"Rebuilding" an Old PC

[Jurwi]

Reliable mobo manufacturers included are Gigabyte, MSI (for AMD chips, at least), and Asus. Anyone willing to add to this list would be awesome.

Your PSU would have to be at least 600-700W to handle a 560, and I doubt they put those on computers in 2004 very frequently.

Add in EVGA, Intel, AsRock to the MoBo list =]

A quality 450W can already handle a 560 really, but yea if his PSU is from 2004 he's pretty surely gonna need a new one.

---------- Post added 2011-03-02 at 08:24 AM ----------

whats your reason for choosing to go with Core i5-2500K instead of core i7 2600, are you going to OC, as the k at the end of the 2500 means unlocked.

I hope that you misstyped one of them and don't actually think only difference between i5-2500K and i7-2600 is the unlocked core multiplier.

[Saithes]

Add in EVGA, Intel, AsRock to the MoBo list =]

A quality 450W can already handle a 560 really, but yea if his PSU is from 2004 he's pretty surely gonna need a new one.

---------- Post added 2011-03-02 at 08:24 AM ----------




I hope that you misstyped one of them and don't actually think only difference between i5-2500K and i7-2600 is the unlocked core multiplier.

Core i7 2600 has 2mb more L3 Cache and Hyperthreading.. That's really it lol. The 2500K has an unlocked turbo multiplier, not core.

[Jurwi]

Core i7 2600 has 2mb more L3 Cache and Hyperthreading.. That's really it lol. The 2500K has an unlocked turbo multiplier, not core.

Bigger L3 cache and HT can make massive difference to some people, you can't really say "that's really it".

[Saithes]

Bigger L3 cache and HT can make massive difference to some people, you can't really say "that's really it".

Oh of course. The extra L3 isn't a big feature, but the Hyperthreading can be depending on the intent. Considering he's on a Mac and has a Dell from 2004 I doubt he does anything intensive enough to require hyperthreading though

Either way in the end, the 2500K is a lot faster than most last gen i7's even with their hyperthreading. It only being 2 things is why I said "that's really it". If it were a comparison between say a i7 950 and 2500K or 2600, I'd name off the architecture differences, TDP, lower manufacturing tech, new memory controller and PCI-E controller.

[Jurwi]

Oi anyone with a Dell can be thinking of starting a new video rendering hobby!

[ayako]

The reason people tend to suggest the 2500(K) instead of 2600(K) is because most people who'd need a 2600K probably wouldn't need to ask for advice.