Hi everyone,
Last week I installed Witcher 2 on my old HP pavilion m9150. It's a intel quad 2 Q6600. It has an upgraded power supply : VX550watt corsair, and graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512, and 8gigs (max) ram. none the less the game runs on high...but I can tell It's time for an upgrade.
To save I am hoping to salvage my Hard Drive and use it in the new build. It has windows 7-64bit. I just don't want to have to reinstall all my programs again and loose saved games and what not. If possible I'll keep using the power supply as well. Well not upping my hard drive hinder this new build ? I want to stay around 1500.00 max budget.
Here is what I have so far. Please comment on things I should change. I'm looking for a build which leaves room for future changes and will get me through the next 4-5+ years in gaming. Oh and I want to be able to run max graphics settings with great gaming performance.
COOLER MASTER HAF X Newegg.com - COOLER MASTER HAF X RC-942-KKN1 Black Steel/ Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case
ASUS SABERTOOTH P67 Newegg.com - ASUS SABERTOOTH P67 (REV 3.0) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz Newegg.com - Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I72600K
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 24GB (6 x 4GB) Newegg.com - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 24GB (6 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9T2-24GBRL
EVGA 012-P3-1571-KR GeForce GTX 570 HD Newegg.com - EVGA 012-P3-1571-KR GeForce GTX 570 HD w/Display-Port (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
There seems to be several variants of the Geforce GTX 570, I'm not to sure which to get. I want to eventually get another and run SLI.
Thanks Chris.
Last week I installed Witcher 2 on my old HP pavilion m9150. It's a intel quad 2 Q6600. It has an upgraded power supply : VX550watt corsair, and graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512, and 8gigs (max) ram. none the less the game runs on high...but I can tell It's time for an upgrade.
To save I am hoping to salvage my Hard Drive and use it in the new build. It has windows 7-64bit. I just don't want to have to reinstall all my programs again and loose saved games and what not. If possible I'll keep using the power supply as well. Well not upping my hard drive hinder this new build ? I want to stay around 1500.00 max budget.
Here is what I have so far. Please comment on things I should change. I'm looking for a build which leaves room for future changes and will get me through the next 4-5+ years in gaming. Oh and I want to be able to run max graphics settings with great gaming performance.
COOLER MASTER HAF X Newegg.com - COOLER MASTER HAF X RC-942-KKN1 Black Steel/ Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case
ASUS SABERTOOTH P67 Newegg.com - ASUS SABERTOOTH P67 (REV 3.0) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz Newegg.com - Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I72600K
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 24GB (6 x 4GB) Newegg.com - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 24GB (6 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9T2-24GBRL
EVGA 012-P3-1571-KR GeForce GTX 570 HD Newegg.com - EVGA 012-P3-1571-KR GeForce GTX 570 HD w/Display-Port (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
There seems to be several variants of the Geforce GTX 570, I'm not to sure which to get. I want to eventually get another and run SLI.
Thanks Chris.