Man this is tough,
I am building a New Music Studio PC and I had my heart set on a 4ghz clocked i3 and H55 Mobo with 4GB DDR3,
Now I have stumbled across maybe getting Phenom II 550 and maybe unlocking the cores to make a fully functional Quad.
I will be using onboard GFX and I understand that the 785G and H55 and i3 GFX trade blows like for like.
What would you do?
AMD Phenom II X2 Dual Core 550 3.10GHz Black Edition (Socket AM3) - Retail £71.99
Asus M4A785D-M Pro AMD 785G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £60.99
Total £132.99
Or
Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz (Clarkdale) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £98.99
Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H Intel H55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £84.99
Total : £183.98
50 Quid seperates the two with the former having a chance to unlock to a quad. If not then both are dual core combo's
Which would you choose?
Cheers dudes
Easy
I am building a New Music Studio PC and I had my heart set on a 4ghz clocked i3 and H55 Mobo with 4GB DDR3,
Now I have stumbled across maybe getting Phenom II 550 and maybe unlocking the cores to make a fully functional Quad.
I will be using onboard GFX and I understand that the 785G and H55 and i3 GFX trade blows like for like.
What would you do?
AMD Phenom II X2 Dual Core 550 3.10GHz Black Edition (Socket AM3) - Retail £71.99
Asus M4A785D-M Pro AMD 785G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £60.99
Total £132.99
Or
Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz (Clarkdale) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £98.99
Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H Intel H55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £84.99
Total : £183.98
50 Quid seperates the two with the former having a chance to unlock to a quad. If not then both are dual core combo's
Which would you choose?
Cheers dudes
Easy
