sorely do with advice! if anyone has a similar system or knows a good route to upgrade then please help me out and look at my wishlist below. :down_arrow: :down_arrow: :nerd:
what i would like to change:
- HD. about 600 gb of free space in a striped raid config. so about 1.2tb. i don't want mirroring for the lot but say 100gb mirrored would be good for a safe storage area and the other 500 just striped. i have no idea if my mobo can do BOTH like this but i don't want to get a seperate card. i've got 5 free hd slots in my case.
- CPU. needs to be socket 939. the best i'm aware of for this is the AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ 2.20GHz (939). this is about £98 in the uk new.
- GFX. something of the price of nVidia GeForce 8600GTS 256MB PCI-E or nVidia GeForce 8600GT 512MB DDR2 PCI-E. i could go for an ati if they're hot at a similar price (about £100 uk). now i could sli my existing card (xfx geforce 7600gs sli 256mb pci-e) with a new one but i doubt the performance would be a good bang for my bucks, any ideas? ebay??
- cooling. i think the new gfx card is going to have a fan on it and i've already got a dome-like extractor over the cpu's fan pumping straight out the side of my case but this probably isn't great at dissipating. standard cpu heatsink and fan. i might need something to keep the hard drives from melting and also to combat the heat that'll leak onto the mobo from all these new, beefier components. i want a quiet cooling setup and would go to £100 if it really was of benefit (say if i could overclock a lot) but would prefer £50 (if not overclocking at all).
- RAM: i've got 2gb of the same stuff in the pic ^^. if my mobo can take a higher speed i could go for that... or i could go for more of the same? would my new cpu cope with the bandwidth?
i'm confident i can rig a cooling system up (never done one) and, well, there's probably not much overclocking potential with my budget and the stuff i want to shove in my case so there's only so much i could get out of it.
i just took pics so you can see what sort of space i'm working with- fairly big atx case. i don't think i need to replace it.
http://www.nickgrayson.net/temp/front.jpg
http://www.nickgrayson.net/temp/side.jpg
http://www.nickgrayson.net/temp/hdrack.jpg
maybe it could end up looking like this
CHEEERS!!!