Hi everybody!
I'm building a new system for myself. The budget is around 600-700, the cheaper - the better
Main tasks to perform: listening and mixing music (Ableton, Adobe Audition), web-design (maybe some Photoshop), watching videos, some games (Football Manager 2007, nothing requiring real good video card).
So far I came up to the next setup:
1. 122-126$ Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 or E4400
2. 114$-10 MiR Motherboard MSI P6N SLI-FI (I'm taking 120 Gb harddrive and Sony cd-rom from old system, as this one have 2 IDE connectors)
3. 110$-15 MiR Video Sapphire Radeon x1650XT
4. 104$-40 MiR Memory Corsair 2x1Gb DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) XMS2 C4 4-4-4-12 2.1 v
5. 66$-10 MiR Case Cooler Master Centurion 5CAC-TO5-UW or Cooler Master Centurion 5
6. 100$-10 MiR Power Supply Corsair 520W CMPSU-520HX
Total: 616-620$ - 85 MiR = 531-535$
Later, may be next month I'm planning to add some more stuff to the system:
- Sata DVD-RW
- SATA 2.0 harddrive 750 GB
- LCD 22'' monitor
- cooler, something from Zalman (9700?), because I want to overclock the system, that was one of the reason to choose Intel, another one is to score on Quad upgrade, when available on cheap price (may be in 2 years from now).
So, if beeing not a big specialist in hardware area I have next questions to ask:
1. Are my system components compatible and should potentially work good with each other?
2. What processor should I choose for better overclocking: E4300 or E4400. I'm looking at 3,0Ghz level.
3. Do I need to buy a cooler right now or it will be fine before overclocking?
4. Any components replacements suggested?
Thanks in advance for your time and help!
I'm building a new system for myself. The budget is around 600-700, the cheaper - the better
Main tasks to perform: listening and mixing music (Ableton, Adobe Audition), web-design (maybe some Photoshop), watching videos, some games (Football Manager 2007, nothing requiring real good video card).So far I came up to the next setup:
1. 122-126$ Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 or E4400
2. 114$-10 MiR Motherboard MSI P6N SLI-FI (I'm taking 120 Gb harddrive and Sony cd-rom from old system, as this one have 2 IDE connectors
)3. 110$-15 MiR Video Sapphire Radeon x1650XT
4. 104$-40 MiR Memory Corsair 2x1Gb DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) XMS2 C4 4-4-4-12 2.1 v
5. 66$-10 MiR Case Cooler Master Centurion 5CAC-TO5-UW or Cooler Master Centurion 5
6. 100$-10 MiR Power Supply Corsair 520W CMPSU-520HX
Total: 616-620$ - 85 MiR = 531-535$
Later, may be next month I'm planning to add some more stuff to the system:
- Sata DVD-RW
- SATA 2.0 harddrive 750 GB
- LCD 22'' monitor
- cooler, something from Zalman (9700?), because I want to overclock the system, that was one of the reason to choose Intel, another one is to score on Quad upgrade, when available on cheap price (may be in 2 years from now).
So, if beeing not a big specialist in hardware area I have next questions to ask:
1. Are my system components compatible and should potentially work good with each other?
2. What processor should I choose for better overclocking: E4300 or E4400. I'm looking at 3,0Ghz level.
3. Do I need to buy a cooler right now or it will be fine before overclocking?
4. Any components replacements suggested?
Thanks in advance for your time and help!
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