First, some breif background: My motherboard went belly up, electronic burning smell and all. Power supply was suspect too.
So time to go shopping!
The new motherboard is the ASUS P5K Premium.
For the CPU I went with the Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600.
An important goal for me was this build was Virutal PC performance, and I am pleased to report it is doing just fine.
The WEI score is up to 5.3, broken down as follows:
| Processor |
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.40GHz |
5.9 |
| Memory (RAM) |
4.00 GB |
5.5 |
| Graphics |
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS |
5.9 |
| Gaming |
graphics 2303 MB Total available graphics memory |
5.3 |
| Primary hard disk |
107GB Free (149GB Total) |
5.6 |
The most important change for me was installing the 64 bit edition of Windows Vista Ultimate. So far I've not had any dramas with drivers and only the odd run-in with apps. For this I have started a new category on my blog: Who sucks at 64 bit.
It would be remis of me to not mention the great help that Kernel at KNK Professionals was. He went to great lengths to make sure I had the hardware that I needed. All while his wife was giving birth to their first baby! Highly recommended.