I am looking to build a new desktop machine.
Reasons being, I am hopefully going to be starting my 70-290 mcsa exam and taking a couple of courses for photography as I have recently got a dslr.
My current system is amd 5600+, 4 x 1gb ddr2 pc6400, 90GB SSD, 2TB Sata, Radeon HD3600 Graphics card, BDR Optical drive and a standard HP case.
With my studies I am guessing I will need more Ram and maybe a bit more processing power to run server 2003 and a few machines using VM software. With the cost of DDR2 ram i thought iw ould just upgrade to DDR3 system board.
I have retail win7 32 and 64 discs so an OS isnt needed wither
Hopefully should have about ?300 maybe a bit more depending on how much I can flog my current machine for.
Any ideas as I have kept up with any of the new technology and who is leading the war between intel and amd.
Some stuff I have been looking at
G-Skill 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600Mhz RipjawsX Memory Kit.. | Ebuyer.com
Corsair Vengeance PC Memory 8GB 2x4GB DDR3 SDRAM DIMM 240-pin 1600MHz CL9 XMP | eBay
and possibly a new amd3 processor
All help much appreciated
Reasons being, I am hopefully going to be starting my 70-290 mcsa exam and taking a couple of courses for photography as I have recently got a dslr.
My current system is amd 5600+, 4 x 1gb ddr2 pc6400, 90GB SSD, 2TB Sata, Radeon HD3600 Graphics card, BDR Optical drive and a standard HP case.
With my studies I am guessing I will need more Ram and maybe a bit more processing power to run server 2003 and a few machines using VM software. With the cost of DDR2 ram i thought iw ould just upgrade to DDR3 system board.
I have retail win7 32 and 64 discs so an OS isnt needed wither
Hopefully should have about ?300 maybe a bit more depending on how much I can flog my current machine for.
Any ideas as I have kept up with any of the new technology and who is leading the war between intel and amd.
Some stuff I have been looking at
G-Skill 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600Mhz RipjawsX Memory Kit.. | Ebuyer.com
Corsair Vengeance PC Memory 8GB 2x4GB DDR3 SDRAM DIMM 240-pin 1600MHz CL9 XMP | eBay
and possibly a new amd3 processor
All help much appreciated
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