Hi,
I'm wanting to build a new computer soon, it'll be mainly for 3D Animation and Programming but also games. It's going to be my first build, and I'm pretty clueless about hardware so I'd appreciated any help.
Firstly, I'm wondering if now is a good time to buy, or is something better just around the corner? (I.e Q9450). I realise hardware is usually outdated very quickly, but I don't want to buy now and in a few days time something significantly better come out. I don't need to build right now but since at the moment I'm struggling with a AMD 3500+, nVidia 6200 & 768MB ram I'm in need of one reasonably soon, I could wait another month or so.
If now is a good time... can anyone check a small spec I was looking at:
Antec P182 Gunmetal Grey Super Mid Tower Case - No PSU
Corsair HX Series 520W Modular PSU - ATX12V v2.2 APF
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2
ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP AiLifestyle Series P35 Socket 775
Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB SATA II 7200RPM 16MB Cache - OEM x2
Point of View GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB GDDR3
Sony DRU-190S 20X DVD±RW DL & DVD-RAM Serial ATA - Retail Multi Bezel &
Total £785 incl p&p
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I'm would be hoping to OC the Q6600 to 3.2-3.4GHz but somebody told me (without a reason why) that the RAM I chose would be useless at overclocking any reasons why? Also is there a significant difference in 3Ds Max/Maya viewport speed between a low-end (£250 max) Quadro card and the 8800 GTS?
The build also needs to be as quiet as possible (under 100% load and idle), not sure if I've chosen the right components for that - this is really important to me, I had a good-but-noisy computer before and I never really felt like using it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sorry for the long first post I'm just wanting to get everything right before I buy, because I can't afford to buy again for quite some time
Thanks in advance.


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