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what a drag!
Wolfgang, this is a good rig. One of my old workmates has the one with FX-8150 and 1TB drive. Works and serves as family network server. Please notice, it's a geek family, they have at least 7 or 8 PC's on network. It's running 2008R2, never had problems, uptime ATM over 4 months (not counting necessary update reboots).
My opinion: go for it, it's worth every cent!
Kari
You guys are too funny. But I appreciate the offers for assembling a box. I actually have friends at my computer club that can see better than me and could put something together for me. I considered that when I saw a few nice packages on Newegg and TigerDirect. But then I thought it was too much trouble.
I did, however, already order a Crucial M4 SSD from Newegg for the upcoming new box. They had an instant rebate and a promo code so it costs only $104 - i could not resist.
I now found an option at Dell. I am not really a big Dell friend because I have a Dell box in Germany and I was not pleased to find that they had bolted the 2 HDDs to the chassis - no bays. But this XPS8300 looks pretty good and is only $800 with my 2 upgrades (2 USB3 ports and a Radeon graphics card). And the guy at Dell was a bit swifter. He found out that the mobo has a Sata III port (I hope he is right). I asked him to confirm that in an email.
PS: thanks Kari for the advice. But without a Sata III port I am not sure.
The guy from Dell came back with a chart that shows the mobo connectors. He highlighted a "Sata 3" port. But I am not sure whether that is really a Sata 3 or just the third port on the board because there is also a Sata 0, 1, 2. What do you guys think.
Sata 0, 1, 2, 3 just port numbering on that chart.
It could be anything.
I have 0-6. One of them is the on board e-Sata.
So that is useless for Gbs purposes.
Let me see if I can dig some info up for you. I'm good on the HP sight. Never took on Dell yet.
I found it!!!!!!!!!! Link above.
Scroll down to System Board Components.
11 and 13 on mobo layout are 6Gbs.
15 and 17 on mobo layout are 3Gbs.
You are quite welcome.
I love digging out info on HP. Dell is even easier. Well for me anyway.
Anytime my friend.
Mike
i7-2600 and 8GB of Ram it should do everything you want.
Everything I would at least.