I am selling off my current system (http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2193975) and have lost track of what is good these days.
> Intel E8400
> Gigabyte EP45-UD3R
> NVidia GTX 260
> Some good name brand 600 watt power supply
> 8GB
> 2x 256GB SSD (Boot)
> 2 x 2TB WD Black (Storage)
> Dell 30" + Viewsonic 24"
> 3 x Intel Dual Port PCI nic's
I'd like to keep an upgrade within reasonable (<500? is that even realistic). Probably keep the drives/video card, and swap in new mobo; cpu; ram (hopefully 16GB). I5-2500? Whats the ruckus these days on chipsets? I occasionally game (mostly TF2), but prodominantly do development work, or stage test environments in VMware (hence 16gb ram, and a quad core).
To toss something out there --
I5-2500 $209 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115073)
16GB $89 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233190)
Mobo ?
> Intel E8400
> Gigabyte EP45-UD3R
> NVidia GTX 260
> Some good name brand 600 watt power supply
> 8GB
> 2x 256GB SSD (Boot)
> 2 x 2TB WD Black (Storage)
> Dell 30" + Viewsonic 24"
> 3 x Intel Dual Port PCI nic's
I'd like to keep an upgrade within reasonable (<500? is that even realistic). Probably keep the drives/video card, and swap in new mobo; cpu; ram (hopefully 16GB). I5-2500? Whats the ruckus these days on chipsets? I occasionally game (mostly TF2), but prodominantly do development work, or stage test environments in VMware (hence 16gb ram, and a quad core).
To toss something out there --
I5-2500 $209 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115073)
16GB $89 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233190)
Mobo ?
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