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i5 Questions

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Hey all,
I have been thinking of selling my current motherboard and RAM in order to fund an i5 CPU/Motherboard/RAM.
My questions are,

1) On the OCUK website they have h97 h95 and p55's, could someone explain what all of these mean to me as i am getting confused :(

2) Which i5 CPU should i go for, i was looking at the 750 and have previously heard that these perform better than an i7 when they are teamed up with a single graphics card?

3) Which Motherboard should i go for, any recomendations from people?

4) which ram is it triple channel like the i7 or just dual channel

Thanks for any help

My budget is 300 for motherboard ram and cpu :)

Arcimbaldo
 
Ahhh, thanks very much, cna now understand clearly the differences etc. yes i will be running my hd 4850 in the setup until i fork out enough cash for hd 5770/5850
Am i right in saying that this build may be more futureproof than an AMD build, atm i have an AM3 board with an old AMD 5000+ in it, But it uses DDR2 would it be worth me floggin this off along with the cpu and my DDR2 and putting it towards an i5?

Damn this is gonna cost me a lot, Paper round is gonna have to stretch a bit :P
 
Ah well if i did
4x1gb of OCZ 800mhz ram
Gigabyte ma 790x ud4p
amd 5000+
Would about 125 be a fair price for all that?

And back on topic,
I think about 350 is a more realistic budget now, so 100 for ram 100 for motherboard then 150 for the cpu, something along those lines?
 
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