Soldato
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- 13 Sep 2010
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Hi guys, could use a little help speccing up a build for a friend. use will be mostly gaming, plus facebook, streaming, word processing etc.
Budget is a fixed £700, although any change could be used to upgrade their current system (as both will still be used) which is an i3 530 or 540, 4gb, 260GTX.
I am more familiar with intel, but have nothing against AMD, although power is a major consideration, and AFAIK the powerful AMD cpus are a bit hungry!
my initial thoughts were that £700 should be sufficient for an i5+8GB with a 7850 or 660. the need an OS as well, which puts a slight crimp on it, but no monitor/peripherals needed.
a K series processor would have course be nice, but if it helps the budget in other areas then we could drop it to a normal i5.....I'd rather keep a quad in there if possible though.
for the GPU, I have a 6950 2GB MSI TF3 lying about spare, which I could sell them cheap to save a bit.
apologies for the rambling prose, rushing to post before I leave the office!
Budget is a fixed £700, although any change could be used to upgrade their current system (as both will still be used) which is an i3 530 or 540, 4gb, 260GTX.
I am more familiar with intel, but have nothing against AMD, although power is a major consideration, and AFAIK the powerful AMD cpus are a bit hungry!
my initial thoughts were that £700 should be sufficient for an i5+8GB with a 7850 or 660. the need an OS as well, which puts a slight crimp on it, but no monitor/peripherals needed.
a K series processor would have course be nice, but if it helps the budget in other areas then we could drop it to a normal i5.....I'd rather keep a quad in there if possible though.
for the GPU, I have a 6950 2GB MSI TF3 lying about spare, which I could sell them cheap to save a bit.
apologies for the rambling prose, rushing to post before I leave the office!
