£950 AMD alternative build

Nico_Joey · 28 Feb 2010 at 13:18

I currently have an intenl i5 spec in mind, but would like to see what an AMD alternative could give me. Baring in mind i would like to have a really good base hardware to build upon, i.e. motherboard/ram/cpu. To do some nice overclocking with.

I5spec is

Will be selling some old hardware for about £100 and vat being paid by a 3rd party so i have about £900-950 to play with. Will be gaming mostly and some ever so slight bit of encoding.

Case Lian- Li V2000 and psu is 520w corsair. Thanks for the help

chipps101 · 28 Feb 2010 at 13:26

just swap out your motherboard for this - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-355-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1481

and your cpu for this -
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-244-AM&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1328

and you would pretty much have the amd equivalent i think and the unlocked multiplier of the be processor would make overclocking simple

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CAT-THE-FIFTH · 28 Feb 2010 at 13:34

Nico_Joey said:
I currently have an intenl i5 spec in mind, but would like to see what an AMD alternative could give me. Baring in mind i would like to have a really good base hardware to build upon, i.e. motherboard/ram/cpu. To do some nice overclocking with.

I5spec is

Will be selling some old hardware for about £100 and vat being paid by a 3rd party so i have about £900-950 to play with. Will be gaming mostly and some ever so slight bit of encoding.

Case Lian- Li V2000 and psu is 520w corsair. Thanks for the help

For an AMD based build I would look at getting a Phenom II X4 955BE:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-244-AM

I would also look at this AMD motherboard too:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-366-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1481

It does symmetrical Crossfire at PCI-E 2.0 8X/8X.

On OcUK the cheapest P55 motherboard to be able to do this is over £130.

I would sell the HX520W and get a PSU like the following:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-117-AN&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=

You could add another HD5870 1GB in the future if required.

chipps101 · 28 Feb 2010 at 13:38

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
It does symmetrical Crossfire at PCI-E 2.0 8X/8X.

you really love your symmetrical crossfire don't you

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 28 Feb 2010 at 13:48

chipps101 said:
you really love your symmetrical crossfire don't you

Well for the price why not keep that option open??

Who knows the OP may find an HD5870 1GB for £50 in a year??

chipps101 · 28 Feb 2010 at 14:13

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Who knows the OP may find an HD5870 1GB for £50 in a year??

he would have to fight me and quite a few others for it

Nico_Joey · 28 Feb 2010 at 18:13

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-366-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1481

It does symmetrical Crossfire at PCI-E 2.0 8X/8X.

Thanks for the help CAT-THE-FIFTH, think il go down the AMD route. Would the Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4 be just as good as that Asus? Just seem to have some more substatial cooling?

And would my 520w psu be completely inadequate for those parts btw?Would prefer to save up for a monitor/gpu/ssd etc + 750w psu in a month or two.