Afternoon all,
I'm looking for a new CPU/Motherboard/RAM combination, so any help would be very much appreciated!
Requirements
- Worthwhile upgrade over a Q6600 running at 3.1ghz
- Bang for buck (I don't mind overclocking - it'll be running under a Corsair H80 Watercooler)
- Intel would be my preference, though I've no idea of the AMD offerings currently
- I'll be sticking with my HD4850 for the minute, though I realise that will be the bottleneck (I'll be upgrading later!)
- No need for integrated graphics (
AFAIK there are Xeon variants of the i5s that lack the integrated graphics? are they better value?)
- 8gb of RAM should be enough, I would have thought?
Budget hasn't been set, but this is unexpected (read I screwed up!), so I'm focusing on bang for buck, but
at the same time don't want to shoot myself in the foot and it be a minimal upgrade...