Hey guys, long time lurker, first time poster...
I've been looking at the builds posted on the main page and I'm looking at replacing my current setup.
Budget
I'm looking around £1,000-£1,200
Resolution
I use 2 monitors
Main = 1920 x 1080 Secondary = 1400 x 900
Games / Settings Desired
At the moment I only really play League of Legends, will probably play Mists of Pandera and some more modern games like BF3 / Skyrim
Any other intensive software or special things you do (Frequent video encoding, 3D modeling, etc)
I'll be using Adobe AfterEffects, aswell as Sony Vegas, Photoshop, Maya/3DSMax etc. I will also be doing lots in Cubase which I will get to later..
Country
United Kingdom
Parts that can be reused
Currently my system consists of...
CPU: Core Duo E6850 3.0ghrz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Ram: 3gb
I also use 2 sound cards and on board occasionally..
One card is a very old SB Audigy II? comes with a big mixer type ASIO which I can plug my xbox 360 into and have the sound output through my pc
I also have another cheap soundcard plugged in (ASUS Xonar DS)
The mixture of these cards and on-board have caused lotssss of problems in cubase and crazy latency for recording guitars etc..
I also have 2 500gb HD's which I can re-use
I was thinking perhaps a mix between the 2 builds, narwhale and unicorn, posted by 'chaud' a while back (Cant post links yet but it's on page 4 currently)
Things I would like
Ideally I would like an SSD as the main drive for those insane speeds, was also thinking 8gb+ ram.
I've read in this situation that the i7 2600k would be best oc'd for the rendering etc as well as games (will also need a decent cooler to OC that bad boy )
I have no idea what to do with the sound, being able to record guitar as latency free as possible would be great, as well as a way to plug the xbox into the PC. (That part doesn't have to be straight away as I have headphones I can use to plug in the back of the xbox for now )
Anyway I hope that's enough information,
Many Thanks!