Sacristar
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't Ziet er naar uit dat ik ook een nieuwe harddisk ga mogen aanschaffen
Enige suggesties hier of maakt het niet echt uit? How big is too big? Want ik zie zo HDD's an 1.5 TB
'k Had dit origineel elders - op een engelstalig forum - gepost maar er kwam maar geen reaktie op dus repost ik het hier... in't engels dus, dat zal voor de meesten wel geen probleem vormen zeker?
't Ziet er naar uit dat ik ook een nieuwe harddisk ga mogen aanschaffen
Enige suggesties hier of maakt het niet echt uit? How big is too big? Want ik zie zo HDD's an 1.5 TB
'k Had dit origineel elders - op een engelstalig forum - gepost maar er kwam maar geen reaktie op dus repost ik het hier... in't engels dus, dat zal voor de meesten wel geen probleem vormen zeker?
It's been a few years since I frequented this site and World of Warcraft stole me away from the hardware scene. Where there once was a time when I would have known what to buy and what not to buy I now find myself in need of some advice on this matter. And where better to ask it then here amirite?
I am looking for a new graphics card and perhaps a whole new core system altogether. When making suggestions please keep a few things in mind:
- good overclocking potential while remaining stable for every day use. I don't need some motherboard that only runs good when it feels like it or a cpu that has a 1 in 6 chance of being a good oc'er.
- readily available. Not some exotic graphics card that I need to import from Malaysia and have to wait half a year for.
- reasonably priced. I know that's all relative but usually the latest and gratest also costs an arm and a leg while the next best thing is already a lot more, you guessed it, reasonably pricedAlso another downside of being out of the scene for so long is that I don't know what is considered reasonably priced anymore. 200-300 € for a good cpu or motherboard and 500€ for a top end vidcard is what I'd expect to see 4 years ago but now? I haven't got a clue...
Now first things first. The graphics card. I'm getting artifacts in games and thought the graphics card isn't necessarily the culprit it usually is. I don't have any spare hardware I can switch out to be sure but it's not the system memory, I know that much.
Performance wise I'm thinking along the lines of a next best thing type of card. Basically so I end up with something that is still very good now and for some time to come but not the priciest of the lot.
Unless offcourse there is a new line of cards coming up in a couple of months (preferably no more then 1-2 months, 4 months at the most) in wich case a low budget gaming card will do.
On a side note I'm currently using an old 20 pin Antec PSU since I blew my (also old) OCZ 24 pin up a few years ago and haven't bothered to try and fix it. I'm guessing this may also need upgrading?
Then on to the core components: Motherboard, CPU and Memory. Perhaps even a couple hard disks.
This isn't a must like the graphics card is but I do feel it's time I upgraded this old beasty. For those who wonder that's an AMD3000+ on an MSI K8N SLI Platinum with 2* 512MB TCCD and a 7900 GTX so yeah, óóóóóóóóóld!
With these components holding off a bit is no problem if something bigger and better is coming out soon. I've had a breef look around and a thread about the Phenom 2 X4 caught my eye? Though I hold my hart when I'm thinking of what it might cost ^^ Eh, I think I'm daydreaming again
*edit* Perhaps not, Techzine reports ~270€ for a Black Edition
PS: It's by no means a must but it would be nice if all the components were available from the same shop. It Would save some cash on shipping/driving around.
ma soit, mijn engels is redelijk goed dus ik heb alles wel kunnen vertalen.