Hey Guru,

Desktop Budget around 1.5k, my focus on heavy application loading not gaming, need a good processor, 32GB ram, good motherboard...and need other items which doesn't list below.

The items i got now :
- SSD -can used in desktop ?
- nvidia quadro 600 graphic card
- LCD

from limited budget, what is my best shoot ?

I got Samsung 470 256gb

Is it? It took out from dell machine

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Added on September 2, 2012, 1:05 amHmm,but i5 Processor seem a down side for me

I used notebook i7 620 before,with 4gb, I feel need more speed when it run in multiple application

By the way, ssd can put into desktop? Need to buy any device to make it work?

This post has been edited by alvincks: Sep 2 2012, 01:05 AM

Guru, someone offer me Xeon x5667 processor(exchange with ssd),which is 1336 socket, if I can find a suitable mobo for it, Would it be a good choice to go? Then my budget might Not need to stretch

Just curious, is SSD have significant speed different compare to used normal desktop hdd with 7200RPM ?

This post has been edited by alvincks: Sep 2 2012, 10:56 AM

Thanks all for the answer, sound like it good to have SSD for OS installation and secondary HDD for data storage, is that what you guys normally setup ?

Guys,
do you think there is a need to wait for Win8 come out since some hardware like graphic card might need to be compatible or probably mobo and processor too?

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Added on September 2, 2012, 7:37 pmBtw, thanks zerohunter and AssToast for reply my SSD doubt

This post has been edited by alvincks: Sep 2 2012, 07:37 PM

Guru,
Need some understanding of below :-

1. what is the different between Z68 vs h77 chipset ?
2. what is SLI/Crossfire about ?

Thanks in advance !

Thanks for great explanation zerohunter !!

Guru,
The motherboard trend will based on socket LGA2011 ?

Thanks !

Btw, would it be any new socket coming in soon (within 6 months) ? not sure if any change after win8 release ?

Guru,
If my budget around 2k, what is the expecting spec i can get ?
I also feel tempting on Alienware X51...

My wife's pc got some problem(no sure if power supply or mobo, sometimes can on sometimes not), she wan to share pc with me ...she used Photoshop quite frequent...

So I trying to get a I7 ...with 16GB RAM ...my budget can be stretch to 3k if needed...

I like the outlook of alienware even not a hardcord gamer..i play games like Football manager, fifa ....and i also need to used my machine for software development via VMware and java ...can someone point out should i go for clone or brand machine ?

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Added on September 19, 2012, 8:11 pmand of coz the spec I should go for ....My company notebook is I5 with 8gb, i feel slow in fact after run some application...also used I7-620M Dell notebook with 4 gb ram before, and i feel the need of more powerful machine

This post has been edited by alvincks: Sep 19 2012, 08:11 PM

what is the recommendation ?

Friend,
But XEON e3-1230 slower than i7-3770

from what i understand under the benckmark, it seem a laggard
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

Go for i7-3930 system with 16gb RAM, budget RM2.5k can get ?

Thank buddy! actually what is the main different btw XEON and normal i7 processor ?

Besides of integrate graphic card, any other differences ? for instance some function not support compare to I7 ...

This post has been edited by alvincks: Sep 20 2012, 07:36 PM

Thanks Chocobo

I saw some processor spec mentioned "up to 3.90 GHz" , clock speed = 3.4GHz ....does it means overclocking will go max to 3.9 Ghz ?

Hi Sifu,
Why the AMD processor which have more core and cache size, but the processor benchmark still below par of Intel processor which have less core and cache?

What is the technical reason behind?

for instance : fx8120 is slower than I7-2600
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AM...8120+Eight-Core

This post has been edited by alvincks: Sep 21 2012, 01:41 PM

Friend,
budget set to 3.5k, LCD not required...looking for I7 spec, what can i get ?
Thanks !

This post has been edited by alvincks: Sep 23 2012, 07:50 PM