Official GIGABYTE Forum

What New build

Graceman

  • 200
  • 1
What New build
« on: July 22, 2012, 08:02:14 pm »
I have a challenge for you all.
What would you suggest as a new build I do not do gaming I run office programs and accounting programs and some BBC Iplayer activity.

Currently I have a GA-X58a-Ud3r ver 1.0 MB with Intel I7/930 cpu.
6gB Ram and ASUS 4350Grphics card running two monitors of 1280 x 1024 resolution Currently a 240 GB Hdd is plenty adequate for my need.

I now find I can consider an upgrade but what MB?
I want a Solid state Hdd like the Ocz revo Pcie 240Gb and would not need any Hdd unless it was just storage I have a 250 Gb new unused seagate barracuda that can handle that.
But what I want is speed.
I would even be happy using existing graphics card.
But the real question is what MB what Chip and What Opsys Windows 8 launches soon?
Should I look as some legacy boards & chips for a reasonable price to performance but again what?

Would welcome ideas so I can research as I am lost with the new range of sockets available.
Antec NSK4000B II Midi Tower Case
Gigabyte G1 Sniper M3 rv 1.0
I7/3770K
16Gb Csair Vengance Ram
Corsair CMPSU-430CXV2UK PSU  CX430V2  
OCZ RVD3-FHPX4-240G 240GB RevoDrive3 PCI-E SSD

Alcool DC-LT 12v Ceramic Pump
Alcool Rvoir for DC-LT Pump
Alcool DC-LT Pump Top
EK Supremacy CSQ Univ Full

Graceman

  • 200
  • 1
Re: What New build
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2012, 08:28:59 pm »
Has no one any input on this, or suggestions as to best direction ?
Antec NSK4000B II Midi Tower Case
Gigabyte G1 Sniper M3 rv 1.0
I7/3770K
16Gb Csair Vengance Ram
Corsair CMPSU-430CXV2UK PSU  CX430V2  
OCZ RVD3-FHPX4-240G 240GB RevoDrive3 PCI-E SSD

Alcool DC-LT 12v Ceramic Pump
Alcool Rvoir for DC-LT Pump
Alcool DC-LT Pump Top
EK Supremacy CSQ Univ Full

Dark Mantis

  • *
  • 18405
  • 414
  • 10typesofpeopleoneswhoknow binaryandoneswhodont
    • Dark Mantis
Re: What New build
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2012, 01:19:26 pm »
Hi

I am at a loss of your motive for upgrading seeing as you say yopu don't do any heavy duty use like gaming or large graphics manipulation. The system you have got should be more than enough power to do what you want. Maybe just buy a nice new SSD with as large a size as possible, from your post I would suggest a 256GB Crucial M4 or like you mentioned a Revo card. It will make your system seem a lot faster doing just about everything. Possibly even a new graphics card too.
« Last Edit: August 21, 2012, 01:21:20 pm by Dark Mantis »
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy

Graceman

  • 200
  • 1
Re: What New build
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2012, 04:55:00 pm »
Its because I have the money available now and that I read the X58 system is being stopped and new CPU & socket types are available.
I am looking to buy OCZ Revo SSD Pcie drive unless you suggest anything better, and suspect it will not be seen by current Board and Bios so thought why not star new with new MB and PCIE only 240GB version, and no other hard drives.

It was a competition win and I have Amazon vouchers to spend And best use was to upgrade. and have a new Windows 8 system.

I still get odd hangs or freezes that seem to be related to HD activity. So removing Spinning HDD drives would help well I thought it might help.
Antec NSK4000B II Midi Tower Case
Gigabyte G1 Sniper M3 rv 1.0
I7/3770K
16Gb Csair Vengance Ram
Corsair CMPSU-430CXV2UK PSU  CX430V2  
OCZ RVD3-FHPX4-240G 240GB RevoDrive3 PCI-E SSD

Alcool DC-LT 12v Ceramic Pump
Alcool Rvoir for DC-LT Pump
Alcool DC-LT Pump Top
EK Supremacy CSQ Univ Full