New build

[Rycon11]

Budget 1000 - 1200 Euro (1,032.42 GBP)

I need a new pc excluding monitor mouse keyboard and case

What do you recommend?

Cpu - I was going for sandybridge but is it worth considering the ram limitations?

Graphics card - most important since I will use it for gaming

Thanks

 

[Rycon11]

Live rates at 2011.01.31 10:12:00 UTC
1,200.00 EUR = 1,032.42 GBP
Euro United Kingdom Pounds
1 EUR = 0.860354 GBP 1 GBP = 1.16231 EUR

make life easier for you specers

Thanks mate

 

[Rycon11]

I'd definitely go for Sandybridge given its performance benefits over 1156.

So 1155 socket with maybe 2gx4 ram? and sandybridge ofc

Do you rechon I could do that with 12000E budget? Still need graphics card psu and HD

I heard that sandybridge is a beast for overclocking

 

[Rycon11]

I like that build king but wouldn't I get a better performance increase going for the sandy i7 and removing the ssd?

 

[Rycon11]

It depends why you want it really, for gaming the difference between i5 and i7 is negligible

See Benchmarks below:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/287?vs=288

It's only really once you start to render that you see a real difference.

I guess the other issue with SSD's that I forgot to mention is that there are newer ones coming out Feb/March time, which may well be faster and cheaper...

The only setback of the 60GB SSD right now is that it has low capacity, 120gb is very expensive

kd

I want it for gaming,watching movies/music mostly.I don't do any rendering on my pc.Well rarely but I can spare waiting a few more seconds when rendering

As for ssd's I will try searching around for info but if you could put in a link it would be helpful