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stefuel
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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Location: Green Harbor MA USA
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| Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:27 am Post subject: A little OT. State of the art PC mobo and processor |
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Going to re-power this PC and looking for suggestions. This PC is 8+ years old as is it's HDD. I was simply going to clone this HDD as a precaution and it got me thinking 
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WanMan
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I just realized you are in Green Harbor. I was just up there in the RI/MA area (and actually used the 495/95 junction). I could have visited.
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RaWsHaRk
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Location: Finland
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| Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 5:14 pm Post subject: Re: A little OT. State of the art PC mobo and processor |
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| stefuel wrote: | | Going to re-power this PC and looking for suggestions. This PC is 8+ years old as is it's HDD. I was simply going to clone this HDD as a precaution and it got me thinking |
what is your budget? "state of the art" would mean something like 5000 usd or more.
Smart thing would be a i2500k processor and asrock P67 mobo..8-16gb of ddr3 and a geforce 570 card. xfx 550w power.
but anything you can buy in a shop today is light years ahead of "8 years old pc" so how much power do you REALLY need..?
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Spanky Ham
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Yeah, this is an open ended question. I have an Athlon II X3, Biostar mobo, 240 Geforce that I am about to sell because I upgraded. Is my new machine faster? Yes, but the old one was more than adequate and worked really well for day to day computing.
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WanMan
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| Spanky Ham wrote: | | Yeah, this is an open ended question. I have an Athlon II X3, Biostar mobo, 240 Geforce that I am about to sell because I upgraded. Is my new machine faster? Yes, but the old one was more than adequate and worked really well for day to day computing. |
If it was more than adequate why did you upgrade?
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Spanky Ham
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| WanMan wrote: | | Spanky Ham wrote: | | Yeah, this is an open ended question. I have an Athlon II X3, Biostar mobo, 240 Geforce that I am about to sell because I upgraded. Is my new machine faster? Yes, but the old one was more than adequate and worked really well for day to day computing. |
If it was more than adequate why did you upgrade? |
Fair question and the truth is I just wanted the fastest CPU out there to play with. I ended up getting the I5-2500k (I know it isn't the fastest) deal from Microcenter along with a mobo. Also, I do want to start gaming some more and at some point I will use the lightening fast Intel transcoding.
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