fhasser
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Finally the budget is coming together and the approx. date of order for a new system is sometime in Feb.
The system is mainly for Photoshop/Painter with lots of DVD watching, browsing and some gaming (not bothered about Crysis' high settings, although it'd nice to play smoothly TF2, Assassin's Creed (yea, I know :/) and COD4)
The budget is tight - aboslute max of $1400 (J700) incl. the monitor.
So, the Q:
1. CPU. Should I buy E2180 and overlock (not in the same day, but eventually) or Q6600 which is $200 more expensive? Or wait 'til the E8400 will come to UK (I'd love to have it). And how they'll sit on ASUS P5-N SLI 650i?
2. GPU. I can probably afford 8800GT if I'll go for E2180. But then, if it'll bottleneck it, is there a point at all? I'd love to have E8400 or Q6600, but then it's uncertain which Gpu to get. Even ATI's 38xx is out of budget then (512mb versions). How long is it for 9600GT to come and is it going to be cheap?
I know, it's kinda difficult to work out, so that's why I really need help.
OK, so what do you think?
The system is mainly for Photoshop/Painter with lots of DVD watching, browsing and some gaming (not bothered about Crysis' high settings, although it'd nice to play smoothly TF2, Assassin's Creed (yea, I know :/) and COD4)
The budget is tight - aboslute max of $1400 (J700) incl. the monitor.
So, the Q:
1. CPU. Should I buy E2180 and overlock (not in the same day, but eventually) or Q6600 which is $200 more expensive? Or wait 'til the E8400 will come to UK (I'd love to have it). And how they'll sit on ASUS P5-N SLI 650i?
2. GPU. I can probably afford 8800GT if I'll go for E2180. But then, if it'll bottleneck it, is there a point at all? I'd love to have E8400 or Q6600, but then it's uncertain which Gpu to get. Even ATI's 38xx is out of budget then (512mb versions). How long is it for 9600GT to come and is it going to be cheap?
I know, it's kinda difficult to work out, so that's why I really need help.
OK, so what do you think?