Hi, as you can see from my sig its been a few years since my last build and its finally time to do a new one, mainly because my current one is starting to fail. Now as its been a few years I am pretty clueless regarding the latest tech so would appreciate if you guys could help put together a build.
Will keep my dvdrw drive for obvious reasons, my case (Thermaltake Tsunami Dream) after a good dusting (and so long as it can fit today's gfx cards?) and my psu so long as it is still up to scratch?
Budget for this is probably no more than £800. Now from my quick afternoon's reading I have thought that getting an i5 would be better for me as it has roughly the same gaming performance as the i7. The i7 has future compatibility with the i9 but considering the space between my upgrades this seems fairly worthless as I imagine intel will not be sticking with the same socket a few years hence.
Now the other big decision is the gfx card, 5850 v 5870, is the 5870 really worth the extra dollar? I have read with a bit of OCing the 5850 can perform quite comparably? Bear in mind with this that my maximum resolution will be 1600x900.
Just to add this is a general purpose/gaming build.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Will keep my dvdrw drive for obvious reasons, my case (Thermaltake Tsunami Dream) after a good dusting (and so long as it can fit today's gfx cards?) and my psu so long as it is still up to scratch?
Budget for this is probably no more than £800. Now from my quick afternoon's reading I have thought that getting an i5 would be better for me as it has roughly the same gaming performance as the i7. The i7 has future compatibility with the i9 but considering the space between my upgrades this seems fairly worthless as I imagine intel will not be sticking with the same socket a few years hence.
Now the other big decision is the gfx card, 5850 v 5870, is the 5870 really worth the extra dollar? I have read with a bit of OCing the 5850 can perform quite comparably? Bear in mind with this that my maximum resolution will be 1600x900.
Just to add this is a general purpose/gaming build.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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