So... After many sleepless nights of being unable to decide what my next system upgrades should be... I've decided on a Core i7 860.
I've been an AMD guy for many moons now, and finally just decided I'm a big boy that makes big boy money and can spend the extra on something better.
I'm upgrading from my MSI K9A2-CF with a Phenom 9950 Black Edition and 8GB of some generic RAM. It was a decent enough setup. I don't overclock, and I don't care about too many other features. Overall, no complaints.
I am migrating most of my old hardware though. Hard drive is moving over, don't feel the urge to spend a boatload on SAS or high RPM drives. I've got a 1tb and a 500gb that are making the trip to fastville. I'm also moving over my DVDRW (Duh) and my Radeon HD5870 (Double duh.)
I'm getting the MSI P55-GD80 and the ol' 860. The price was right for me. Very very very right, considering I'm selling my "leftovers" and it won't cost me a cent after selling the stuff I'm not using anymore. I'm also going with some Ballistix DDR3 4x2GB sticks of RAM. I haven't looked at reviews, I'm too scared to. I'm getting a heck of a good deal on it, so I'm not hugely worried. I hope it works out.
I'll be dropping Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on there. I've got a Zalman 9900 ordered for cooling as this is my living room PC and I like having a fan that's reasonably quiet or just not on at all.
I'm looking at a third party cooler for the 5870, but so far I don't feel like it's needed it. At all.
Now, I have an old Ultra 800w ps that took a poopies, and they're sending me a modular replacement... But I'm thinking I'll keep my 600watt Antec in there since I'm not overclocking, really. It's served me well so far, and if I have problems, I have a backup, so that's no huge thing.
Just wanted to share that I'm no longer the AMD guy at work. Now I'm the guy that made everybody else upgrade because of system envy. If you have any advice for setup on that, or even different parts I should go with, I'm all ears.
I've been an AMD guy for many moons now, and finally just decided I'm a big boy that makes big boy money and can spend the extra on something better.
I'm upgrading from my MSI K9A2-CF with a Phenom 9950 Black Edition and 8GB of some generic RAM. It was a decent enough setup. I don't overclock, and I don't care about too many other features. Overall, no complaints.
I am migrating most of my old hardware though. Hard drive is moving over, don't feel the urge to spend a boatload on SAS or high RPM drives. I've got a 1tb and a 500gb that are making the trip to fastville. I'm also moving over my DVDRW (Duh) and my Radeon HD5870 (Double duh.)
I'm getting the MSI P55-GD80 and the ol' 860. The price was right for me. Very very very right, considering I'm selling my "leftovers" and it won't cost me a cent after selling the stuff I'm not using anymore. I'm also going with some Ballistix DDR3 4x2GB sticks of RAM. I haven't looked at reviews, I'm too scared to. I'm getting a heck of a good deal on it, so I'm not hugely worried. I hope it works out.
I'll be dropping Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on there. I've got a Zalman 9900 ordered for cooling as this is my living room PC and I like having a fan that's reasonably quiet or just not on at all.
I'm looking at a third party cooler for the 5870, but so far I don't feel like it's needed it. At all.
Now, I have an old Ultra 800w ps that took a poopies, and they're sending me a modular replacement... But I'm thinking I'll keep my 600watt Antec in there since I'm not overclocking, really. It's served me well so far, and if I have problems, I have a backup, so that's no huge thing.
Just wanted to share that I'm no longer the AMD guy at work. Now I'm the guy that made everybody else upgrade because of system envy. If you have any advice for setup on that, or even different parts I should go with, I'm all ears.