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I've said this before.
You'd be much better off not buying random tat and just focusing on buying just one good set up.
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is Ghost Recon Expected to Stutter on my system or just how it is?
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I've said this before.
You'd be much better off not buying random tat and just focusing on buying just one good set up.
Yeah I know, but I’m fussy and people sell crap spec for stupid money and not always good spec part bundles for fair price either, So i usually buy fairly cheap or a certain generation, add what I’ve already got to it then buy a better processor for example.
Normally I have a system with a pretty decent cpu but crap graphics, this time round it’s the opposite, now while I could probably find a 1155 socket i5 build for a certain amount, I do feel buying the next gen up but with a dual core better spent because regardless of hyper threading or not, the socket will last longer.
I only got my 1st gen i3 because it cost me £20 for all but a hard drive, because it had start up issues which a change of ram had fixed it for the time being. Mean I wouldn’t really want to spend £75 on what is a Lenovo ThinkCentre tower just to get the 1150 socket.
Normally I have a system with a pretty decent cpu but crap graphics, this time round it’s the opposite, now while I could probably find a 1155 socket i5 build for a certain amount, I do feel buying the next gen up but with a dual core better spent because regardless of hyper threading or not, the socket will last longer.
I only got my 1st gen i3 because it cost me £20 for all but a hard drive, because it had start up issues which a change of ram had fixed it for the time being. Mean I wouldn’t really want to spend £75 on what is a Lenovo ThinkCentre tower just to get the 1150 socket.
Yup. All this talk of cheap hardware, you're going to be in this exact same position in 6-12 months time. At this point, 4 recent generation cores is an absolute minimum. I'm talking 4690 level of performance and even then you're eventually going to have to upgrade.
If you bought a B350 board with 4 DIMM slots, 2x4GB sticks of DDR4 and a Ryzen 2600x you'll be set until 2020 and beyond. None of this fannying around with used ancient hardware. Even a 2nd hand 1600 will be ~£100 and will easily do you for a few years.
If money is tight then find a decent 0% finance option and spread the cost, depending on how good you are with money. I do it all the time and have no problems paying the amount off within the time limit.
Edit - Just checked the Bay and I can get a B350 board, Ryzen 1600 and 8GB of memory for £260. That's 6 cores 12 threads with future socket support for under £300.
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You bought 1st gen i3 540 CPU for £20???
You need to stop being too fussy buy CPU at stupid prices you thought price was fairly cheap and cut out annual losses because i3 540 CPUs is available to buy for just only £5!
I agreed with others that you better off not buy cheap random OEM brands which has very few CPU supports than retail motherboards every year and buy only 1 motherboard that will last you 5 to 10 years with 54W TDP Coffee Lake Celeron G4900 that is faster and has lower power consumption than 73W TDP i3 540 for a start then a year later or 2 you could upgrade Intel CPU to i5 8400 or i7 8600 like I did with Ivy Bridge i7 3770K CPU, motherboard and 16GB DDR3 for a very good £450 - (sold 3 years old Phenom II 940 CPU, ASUS M3N72-D motherboard, 8GB DDR2 for £150) = £300 that lasted for 5 years then upgraded to Coffee Lake 8700K system and sold old system for £200, my old still very powerful 3770K will last for another 5 years with 2nd owner.
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x Intel Celeron G4900 3.10GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £37.99
- 1 x Gigabyte H310M-S2V Intel H310 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £47.99
- 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TLGD4= £89.99
Total: £186.47 (includes shipping: £10.50)
You bought 1st gen i3 540 CPU for £20???
You need to stop being too fussy buy CPU at stupid prices you thought price was fairly cheap and cut out annual losses because i3 540 CPUs is available to buy for just only £5!
I agreed with others that you better off not buy cheap random OEM brands which has very few CPU supports than retail motherboards every year and buy only 1 motherboard that will last you 5 to 10 years with 54W TDP Coffee Lake Celeron G4900 that is faster and has lower power consumption than 73W TDP i3 540 for a start then a year later or 2 you could upgrade Intel CPU to i5 8400 or i7 8600 like I did with Ivy Bridge i7 3770K CPU, motherboard and 16GB DDR3 for a very good £450 - (sold 3 years old Phenom II 940 CPU, ASUS M3N72-D motherboard, 8GB DDR2 for £150) = £300 that lasted for 5 years then upgraded to Coffee Lake 8700K system and sold old system for £200, my old still very powerful 3770K will last for another 5 years with 2nd owner.
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x Intel Celeron G4900 3.10GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £37.99
- 1 x Gigabyte H310M-S2V Intel H310 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £47.99
- 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TLGD4= £89.99
Total: £186.47 (includes shipping: £10.50)
Lol no, that £20 got me the i3 with cooler, the motherboard, less ram than I put in, the case and the original 300w cit unit, so minus a hard drive is was a complete system with starting issues which was ram related at the time.
The reason I was thinking the haswell again is because I can keep my 8gb ram kit even if it is 1333mhz and put my 4gb kit in my am1 keeping costs down with how much even 4gb ddr4 used or new is costing as I worked out a total amount of £157 to get a kabylake pentium, m-atx board and 4gb 2400mhz all new items, but that haswell with the pentium is a Lenovo ThinkCentre e73 mini tower which states to have a 60w limit which is better than that sff version I had, but not worth the time if my 1050ti wouldn’t run, it seems a grey area with reviewers whether that limit is just for its 180w unit they come with.