I have been planning to upgrade or getting a whole new system for awhile untill couple weeks ago i decided to sell my 3 years old rig with the following specs:
Old rig
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Intel Core Duo E6750@2.66GHz
Gigabyte P35-DS3 MB (faulty & replaced with MSI mATX board)
3GB of Kingston Value DDR2-SDRAM
HP w2207 Wide LCD monitor
NVIDIA GeForce G92 8800GTS 512MB
Seagate 160GB HDD & Hitachi 320GB HDD
Samsung 20x Dual layer Super-Writemaster
Creative SB X-FI XtremeGamer
Logitech z-5500 5.1 Speaker
Logitech Mx518
You could see the rig in the old thread here http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3389
I retained the sound card, speaker and mouse and to be used with my new pc. Some components i already ordered and some still in consideration:
New rig
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1) Still undecided:
Processor - Intel sandy bridge, maybe core i5-2500
Motherboard - sandy bridge p67, maybe Asrock m/b
Graphic Card - AMD 6970/6950 or nVidia 570
2) the rest (ordered):
8 GB Corsair 1333 DDR3 dual channnel
Corsair 600T casing
Corsair HX750 PSU
1TB Samsung Spinpoint
500GB Western Digital (re-use)
Dell U2311H LCD
22x LG DVD rewritable
Creative SB X-FI XtremeGamer(re-use)
Logitech z-5500 5.1 Speaker(re-use)
Logitech Mx518(re-use)
Any comments on processor, m/b and gc that i should get? i do gaming and movie watching quite equally, and very often multitaskings (downloading, playing music, and surfing)
Old rig
==========
Intel Core Duo E6750@2.66GHz
Gigabyte P35-DS3 MB (faulty & replaced with MSI mATX board)
3GB of Kingston Value DDR2-SDRAM
HP w2207 Wide LCD monitor
NVIDIA GeForce G92 8800GTS 512MB
Seagate 160GB HDD & Hitachi 320GB HDD
Samsung 20x Dual layer Super-Writemaster
Creative SB X-FI XtremeGamer
Logitech z-5500 5.1 Speaker
Logitech Mx518
You could see the rig in the old thread here http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3389
I retained the sound card, speaker and mouse and to be used with my new pc. Some components i already ordered and some still in consideration:
New rig
==========
1) Still undecided:
Processor - Intel sandy bridge, maybe core i5-2500
Motherboard - sandy bridge p67, maybe Asrock m/b
Graphic Card - AMD 6970/6950 or nVidia 570
2) the rest (ordered):
8 GB Corsair 1333 DDR3 dual channnel
Corsair 600T casing
Corsair HX750 PSU
1TB Samsung Spinpoint
500GB Western Digital (re-use)
Dell U2311H LCD
22x LG DVD rewritable
Creative SB X-FI XtremeGamer(re-use)
Logitech z-5500 5.1 Speaker(re-use)
Logitech Mx518(re-use)
Any comments on processor, m/b and gc that i should get? i do gaming and movie watching quite equally, and very often multitaskings (downloading, playing music, and surfing)