So...I just reduced my main desktop computer to a smoking puddle of slag. (Zalman water cooling component failure...I should have kept a closer eye on things.) Anyway, I'm starting to shop for a new motherboard, CPU, memory & video card and I'm realizing that I've totally ignored all the desktop hardware developments for the past 4 years. i5? i7? Socket LGA 1366? 1156? None of that means anything to me!
I'd appreciate hearing what folks have to say in terms of desirable components these days. I've always stuck with Intel CPUs for my desktop machines...so there is a bias there. What this will be replacing: Asus P5W64 WS mobo, 4gigs RAM, 2.1ghz Core2 Quad CPU, Nvidia Quadro video. What the new setup will be doing: Dual booting Win7 64 / Ubuntu Lots & lots of CD ripping to flac, lots & lots of Handbrake encoding of video, everyday word processing & spreadsheet crunching, quickbooks pro accounting. No games, architectural drafting, 3D rendering, etc, so video requirements are slight. So..any recommendations (other than to not use H2O cooling?) -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88923 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
