Looking for new gaming CPU - advice needed

[bakaaa]

Hi all

I'm thinking of getting this as an upgrade

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-042-OE
*OVERCLOCKED* Intel Core i3 530 Clarkdale 2.93GHz @ 4.00GHz / Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H Intel H55 Motherboard / Corsair 4GB DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz DDR3 Bundle

I will be mainly playing games on this pc, one of which is Battlefield bad company 2 wich recommends a quadcore. I3 530 is 2 core 4 thread.

Has anyone got this bundle or know if it will be ok for my neads? my videocard is BFG 260GTX

Thanks in advnace!

 

[SkodaMart]

Looks OK and good value for money. I think I would go for the i5 750 over this if you can afford the extra.
I am running an i5 750 @ 4.0 GHz with 2 x 260 GTX SLi and I am happy with it.
I don't think you will be disappointed with the above however.

 

[Marine-RX179]

Looks OK and good value for money. I think I would go for the i5 750 over this if you can afford the extra.
I am running an i5 750 @ 4.0 GHz with 2 x 260 GTX SLi and I am happy with it.
I don't think you will be disappointed with the above however.

I agree. But the problem is...although we know that the the CPU of i5 750 is just priced around £50 more than i3 530, the bundles however is not the case...as the i5 750 [email protected] bundle that OCUK is selling is around £470, making that seem poor value for money since it is like £100 over the i3 530 [email protected] bundles...

But too be fair, i3 530 would still performance very well. At just overclock to 3.5GHz, it is already deliver around the same frame rate as E8400 at 4.25GHz. Overclock it further to around 4GHz and it will produce better performance than all of the E8000 range at similar frequency.

 

[SkodaMart]

I agree. But the problem is...although we know that the the CPU of i5 750 is just priced around £50 more than i3 530, the bundles however is not the case...as the i5 750 [email protected] bundle that OCUK is selling is around £470, making that seem poor value for money since it is like £100 over the i3 530 [email protected] bundles...

But too be fair, i3 530 would still performance very well. At just overclock to 3.5GHz, it is already deliver around the same frame rate as E8400 at 4.25GHz. Overclock it further to around 4GHz and it will produce better performance than all of the E8000 range at similar frequency.

The secret then is to buy your own components, do some research and overclock it yourself.

 

[arknor]

overclocking is easy and pretty much garunteed to hit 4ghz.

you can find settings for pretty much all the popular boards that should give you an easy overclock.

i'd for for the i5 750 tbh its much faster thean the other socket 1165 i3/i5 cpus

 

[Marine-RX179]

The secret then is to buy your own components, do some research and overclock it yourself.

I know, but the reason why overclocked bundles sell so well is because many people still not comfortable with playing around with bios setting and worry they might fry their components.

You have to remember..although overclocking seems like a walk in the park to us, we are only representing a very small fraction of the entire PC users population Not everyone who can build a system would know how to overclock...not until they try and learn it for the first time