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Originally Posted by shuvd  Hello all. Need help with assembling a PC.
Budget around 30k.
I need a moderately good rig. It must be stable and reliable. (I work from home)
Limited gaming, but the rig'll be on at least 15hrs/day.
I'm looking at Intel Q series.
I was suggested the ASUS P5KC by a TeamBHPian. But, I have a 8500GT which I don't want to junk.
I'm running Vista Home Premium 32bit 
If I have to junk the 8500, what options do I have? I would like to go for SLI/Cross Fire setup in the future.
Thanks in advance.. |
I'd suggest not going for SLI unless you want to SLI the highest end cards. I'm running 8800 Ultra SLI on a P5N32-E SLI motherboard and to tell you frankly NV chipsets for intel are absolutely terrible and not worth it.
The best board on the P35 chipset is the Abit IP35-Pro. Get an E8400 or a Q6600 (depending on whether you need quad core) and atleast 2GB of DDR2 800 or higher. Any decent name brand is okay. Since you are in kolkata, corsair would suit you as tirupati(the corsair disty) is in kolkata. Remember faster ram gives better performance than more ram unless you do something like 3D rendering.
Also please make sure you are running a good power supply. A corsair VX450 is pretty nice and costs under 4 grand. A generic PSU is a sure shot way of killing hardware early.