Nice updates, yeah makes sense to keep using what you have
Hey its easy to drawn into the latest and greatest GPU with the media coverage etc, but that 8800GT was king of the hill for medium large dollars just a few months ago so its not exactly a downgrade to go with that; also noise & heat: my 4870s are very much audible as the fans have to be idling at ~38% to keep the gpus cool, they are kind of annoying to me even with the door shut, plus the heat they throw out. So if the 4850s are like that then the noise would bug you.
These P35 P5s have a great rep, you cant go wrong there and some good deals for the discerning buyer
The P182 case is the newer model and its ~$5 cheaper. They are nice, don't think there's much difference between them, there's a review on silentpc.com which has the differences. You can remove the top mesh thing. I replaced the case fans and they are much quieter than the ones which came standard - but like I say I have quiet fans, psu, case design etc and noisy GPUs lol
and a while back I had to replace the psu in my old dell desktop, and got a a similar PSU to that model, but think it was 450watts (cant remember) but anyway it is basically silent - great brand.
(I needed to get a cheap extension ($2) for the 6pin motherboard power cable for my build, and I recommend a magnetic 'philips head' screw driver for picking up the screws which you will inevitably drop, and MX2 paste for the processor)
If you had been doing that build list a few months ago it would have been much more expensive, so your saving loads
Hey its easy to drawn into the latest and greatest GPU with the media coverage etc, but that 8800GT was king of the hill for medium large dollars just a few months ago so its not exactly a downgrade to go with that; also noise & heat: my 4870s are very much audible as the fans have to be idling at ~38% to keep the gpus cool, they are kind of annoying to me even with the door shut, plus the heat they throw out. So if the 4850s are like that then the noise would bug you.
These P35 P5s have a great rep, you cant go wrong there and some good deals for the discerning buyer
The P182 case is the newer model and its ~$5 cheaper. They are nice, don't think there's much difference between them, there's a review on silentpc.com which has the differences. You can remove the top mesh thing. I replaced the case fans and they are much quieter than the ones which came standard - but like I say I have quiet fans, psu, case design etc and noisy GPUs lol
and a while back I had to replace the psu in my old dell desktop, and got a a similar PSU to that model, but think it was 450watts (cant remember) but anyway it is basically silent - great brand.
(I needed to get a cheap extension ($2) for the 6pin motherboard power cable for my build, and I recommend a magnetic 'philips head' screw driver for picking up the screws which you will inevitably drop, and MX2 paste for the processor)
If you had been doing that build list a few months ago it would have been much more expensive, so your saving loads
can't wait for it all to arrive...
