My main pc is coming up on 5 years old I think now. It's served me well and I don't really *need* an upgrade, but it's getting a bit slow when I really want to load up a ton of stuff on it.
It's a core 2 quad, Q9550, 8GB ram.
I don't want to spend the money to get top of the line. The new gen core i5's being quad core would probably suffice right?.
Just want to know what is recommended so later if memex has some boxing day/week sales I'll know if I should snag something or not.
I want at least 8GB of ram again, minimum quad core. Are ASUS motherboards still great? I don't need any fancy 7.1 audio, I usually use a headset. I'll need everything but a video card really, definitely want a new/bigger SSD. I'll re-use my this current box for an ESXi server likely.
I might want a new case, as with all the hard drives (5) in the antec 900 the front cages aren't in all the way as video cards are too long for it.
Any suggestions would be great.
Also...what do people use for a card reader? Swapped my monitor for newer one but lost the built in card reader. I imagine just a usb one?