Some help/advice on upgrading my PC

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Ok, hooray its that time of the year, yes christmas bonus time....so with some money to spend I decided to use it too upgrade my rig, the core2duo is starting to struggle, and the 9600gt SLI combo was arguably just not a good buy to start with
. But seeing that I've been out of the whats what in the market for the last eight months or so I thought I'll ask you guys to throw in some advice. Because 1) yes, I want to go i7, but is it really with worth the bucks vs core2quad? And i if so, which one of the massive line up is the best bang for bucks? And what about AMD, do they maybe have a cheaper alternative?
2)GPU, what should I go for Nvidia or Ati? Once again, dont want to piss out my whole bonus on an upgrade so best bang for bucks? Heard great things about the GTX295, but not sure..

I have roughly 10k to spend (I know its really not much, and I'm aware that to go i7 I will have to almost upgrade everything apart from PSU, HD's, So yeh, any advise whould be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance;)
 
we work for the same place :D (R10k upgrade budget for me 2)

I'm going i7. AMD is awesome, but time for i7. I still have my 8800GTS. Ati's DX11 card (R3k about for a decent one).

I'm just waiting for Nvidia to release DX11 card then I'll buy one (ati or nvidia whichever is best bang for buck).
 
Well you can get a phenom2 965 from sybaritic for 1800 now.

As for graphics card get the 5850.
 
oh, dumb question but if I buy radeon the "cuda" whould be out of the question right? Or does ATI have support for it or something similiar?
 
MadMailMan said:
You got a bonus????? Recession my a$$!!

Well done. ;)
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No, suppose not only thing I use cuda for currently is this one propriety codec I use. But suppose I can get along without it. This machine is basically purely going to be used as gaming/media center computer. And all I want is to be able to game all year long at 1680 x 1050 for atleast one year without having to tweak to much at the graphic's...
 
What hardware do you currently have?

Be specific, i.e. Case (atx/ m-atx), what PSU, what RAM etc

Then we can see what you can re-use and draw up a cool rig in your budget.

With R10k i'd go with;

(rough estimate of prices)

I7 920 R2600
ASUS P6T R2600 or MSI X58 Pro-e R2000
5850 R3500
3x2GB OCZ DDR3-1600 7-7-7-20 R1800

Assuming you have a good enough psu and big enough case
 
Silverlight said:
What hardware do you currently have?

Be specific, i.e. Case (atx/ m-atx), what PSU, what RAM etc

Then we can see what you can re-use and draw up a cool rig in your budget.

With R10k i'd go with;

(rough estimate of prices)

I7 920 R2600
ASUS P6T R2600 or MSI X58 Pro-e R2000
5850 R3500
3x2GB OCZ DDR3-1600 7-7-7-20 R1800

Assuming you have a good enough psu and big enough case
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Cool, have the following

1) 750w true power, power supply
2) 2 gig's of ddr2 ocx ram ( not sure of the speed though)
3) 2 x 750gb seagate hard drives for data and then a 250gb drive I used for the OS's installed
4) 2 X Nvidia 9600gt (1gb)
5) Full ATX case, bought it originally for my beloved 8800 Ultra which died on a terrible summer evening so pretty sure anything can fit into the case
 
cuda is tied to Nvidia yes...but i'm not sure how useful it really is. I've never missed it tbh. ATI has their equivalent but it isn't as well adopted as CUDA for encoding.
 
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