Help with purchase?

[danewesley]

Hi all, I'm looking in to building a new system now and thinking what to go for. Had to ask though, I have been offered a xeon x5660 for £120, I know it's an amazing CPU but is it worth this much, and over newer gen CPUs priced the same?

Thanks

 

[danewesley]

Well at the moment I have nothing, I was doing a z87 build with a 4770k but my board is faulty so waiting to Rma it, in the mean time I sold the 4770k to pay some bills.

So as of now I have a good power supply, corsair 650d and a samsung ssd, so no main components, I'm waiting to get the cash together to buy some stuff and spotted this CPU on an auction site for a lot more, emailed them explaining why I think it's worth less and they accepted that low offer.

I do however have a silverstone sg05 as a media server/torrent box so I'm thinking of selling the low end mobo, CPU and ram and buying an fm2 Richland apu for basic games like league of legends.

 

[danewesley]

Yes I'm thinking of consolidating all my computers in to one, I'm thinking about getting the gigabyte fm2+ board and the a10-7850k and just to run the server and play some league on. I don't have much cash available now and it's all constantly running through my head what to buy.

Another option is, in the clearance lines there is the asus z87i-professional itx board for £80, so the same as the fm2+ one, add on to that an i3 and a discrete card and I think I might be better off?

 

[danewesley]

I will have to mod the sg05 to fit an atx psu in then, unless I can sell that and buy the newer sg08-lite case. Will see how this all goes anyway, thanks for the help.