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I'm sure you get tons of these weekly, even daily, but I need some help! I haven't been caught up with technology for over atleast 3 years (my current CPU is a s939 AMD 3200+... that was considered good lol that should give you an idea).
Basically my PC use will be mixing and recording audio, general-day PC use and I wouldn't mind playin' some games (huge Unreal fan... and now that UT3 is comin' I've gotta' upgrade!).
This is what I was thinking but correct anything you personally would and let me know why... I'm not sure which is better these days Intel or AMD so if you could help me out there that'd be great too.
MOTHERBOARD: ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe ATX AM2 Nforce 570 SLI 2PCI-E16 2PCI-E1 3PCI SATA2 Sound GBLAN 1394 Motherboard
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Dual Core Processor Socket AM2 3.2GHZ 2X1MB 90NM Unlocked Retail Box *No HSF*
HSF: Zalman CNPS9500A LED Copper CPU Heatsink LGA775 AM2 92MM Fan 1350-2600RPM 18-27.5DBA W/ Blue LED
MEMORY: Corsair XMS2 TWIN2X2048-6400C4 2GB 2X1GB PC2-6400 DDR2-800 CL 4-4-4-12 240PIN Dual Channel Memory
HARD DRIVE: Western Digital Caviar RE16 320GB RAID Edition SATA2 7200RPM 16MB Hard Drive 5 Year MFR Warranty
VIDEO CARD: BFG GeForce 8800GTS OC2 580MHZ 320MB 1.7GHZ GDDR3 PCI-E Dual DVI-I HDTV HDCP DIRECTX10 Video Card
PSU: OCZ GameXStream 850W ATX12V 24PIN SLI Ready Active PFC ATX Power Supply 120MM Fans
Then there's the case and a couple other small things I'll get but the stuff above is what I need help with pickin'. That's a little over $1200 before taxes so let's say $1200 is the max. budget.
Oh yeah and what's the story with 32 bit and 64 bit Windows Vista? If you could tell me which to get that'd be good too... lol.
Thanks, any help is appreciated.
Basically my PC use will be mixing and recording audio, general-day PC use and I wouldn't mind playin' some games (huge Unreal fan... and now that UT3 is comin' I've gotta' upgrade!).
This is what I was thinking but correct anything you personally would and let me know why... I'm not sure which is better these days Intel or AMD so if you could help me out there that'd be great too.
MOTHERBOARD: ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe ATX AM2 Nforce 570 SLI 2PCI-E16 2PCI-E1 3PCI SATA2 Sound GBLAN 1394 Motherboard
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Dual Core Processor Socket AM2 3.2GHZ 2X1MB 90NM Unlocked Retail Box *No HSF*
HSF: Zalman CNPS9500A LED Copper CPU Heatsink LGA775 AM2 92MM Fan 1350-2600RPM 18-27.5DBA W/ Blue LED
MEMORY: Corsair XMS2 TWIN2X2048-6400C4 2GB 2X1GB PC2-6400 DDR2-800 CL 4-4-4-12 240PIN Dual Channel Memory
HARD DRIVE: Western Digital Caviar RE16 320GB RAID Edition SATA2 7200RPM 16MB Hard Drive 5 Year MFR Warranty
VIDEO CARD: BFG GeForce 8800GTS OC2 580MHZ 320MB 1.7GHZ GDDR3 PCI-E Dual DVI-I HDTV HDCP DIRECTX10 Video Card
PSU: OCZ GameXStream 850W ATX12V 24PIN SLI Ready Active PFC ATX Power Supply 120MM Fans
Then there's the case and a couple other small things I'll get but the stuff above is what I need help with pickin'. That's a little over $1200 before taxes so let's say $1200 is the max. budget.
Oh yeah and what's the story with 32 bit and 64 bit Windows Vista? If you could tell me which to get that'd be good too... lol.
Thanks, any help is appreciated.