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| 810020 | 2009-09-14 03:13:00 | Hi all A few months ago I asked for some advice about buying a new PC. At the time that was still a few months away from happening (original post here (forums.pcworld.co.nz)) but it still gave me a really good idea of what was out there at that time. Well, now the few months has passed, I'm pretty much ready now to buy (in the next few weeks). I will be in Singapore then, on a 18month relocation for work, so will buy the components there. But I'd still like everyone's advice here about good/bad components. I was wondering if peoples thoughts had changed since their original advice, seeing as two months is a long time in the PC hardware world! Here were my original requirements copied from the first post: My requirements are: - Will be doing audio and some video editing - Will need lots of storage space, as I have a number of audio concert recordings I want to store on HD in .wav format (but, it doesn't matter if these are stored on seperate external drive or not) - Need something that will have a good quality sound card capable of recording line-in signals with excellent good quality. (Also, quite like in the future to experiment with plugging my guitar into the PC and recording some stuff that way. I'm just an amateur though) - Also quite like to play games on it. Don't necessarily need the top of the range, absolute best performance, but something that will be able to comfortable handle modern games The consensus last time seemed to be something like: CPU: Q9400 or i7 RAM: 4gb Corsair DDR2 1066 HDD: 2x1TB Western Digitals in RAID1 HDD2: 1x500gb WD DVD: Asus/Liteon GFX: 4870 MOBO: P5Q Pro PSU: Corsair HX620 620W Modular Power Supply OS: Win 7 64bit Any different opinions now?? Thanks :) |
Chikara (5139) | ||
| 810021 | 2009-09-14 03:27:00 | i5 rather than an i7. The slowest i5 is faster than the i7 920.... You could swap for a 4890....but other then that I can't see any other changes you should make... Get any i5 mobo, Asus or Gigabyte.. Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 810022 | 2009-09-14 04:23:00 | Is your 500Gb WD drive for your O/S? You could look at putting a smaller Raptor drive in there instead, or even an Intel SSD? And if you need a lot of storage, a NAS box connected by eSATA might be an option too? |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 810023 | 2009-09-14 04:37:00 | Is your 500Gb WD drive for your O/S? You could look at putting a smaller Raptor drive in there instead, or even an Intel SSD? And if you need a lot of storage, a NAS box connected by eSATA might be an option too? Yeah, 500GB would be for OS plus other installed applications. The other HD's in RAID would be purely for data. I don't know if SSD's are cheap enough yet for the benefit of them, and the capacity is still quite low. I won't be doing any hardcore gaming so I'm not too worried about squeezing the last fractions of seconds out of it. Maybe that can be a future upgrade when prices drop more. Re the NAS, what would be the pros / cons of that, compared to the HD's in RAID setup? I'm thinking the RAID setup would be quicker and more convinient, and also everything is automatically backed up..what would the advantages of NAS be??? |
Chikara (5139) | ||
| 810024 | 2009-09-14 04:55:00 | Is your 500Gb WD drive for your O/S? You could look at putting a smaller Raptor drive in there instead, or even an Intel SSD? And if you need a lot of storage, a NAS box connected by eSATA might be an option too? Yeah, I would of said the same....nice 4 drive radi 5 nas box, with print servers etc....ooooh |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 810025 | 2009-09-14 04:58:00 | GFX: 4870 ASUS or Gigabyte. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 810026 | 2009-09-14 05:21:00 | Yeah, I would of said the same....nice 4 drive radi 5 nas box, with print servers etc....ooooh So what would the cost of NAS be compared to 2xHD setup in RAID? And the advantages?? I've not used NAS before so don't really know the pros and cons of it... |
Chikara (5139) | ||
| 810027 | 2009-09-14 05:38:00 | i5 rather than an i7. The slowest i5 is faster than the i7 920.... You could swap for a 4890....but other then that I can't see any other changes you should make... Get any i5 mobo, Asus or Gigabyte.. Blam Blam, was just looking at some prices on a Singapore website... Core i5 - 750 2.66Ghz 1333/8M LGA1156 SGD $324 It's the only i5 listed. How do you reckon that one would go? |
Chikara (5139) | ||
| 810028 | 2009-09-14 09:30:00 | Blam , was just looking at some prices on a Singapore website... Core i5 - 750 2.66Ghz 1333/8M LGA1156 SGD $324 It's the only i5 listed. How do you reckon that one would go? It would suit you perfectly. Should handle anything you throw at it easily! So what would the cost of NAS be compared to 2xHD setup in RAID? And the advantages?? I've not used NAS before so don't really know the pros and cons of it... NAS=Network attached storage. It'll mean you'll be able to have everything in a central location, and if you have other PCs/Laptops they'll be able to accesss the data on it. Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 810029 | 2009-09-14 09:45:00 | NAS=Network attached storage. It'll mean you'll be able to have everything in a central location, and if you have other PCs/Laptops they'll be able to accesss the data on it. Blam Once I move in, it will probably just be me in my apartment, at least initially.. so only one PC needs to access the data. Would you still suggest NAS over the traditional set-up? Why?? |
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