Upgrade Advice

[ikkitousen]

Planning to upgrade my PC this week and had a look on Scan today and just wanted some advice, will mainly use the system for Photoshop work.

Have my eye on :

2x - 4GB (2x2GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), CAS 5-5-5-18

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

Not sure what mobo to get, want to future proof the system if possible.

[staffsMike]

Not sure what mobo to get, want to future proof the system if possible.

It won't be possible. Socket change comes with i7 so you won't go any further on a motherboard you buy now.

Are you going to be overclocking?

[Will404]

That looks like it will run really quick. Vista 64 I persume, (are you sure that 8gb of ram is not an overkill??)
What's your budget for the Mobo, I have a p5q pro, and it runs very nicely, would recomend it.

You could go for a X48 chipset, something like this;
http://scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=876381 but it costs alot.

[ikkitousen]

Some of my Photoshop files are around 1-2gigs, so not overkill i hope! My Mac with 4gigs barely can handle it! Will be running Vista 64 for the upgrade.

Won't be overclocking and will be planning to spend around £400.

[Will404]

In that case (140ish memory, 180ish cpu, thats 320ish), i would go for a p5q e at 90ish, would add up to about 410. (all guesses for the prices

[staffsMike]

Memory should be around £100 - £110. You don't need to spend more than £55 and don't need any more than PC6400.

Q9550 will be £205 so something like the P5Q-E as suggested will be a nice board. Plenty of features and if you ever did want to overclock a bit, it has plenty of potential for that

[ikkitousen]

Brilliant thanks guys, it comes up to £430ish. Not bad at all!

[Will404]

Cool, what gpu do you have... you have got yourself a very powerful system there!

[ikkitousen]

I've got a 8800gt 320mb - which is abit dated now i think with how fast tech is moving!

Was thinking about the 10,000RPM drives for me to save the files faster but they are way too dear!

[killersuzuki]

I recently did a build and recommend the -
64bit DHX Corsair from scan

only a few quid more than the XMS2 ;]

[ikkitousen]

I recently did a build and recommend the -
64bit DHX Corsair from scan

only a few quid more than the XMS2 ;]

Have ordered already mate but thanks anyway