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Emcjames2

Emcjames2

Emcjames2

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hey guys just started buying bits and pieces and working out where to go next seems like here is the home of knowledge and everyone seems pretty friendly
well i'm looking into playing mmorpgs and maybe things like battlefield
i'm guessing you'd like to know about what build i'm going to go for,
Asus P8P67 -pro
Corsair 8gb ram
Saphire radeon hd 4770 1gb
Bitfenix shinobi
i'm tempted to buy a i7 because it isnt that much more than a i5 and extra power will always be useful right?
and a psu im not too sure yet
well i shall be seeing everyone more hopefully toodlaoo for now
 
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I can tell you for sure that 4770 is a trololo video card, it will bottle neck pretty much any CPU you put in, if you already have it send it back unless you got it very cheap, Get at least 6850, it is like 10 pounds more expensive while 2x more powerful or you could go for 6870 or 6950 all about 10 pounds more expensive than other, worth it though in my opinion, but 6850 is right on budget for me.

Get i5, if you`re on budget, you dont need i7 in today`s gaming world that much, I sometimes run into big trouble with my 2700K`s hyperthreading in older games I just need to disable threads in BIOS but thats effort, tbh I would get AMD 8120FX if you`re settling for i5.. Personal preference, some benchmarks put AMD higher, others absolutely murder it, but for some reason I believe that 8120 will come on top from i5, since as games advance they will make use of 8 cores while i5 is already at peak of its potential... Same thing with 2500k vs 2700k really, barely any FPS difference in games today, but tomorrow will be different story, but am pretty sure that there will be few intel fan boys who will prove me wrong.
 
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Emcjames2 said:
Ahh right so would the p8p67 run a fx CPU then? As on there specs it doesn't state its capable of using that? Thanks for the card advice too
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for FX processor you need AM3+ motherboard, Why 8120? Because it does OK for its price, if you do not care about spending extra I would get Intel i7 3770K. However if money is an issue I would go for good video card rather than CPU, since most likely the GPU will bottleneck system and not the CPU...

Post questions like this in general hardware and do so before purchasing anything, guys there are very good, much better than me and they`ll point you in right direction.
 
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