After the help you gurus gave me to build my awesome rig, I thought you might be able to help my old man out, with his new machine he wishes to build Thus far we have: CPU: AMD Phenom II 1090t GPU: ASUS HD 5850 Mobo: ASUS M4A89GTD-Pro RAM: Patriot 1600mhz 8Gig PSU: Antec Signature SG 850 Any advice, tips etc would be helpful thank you EDIT- He does alot of video and music encoding, photoshopping, some gaming and music recording.
Take a look at my rig and buy a new mobo *edit* I personally am bias with asus, had 3 mobos and a videocard take a dive and asus was difficult with giving me rma numbers and returning a mobo. I do though have a stellar track record with gigabyte, their motherboards in particular have been a pleasure.
i'll prolly get called a troll but its the other way round for me. i love giga but have had problems with earier mobo's. where as with asus (who i didnt like at first) ive had no issues with at all. in fact i only buy asus mobo's now, mainly because of the bios. its just brillianty done and easy to navigate.
It looks like you are on the right track already. If the money is in the budget I would get a SSD for the OS and then a 1 terrabyte HDD for storing all the good stuff.
since he does a lot of video and music ecoding etc wouldnt it be best to give him a quad instead. unless that model unlocks.
I would have thought a 6 core cpu would be even better than a quad at those things. What do you mean by 'unlocks'? It seems thus far hes chosen well I've suggested he might wanna get a new case too cos the 5850 is a long card. You've all been very helpful, but please continue, hes got time while he waits for his tax return
Solid choices so far. With no real remaining budget or purchase places to get an idea of how to split the money, it's hard to put down suggestions for the other parts. Some ideas to complete the build... Prices are USD; I'm not familiar with Australian computer stores. Hard drives: multiple Samsung SpinPoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB drives - usually ~$70 USD a piece Case: depending on your budget: CM RC-690/RC-690 II - usually around $60; CM HAF 922 - usually around $90; CM HAF 932 - around $130 Optical drive: depending on usage: DVD burner (Asus, LG, and Lite-On have strong offerings) - $20; Blu-ray burner (LG and Lite-On seem good for the price) - $100 Sound card: Asus Xonar D2X - $180; Xonar DX - $60-80 (if he can't afford the D2X) An SSD is an idea given the kind of hardware being put into this bulid, but that money could be better spent on other hardware since modern magnetic hard drives are still plenty fast. Also, consider a third-party CPU cooler since that unlocked Phenom II X6 can clock pretty high. The CM Hyper 212 Plus, Xigmatek HD-S1283, Tuniq Tower, Thermalright TRUE, Zalman CNPS10X Flex, and Noctua NH-D14 (plus AM3 backplate) are among the best contenders at each price point.
Both ASUS and GIGABYTE are highly recommended from me. The quotation you have looks great as is. deltatux
Perfect setup for the applications you mentioned ( in that order). 6 core CPUs are good at Multimedia stuff.
I thank you all very much for your input, its been helpful My old man was very happy with the setup, but hes decided to get a new Gibson guitar instead. One must follow their passions I guess
