Building new computer, whats hot!? Options

[Hanyo]

Hey everyone,

Its been a while since i have built a new computer. I'm still stuck in the mind set that the AMD xp2500 barton is king. But obviously that is way way out of date.

So my current research shows is, the intel price cut will happen on july 22, so i'm hoping to shoot for the intel q6600 or q6700 quad core cpu.

I plan on runing windows vista home premium, and windows one care. I know I know, its gonna be buggy and everything, but i don;t want to waste money buying xp and changing over to vista. should i go 32bit or 64bit? hmmmmm...

With that all said and done, I will be using this machine as hardcore photoshoper/websurfer/storage server/ and very light computer gamer. So video card power does not have a super importance.


I really need your advice on compatitible motherboards. ddr2? ddr3?

any help is appreciated.

[creis]

if your a light gamer, you dont need much. photoshop can take advantage of some extra ram and cpu power but does not need much. also photoshop has known compatability issues with vista I dont recomend vista at all, not untill SP1. its not worth the trouble, xp is cheap when bought with hardware (www.newegg.com) and you wont have trouble with it plus when compared together xp and vista there both about the same benchmark at the moment so its no gain to get vista. I listed below what I would get in your situation. quad core is deff not worth it same with ddr3. x64 is worth it.

I would get pretty much what I have now,
ASUS A8N-E mobo
AMD 4400 x64 x2
corsair 1 gig sticks (2 gigs total)
Nvidea 7800 GT

deff nothing special (any more) but decent power reliable hardware and cheap.


I'm up2 grading to
ASUS SLI(unsure what mobo but I always get asus because there great for overclocking)
AMD 6000 x64 x6
4 gigs corsair ram
duel 7800 GTX
(all watercooled components)
WD 120gig SATA HD (x4)

This post has been edited by creis: Jun 21, 2007 - 1:02 AM