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Right motherboard hunting for a shortlist this evening I think....
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Right motherboard hunting for a shortlist this evening I think....
Right motherboard hunting for a shortlist this evening I think....
No problem! . . . I wasn't trying to convince you, I was showing you what £250 would get you!, Built in graphics (IGP), fast quad core, upgradeable, why would you spend a penny more!Not going to convince me for AMD at the moment lol
No problem! . . . I wasn't trying to convince you, I was showing you what £250 would get you!, Built in graphics (IGP), fast quad core, upgradeable, why would you spend a penny more!
I can only imagine your getting overloaded by technical babayaga and have "throttled" your selection in the same way a processor "throttles" it's speed when it gets too hot! . . . . give us a shout if you change your mind!
Ok let me twist it another way then - just to confuse things even more - If I was to get a i5-750 what mobo would you get with it? Would it be a P55 based mobo? What graphics card would you recomend to go with it?
This question has already been answered in this thread.
Either take point on the response,accept the advice or move on.
No need to ask again....Just read the thread again.
neither. look for some stuff called G.Skill ECO 12800
You didn't quite answer it in full as I was asking above, I was trying to obtain a cost comparison to see how much more you would spend on an i5-750 unit compared to an i3-530 that you have also recomended.
I heeded your point of only buying a H55/H57 board for the i3 and not over spending because of the difference in the processor is only around £50-£60 however you didn't specify what type of GPU you would place it in.
and this is my concern....
because you will end up spending a great deal more. It isn't just the different Mobo, CPU but it also means spending out on a GPU at an increased cost so the £50 more becomes £150-£200 more.
if im on a budget and want something with lots of future potential, id go with a high end mobo, and skimp on the rest until i can afford to replace them.
ie, my sig rig did have a sempron in when i first got it...
To be honest, I think you should spend £50-£65 extra and get a i5 750 CPU instead.
Sure i3 530 is a nice and fast CPU that can overclock quite nicely, but in the end it is still a dual-core CPU not Quad.
More and more games are taking advantage of using the extra cores, and I would hate to see a 5870 get bottlenecked by a dual-core in some heavy geometry/terrain or CPU dependent games.
A i5 750 on that motherboard can overclock to 4.13GHz:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2010/02/01/asus-p7h57d-v-evo-motherboard-review/3
Ah...that's a great deal.I only paid £79 for the i3-530 so it's a bit more to spend to £150 for the i5-750