Hey guys, back in August of last year I built a gaming pc with the following specs
q6600 g0 @ 3.2ghz 8x400 at stock volts
gigabyte p35-dq6
gskill 2x2gb pc8000 ddr2 ram
evga 8800gt stock
thermalright ultra 120 extreme
pc power and cooling 750 psu
seagate 500gb
Anyways, I didn't end up gaming on the pc much and now that school has started this thing is offically an HTPC hooked up to my 40 inch samsung 1080p. I feel like much of my computer power is being wasted and was thinking about making a downgrade from my 8800gt to a 4670 w/ hdmi out so that the audio from my computer can come out of my tv speakers. The first thing i need to know is if that is the way it works and if it would be worth it to sell my 8800gt. I am mainly concerned about the audio over HDMI.
Second of all, since all I will being doing on this computer is surfing the internet, using ms office, and watching movies/tv shows, should I sell my q6600 and get an e5200, sell my thermalright ultra 120 ex, and maybe even downgrade my psu in exchange for a larger hard drive and/or maxing out my ram? By my estimation I could probably get $150 for the q6600 and the e5200 would be $85 so thats +$65. I could get
$100 out of my psu and get the corsair 450 watt at $55 so thats $45 more to work with. My truex120 is lapped so i figure i could get $45 out of it as well. so thats +$165 right there for ram/hd or other goodies.
I would like the computer to be usable for surfing/watching hd content for probably 3 or so years so i dont want to downgrade all that stuff if i will likely see a NOTICEABLE performance hit. To the best of my understanding, maxing out the RAM at 8gb should probably keep a setup like that going for quite some time. Again this will no longer be a gaming pc, the most i am going to ask of this machine is to occaisionally rip a dvd and i dont care how long that takes. Thanks for your time and opinions! Have a great day!
q6600 g0 @ 3.2ghz 8x400 at stock volts
gigabyte p35-dq6
gskill 2x2gb pc8000 ddr2 ram
evga 8800gt stock
thermalright ultra 120 extreme
pc power and cooling 750 psu
seagate 500gb
Anyways, I didn't end up gaming on the pc much and now that school has started this thing is offically an HTPC hooked up to my 40 inch samsung 1080p. I feel like much of my computer power is being wasted and was thinking about making a downgrade from my 8800gt to a 4670 w/ hdmi out so that the audio from my computer can come out of my tv speakers. The first thing i need to know is if that is the way it works and if it would be worth it to sell my 8800gt. I am mainly concerned about the audio over HDMI.
Second of all, since all I will being doing on this computer is surfing the internet, using ms office, and watching movies/tv shows, should I sell my q6600 and get an e5200, sell my thermalright ultra 120 ex, and maybe even downgrade my psu in exchange for a larger hard drive and/or maxing out my ram? By my estimation I could probably get $150 for the q6600 and the e5200 would be $85 so thats +$65. I could get
$100 out of my psu and get the corsair 450 watt at $55 so thats $45 more to work with. My truex120 is lapped so i figure i could get $45 out of it as well. so thats +$165 right there for ram/hd or other goodies.
I would like the computer to be usable for surfing/watching hd content for probably 3 or so years so i dont want to downgrade all that stuff if i will likely see a NOTICEABLE performance hit. To the best of my understanding, maxing out the RAM at 8gb should probably keep a setup like that going for quite some time. Again this will no longer be a gaming pc, the most i am going to ask of this machine is to occaisionally rip a dvd and i dont care how long that takes. Thanks for your time and opinions! Have a great day!
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