adam02
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As the thread title suggests, I will be ordering a new system this week to replace my old wooden AMD 64 3700 San Diego single core, So I'm due an upgrade.
And since I have been out of the game for a while, in terms of keeping up-to-date with what components were sweet and a must to get, I will have to ask for assistance from the community - You guys know what's up at the moment and what's up and coming. So anyway:
I have a budget of ~£800
My requirements: to play and record (fraps) gaming content at 1920x1280 res at at least high quality generally speaking to be edited in Sony Vegas for 1080p YouTube content, I also do a lot of music production on Ableton Live but the requirements aren't as demanding as the gaming+frapsing part (usually).
So yes, I would also like to emphasize that when recording I have mics aswell so I'd like to keep the sound down and also if some items are more energy efficient that's also a plus.
Upon initial research I'm leaning towards a i5 2500k/2550k system, I'm not entirely sure what motherboard to get.
I will also need two hard drives,
one hard drive dedicated to programs and operating system (ideally 120-200GB); and the other dedicated to storage of fraps content, music, videos, sound samples etc: (ideally around 750GB - 1TB)
Also, I would probably want to get 16GB of Ram as when I fraps content I would have the game running + my DAW (Audio software) running/recording, and fraps and I imagine it would help out in the long run.
Also on graphics cards I want a single GPU that's generally best bang for buck at the moment also leaning towards high end, preferably with a decent cooler that is also good at keeping low noise.
If you have any other questions about what I need do ask, I will be ordering this week at any time so yeah, thanks.
And since I have been out of the game for a while, in terms of keeping up-to-date with what components were sweet and a must to get, I will have to ask for assistance from the community - You guys know what's up at the moment and what's up and coming. So anyway:
I have a budget of ~£800
My requirements: to play and record (fraps) gaming content at 1920x1280 res at at least high quality generally speaking to be edited in Sony Vegas for 1080p YouTube content, I also do a lot of music production on Ableton Live but the requirements aren't as demanding as the gaming+frapsing part (usually).
So yes, I would also like to emphasize that when recording I have mics aswell so I'd like to keep the sound down and also if some items are more energy efficient that's also a plus.
Upon initial research I'm leaning towards a i5 2500k/2550k system, I'm not entirely sure what motherboard to get.
I will also need two hard drives,
one hard drive dedicated to programs and operating system (ideally 120-200GB); and the other dedicated to storage of fraps content, music, videos, sound samples etc: (ideally around 750GB - 1TB)
Also, I would probably want to get 16GB of Ram as when I fraps content I would have the game running + my DAW (Audio software) running/recording, and fraps and I imagine it would help out in the long run.
Also on graphics cards I want a single GPU that's generally best bang for buck at the moment also leaning towards high end, preferably with a decent cooler that is also good at keeping low noise.
If you have any other questions about what I need do ask, I will be ordering this week at any time so yeah, thanks.
overclockers do some great cpu/mobo packages with ram, worth a good look. you might be able to get a better cpu, board and ram for just a little extra
