Hey all. I'm putting together my first major system upgrade since 2002 soon and am looking to order this weekend. I was going to hold off a little longer, but I started by buying a Dell 2407wfp (which I love) and now I need the system to back it up 
My current rig is an Athlon XP 2600+, ASUS A7N8x Deluxe, Radeon 9700 Pro, 1Gb DDR, etc. I use it for encoding movies/music, playing games, photoshop, and CAD.
I'm looking to put together:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (but I may have to get an OEM E6300 and overclock the crap out of it, since the E6600 isn't really available for a reasonable price. In that case, can you recommend a heatsink as well?)
Motherboard: What are my options here? I'm hoping to spend <$200. I'd like a couple of ATA connectors for legacy drives, and ideally firewire. What has the best price/performance?
Video: As I stated, I have a Dell 24" LCD which I'm running at native resolution. I know there are those new Crossfires coming out... I'm hoping to only spend about $300-350 though (which rules out an Nvidia GX2.)
Ram: 2Gb DDR2. There are a ton on ZipZoomFly & NewEgg that fall into the $120-$180 price range...I have no idea really what is the best deal or best performance-wise. What would you choose?
Power Supply: I'm reusing my tried and true old tower case, but I figure that I need to replace my power supply considering a) it is only 300W and b) it has over 60,000 hours on it at this point What can you recommend? In addition to the above Ram, CPU, and video, the box will have 4 hard drives, an optical drive, a sound card, plus a couple of fans. Up to $100 budget, less preferred. Quiet a bonus.
My current rig is an Athlon XP 2600+, ASUS A7N8x Deluxe, Radeon 9700 Pro, 1Gb DDR, etc. I use it for encoding movies/music, playing games, photoshop, and CAD.
I'm looking to put together:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (but I may have to get an OEM E6300 and overclock the crap out of it, since the E6600 isn't really available for a reasonable price. In that case, can you recommend a heatsink as well?)
Motherboard: What are my options here? I'm hoping to spend <$200. I'd like a couple of ATA connectors for legacy drives, and ideally firewire. What has the best price/performance?
Video: As I stated, I have a Dell 24" LCD which I'm running at native resolution. I know there are those new Crossfires coming out... I'm hoping to only spend about $300-350 though (which rules out an Nvidia GX2.)
Ram: 2Gb DDR2. There are a ton on ZipZoomFly & NewEgg that fall into the $120-$180 price range...I have no idea really what is the best deal or best performance-wise. What would you choose?
Power Supply: I'm reusing my tried and true old tower case, but I figure that I need to replace my power supply considering a) it is only 300W and b) it has over 60,000 hours on it at this point
What can you recommend? In addition to the above Ram, CPU, and video, the box will have 4 hard drives, an optical drive, a sound card, plus a couple of fans. Up to $100 budget, less preferred. Quiet a bonus.
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