melkor1702
04-15-2011, 12:59 AM
Hi Everyone,
Looking to upgrade from my 4-5 year old desktop to something newer and fingers crossed better. Haven't had too many issues with the last one which is good but a change of circumstances has allowed me to consider something newer.
So as I am a newb/noob when it comes to more recent hardware developments I thought I would ask advice from the friendly tech-heads here. My usage will mostly be gaming (mostly DDO but some others) some small scale video/music/photo encoding/processing and the usual sort of mix of home use that most smart phones can handle.
The specs I'm looking at initially is as follows
Intel Core i5 760 Processor LGA1156 2.8GHz 8MB Cache CPU
Asus P7H55-M LX LGA1156 2DDR3 GLAN 1PCIEx16 mATX
Kingston 4GB(2 X 2GB) DDR3-1333MHZ
Samsung 1TB Spinpoint F3 SATA II 7200RPM 32M
Gigabyte HD6870 1G OC GDDR5 PCIE HDMI DP
Viewsonic VX2238WM-LED 21.5" 5ms Black LED with Speakers
LG H22NS50 SATA 22X+- Super Multi DVDR Black with Software
Thermaltake V5 LanParty Black Edition w Reinforced Handle NO PSU
Thermaltake Litepower 600W ATX PSU
Microsoft Digital Media Desktop 3000 Keyboard
Microsoft Windows 7 Pro 64bit OEM
I am considering upgrading immediately to 8Gb of RAM but aside from that is there anything glaringly obvious that I should look into/avoid.
Thanks
Looking to upgrade from my 4-5 year old desktop to something newer and fingers crossed better. Haven't had too many issues with the last one which is good but a change of circumstances has allowed me to consider something newer.
So as I am a newb/noob when it comes to more recent hardware developments I thought I would ask advice from the friendly tech-heads here. My usage will mostly be gaming (mostly DDO but some others) some small scale video/music/photo encoding/processing and the usual sort of mix of home use that most smart phones can handle.
The specs I'm looking at initially is as follows
Intel Core i5 760 Processor LGA1156 2.8GHz 8MB Cache CPU
Asus P7H55-M LX LGA1156 2DDR3 GLAN 1PCIEx16 mATX
Kingston 4GB(2 X 2GB) DDR3-1333MHZ
Samsung 1TB Spinpoint F3 SATA II 7200RPM 32M
Gigabyte HD6870 1G OC GDDR5 PCIE HDMI DP
Viewsonic VX2238WM-LED 21.5" 5ms Black LED with Speakers
LG H22NS50 SATA 22X+- Super Multi DVDR Black with Software
Thermaltake V5 LanParty Black Edition w Reinforced Handle NO PSU
Thermaltake Litepower 600W ATX PSU
Microsoft Digital Media Desktop 3000 Keyboard
Microsoft Windows 7 Pro 64bit OEM
I am considering upgrading immediately to 8Gb of RAM but aside from that is there anything glaringly obvious that I should look into/avoid.
Thanks