Hello,
I am upgrading a 2 year old Dell XPS 8100
I want to replace everything eventually. So far I have upgraded the case, power supply, and Hard Drive.
I would like some opinions on what to keep/replace to make a decent gaming system.
Budget - $500 - $1000? Flexible
Resolution - at least 1080p
Games / Settings Desired - Would like to use it for games at high to maximum settings
Any other intensive software or special things you do (Frequent video encoding, 3D modeling, etc)
Country Not Really - Photoshop sometimes
Parts that can be reused:
Corsair TX 650w Power Supply
Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD
Corsair 600T White Graphite Case
Generic DVD/RW
Do you need an OS? I have both Windows 7 pro 64bit and Windows 8 Pro (currently running 8)
Do you need peripherals (e.g. monitor, mouse, keyboard, speakers, etc)? No, will eventually want a better monitor (currently HP 23" 1080p LCD
The rest of the system I would like to replace (my processor has been great, but I want to get away from the Dell Board):
CPU:
2.80 gigahertz Intel Core i7 860
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
8192 kilobyte tertiary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (4 total)
Hyper-threaded (8 total)
Board:
Board: Dell Inc. 0T568R A00
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Dell Inc. A05 07/08/2010
Need Hard Drive (Put my Dell Hard Drive in another computer)
GPU:
Radeon HD 5750 1GB
RAM:
8GB (2GB x 4) DDR3 PC3-10600 (non ECC)
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.