new rig AMD or Intel?

OTH,if you can get a better graphics card within the same budget with an AMD based system it would mean you would need to upgrade the graphics card less often.
 
 
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According to this article AMD Bulldozer should be on socket AM3:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2871/2

Unless Crossfire at PCI-E.0 16X/16X is important I would get the Gigabyte motherboard which does Crossfire at PCI-E 2.0 8X/8X. The Asus 890GX motherboards are also meant to be good and also are better for overclocking IIRC.
 
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Troezar said:
Personally I'd go 5850 whichever cpu I went for...
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sorted at last!

X2 Asus ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB £449.98 in crossfire

Asus Crosshair IV Formula AMD 890FX (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £169.99

OCZ Reaper 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 12800C7 (1600MHz) Dual-Channel (OCZ3RPR1600LV4GK) £129.99

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £127.98


£886.69


thanks for all your help guys ;)
 
Monster ninja said:
£886.69
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Monster ninja, you clearly got more money than sense! :p . . . Do you think a single HD5850 would be laggy? . . . do you need the most expensive AMD motherboard in the world? :D

I can't say spending £449.98 on a pair of Radeons is really needed? . . .wouldn't it be wiser to start off with a single card and see how you get on? . . . . the System-Core below is hot-to-trot and saves you £332.57 which could be put towards something more meaningful! :cool:

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Big.Wayne said:
Monster ninja, you clearly got more money than sense! :p . . . Do you think a single HD5850 would be laggy? . . . do you need the most expensive AMD motherboard in the world? :D

I can't say spending £449.98 on a pair of Radeons is really needed? . . .wouldn't it be wiser to start off with a single card and see how you get on? . . . . the System-Core below is hot-to-trot and saves you £332.57 which could be put towards something more meaningful! :cool:

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thanks for the help but i have to say that, that mobo looks so ugly also its not a 800 chipset! i might change it for a
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the crosshair has 4 16x lanes! is a great overclocker and its still £50 then an i7 but i will only get one 5850 for now or stick with my gtx 260 till i get her under water ;)...but just think of the power of two of them underwater and overclocked!!!!!!!!

and why not reaper ram? it has great cooling great for overclocking.

it may be the most expensive AMD motherboard in the world but it is the sexyest AMD motherboard in the world!:p
 
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Monster ninja said:
that mobo looks so ugly!
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Haha! :p . . . well theres no accounting for taste! . . . looks sweet to me and will get the job done in style!

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Monster ninja said:
i like ROG 4 16x lanes!
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Why? . . . buy what you wish but is there any reason for it?

Monster ninja said:
its still £50 then an i7
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Your just throwing money away like its going out of fashion? . . . the whole point of choosing AMD is to get great performance *while* saving money (i.e Bang-For-Buck) . . . not to choose a £160 motherboard mainly aimed at Benchmarkers and Techno-Nerds attempting a world-record overclock! :p

Monster ninja said:
i will only get one 5850 for now
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"only" a HD 5850, wow man your so lucky to be able to own a HD 5850, seriously that cards rocks da house, your very lucky! :)

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why not reaper ram?
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DDR3-1600 Cas 7 is awesome although not that much better than Cas 8 . . . I was thinking along the lines of DDR3 doesn't really run hot so why would you need big mama heatsinks? . . . they will most likely clash with a 3rd party CPU cooler should you get one . . . feel free to plurge £25 extra on something your not gonna notice . . . .

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it may be the most expensive AMD motherboard in the world but it is the sexyest AMD motherboard in the world!:p
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You know I have to agree with you here but are you seriously gonna pay for sex? :o

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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
According to this article AMD Bulldozer should be on socket AM3:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2871/2

Unless Crossfire at PCI-E.0 16X/16X is important I would get the Gigabyte motherboard which does Crossfire at PCI-E 2.0 8X/8X. The Asus 890GX motherboards are also meant to be good and also are better for overclocking IIRC.
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Could their roadmap have changed since '09? As much as I'm hoping it will be AM3 I have my doubts.
 
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Your just throwing money away like its going out of fashion? . . . the whole point of choosing AMD is to get great performance *while* saving money (i.e Bang-For-Buck) . . . not to choose a £160 motherboard mainly aimed at Benchmarkers and Techno-Nerds attempting a world-record overclock! :p
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i dont mean to sound rude or big headed but i am not sort of money so i would rather spend i bit more money. over the last couple of days i have really gone of intel :confused:



Big.Wayne said:
"only" a HD 5850, wow man your so lucky to be able to own a HD 5850, seriously that cards rocks da house, your very lucky! :)
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Big.Wayne said:
DDR3-1600 Cas 7 is awesome although not that much better than Cas 8 . . . I was thinking along the lines of DDR3 doesn't really run hot so why would you need big mama heatsinks? . . . they will most likely clash with a 3rd party CPU cooler should you get one . . . feel free to plurge £25 extra on something your not gonna notice . . . .
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i will be overclocking has high as i safely and stabley can ;) also i am now using a corsair H-50 for my aftermaket cooler

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You know I have to agree with you here but are you seriously gonna pay for sex? :o
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yes i am going to pay for sex.... sounds rather wrong :P for a good looking rig this time somthing that looks very cool i am also going to powercoat my case cold cathoids,ect :P dont get me wrong i have seen worse looking mobos but i dont like the colour of the PCB its self and you cant have 2 lines in 16x.. also its not an 800chipset with no sata 3/usb3 somthing i really wanted so its also not as future proof.


EDIT: sorry i dont know what happend to the quotes there??? but i will take in what you said and i will be reading a few of the lower end mobos and ram they dont have any reaper in stock yet so if they dont by next week i shall get the cheaper stuff
 
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Have you considered on of the 890GX based motherboards? They do Crossfire at PCI-E 2.0 8X/8X and this should be fine AFAIK!

Also the newer batches of the Samsung F3 have issues with the SB850 southbridge:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18148038

Samsung have provided a firmware update for affected drives though.
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damn it! i got my self a f3 about about november/december 2009 will they be affected to? i was going to get a ssd with this rig
 
Monster ninja said:
damn it! i got my self a f3 about about november/december 2009 will they be affected to? i was going to get a ssd with this rig
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IIRC,the issues was to do with SMART or something along those lines so earlier drives hopefully won't be affected.

OTH,the Asus Crosshair IV has as a single SATA 2.0 port running off a JMicron controller so you could use this port instead.
 
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