Intel vs AMD - £750 Budget - Is AMD really better value for money?

GangsterSte said:
  • I roughly have £750 to spend solely on a machine
  • I don't have a case, power unit, GPU, MB, hard-drive, processor, CD-ROM, and RAM
  • I am on a budget, and a student loan I am looking for the best value for money
  • I'm saving my student loan for this system, so trying to make every single penny count
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  • £204.41 Under-Budget
  • Will meet your technical requirements with ease
  • AMD® Phenom™ II X6 Compatible
  • Sell GPU in 18 Months and buy a 2012 version
  • Enjoy your student union bar and babes!
 
jakesnake said:
the i5 is a good build aswell and is certainly 1 of the 2 options i think you should be looking at.

The only downsides i can see with i5 is that you wont be able to purchase a hexcore if the need for 1 arises in say 3/4 years time. also you seem to be more towards crossfire than SLI so id like to think crossfire is more suited to AMD boards.
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In 3-4 years time, we may or may not be taking advantage of all 6 cores (considering how long it took to take advantage of 2 cores, I doubt it), but sockets 1156 and 1366 both become obsolete next year with Sandy Bridge so you won't be able to upgrade, and in 3-4 years' time I can guarantee that even an i7 980X will be lagging a long way behind.

Big.Wayne's build is also a very good one to be considered if you want to save a bit of cash- you'll get better performance out of an i5, but you can play anything you want on the X4 955 no problem.
 
Just something to remember about future upgrades. All current sockets will be replaced within the next year. Intels socket 1156 will be replaced in the next couple of months by socket 1155. Although it's only one pin the new cpu's will not be backward compatible. Socket 1366 will be replaced by socket 2011 sometime in Q3 next year. AMD's new chips will require a AM3+ board when launched in Q2 next year. These will also not be backwards compatible with current sockets.
 
hybrid572 said:
In 3-4 years time, we may or may not be taking advantage of all 6 cores (considering how long it took to take advantage of 2 cores, I doubt it), but sockets 1156 and 1366 both become obsolete next year with Sandy Bridge so you won't be able to upgrade, and in 3-4 years' time I can guarantee that even an i7 980X will be lagging a long way behind.
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lol i think youve lost the plot.

not only have you contradicted yourself, but your "guarantee" is insane. :eek:

1366 at the end of next year may not be the latest family of cpus but it will still be highend and to say a 980X will be "lagging a long way behind" and obsolete,,, well im just gonna stop there and not get worked up.
 
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jakesnake said:
lol i think youve lost the plot.

not only have you contradicted yourself, but your "guarantee" is insane. :eek:

1366 at the end of next year may not be the latest family of cpus but it will still be highend and to say a 980X will be "lagging a long way behind" and obsolete,,, well im just gonna stop there and not get worked up.
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The 980X of 3-4 years ago would have been somewhere between an E6700 for $530 and an X6800 for over $1000. Compare one of these C2Ds to a modern i5, and there you go- in four years, they're lagging a long way behind.
 
money-wise why not get a tri-core x3 AMD black edition and overclock that instead of buying a X4..the chip is a beast and overclocks nicely.
 
Brummies said:
money-wise why not get a tri-core x3 AMD black edition and overclock that instead of buying a X4..the chip is a beast and overclocks nicely.
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Plus, x3s are x4s with one core disabled, so with the right motherboard there's every chance you could end up with 4 cores instead.
 
+1 for big.wayne's spec. Hex core and i7 is overkill and games won't be utilizing 6 cores for a while yet. Would really consider a build sound a phenom 955 quad core!
 
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