Budget Gaming PC Spec Help Please

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beejjacobs

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Right, on a very tight budget. Spec as following, any suggestions? Got a GPU (5850).

Spec:


YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z68A-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £72.98
1 x Intel Pentium G620 2.60GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £51.98
1 x Cooler Master GX 450W '80 Plus' Power Supply £35.98
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £30.98
1 x Cooler Master Elite 330 Midi Tower Case - Black £29.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £23.99
Total : £266.42 (includes shipping : £17.10).



OR:


YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3 Motherboard £66.98
1 x AMD Athlon II X3 Tri Core 455 3.30GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £61.99
1 x Cooler Master GX 450W '80 Plus' Power Supply £35.98
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £30.98
1 x Cooler Master Elite 330 Midi Tower Case - Black £29.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £23.99
Total : £270.43 (includes shipping : £17.10).



Which is better? In terms of cost effectiveness, upgradablility and performance! Ideally want to (try) and play BF3. Obviously not on high, but will the tri core be better?

Any suggestions please.

Thank you
 
This drive is a tiny bit cheaper but also quicker - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-252-SE

In terms of speed/effectiveness/upgrade ability the socket1155 system wins.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/406?vs=202

Its faster/less power hungry and you get Ivybridge support, the motherboard you picked for the AMD option isnt even AM3+




Also are you sure you dont want a Z68 board with Lucid+quicksync? - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-364-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990

Review - http://www.kitguru.net/components/m...-z68ap-d3-z68-review-bargain-buy-of-the-year/
 
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Well the board does have a HDMI output if you ever needed to use the Pentiums HD1000 built in GFX? suppose you had a failure of your graphics card? you can still use the PC.

Then theres also Lucid+Quicksync,


Lucid Virtu switches the dedicated graphics off/idle while doing simple task to conserve power.

Quicksync enables applications to use the onboard graphics core of the CPU to speed up encoding/rendering times.
 
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