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Ryan-3

Ryan-3

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Will this all work together, and any suggestions.

The budget is £700 for now, I'm getting 5850 later, so I put it in to show you what my PC will be, incase the PSU wasn't powerful enough.

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Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £198.98
(£173.03) £198.98
(£173.03)
Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £129.98
(£113.03) £129.98
(£113.03)
AMD Phenom II X3 Tri Core 720 Black Edition 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £97.99
(£85.21) £97.99
(£85.21)
Patriot Sector 5 Viper II 4GB (2x2GB) PC3-12800 1600MHz Dual Channel + 3D Mark Vantage (PVV34G1600LLKB) £80.99
(£70.43) £80.99
(£70.43)
Lian Li Silent Force 650w Modular Power Supply £79.99
(£69.56) £79.99
(£69.56)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - Retail £65.99
(£57.38) £65.99
(£57.38)
Coolermaster Gladiator RC-600 Case - Black (No PSU) £62.99
(£54.77) £62.99
(£54.77)
Alpenföhn Nordwand CPU Cooler (Socket 775/1366/754/ 939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3) £43.99
(£38.25) £43.99
(£38.25)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £36.98
(£32.16) £36.98
(£32.16)
Samsung SH-S223B/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
(£14.77) £16.99
(£14.77)
Sub Total : £708.59
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.50
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £107.86
Total : £826.95
 
kcer is a clown, sprouts gibberish like this reguarly, ignore
Edit: oh and spec looks v good, enjoy
and as above, gfx will be tight and you ll have to watch positioning of hdd but will fit
 
95thrifles said:
kcer is a clown, sprouts gibberish like this reguarly, ignore
Edit: oh and spec looks v good, enjoy
and as above, gfx will be tight and you ll have to watch positioning of hdd but will fit
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This is what I was getting at in earlier threads, you only give advice to what he's asking. People could stroll in here saying they want to spend 2k on a computer but it has to be [insert **** component] based and you'd happily spec it for them. The AM3 is a daft choice given what's available else where, so yes, AM3 is dead right now.

I'd also like to point out I'm yet to be disproven by anyone who disagreed with me, but you go ahead and have your childish internet battle if you want.
 
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As can be seen in this chart (produced by techreport) at low resolutions (cpu dependant) then yeah i5/i7 is marginally better than AM3, however at higher resolutions (gpu dependant) AM3 is better, seen as how most people on here probably use a resolution circa 1920*1200 then that would make AM3 the better choice. Techreport speculate these results are down to the optimisation of the platform.
Further reson why AM3 is not dead is that AMD tend to make their hardware backwards compatible, hence its reasonable to argue AM3 has a much longer shelf life than 1366 or 1156
 
kcer said:
Also, why AM3? It's a dead platform.
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[sarcasm]
Quite right.
The only intelligent platform to buy is an i5 P55.
[/sarcasm]

:confused:

Personally OP, I would be aiming for a PII 955 or i5 on your budget, it can be done and will perform better.
 
To be fair I did underestimate the 965. I don't recall it being as good as that graph implies.

If the graph is accurate then it's a good deal considering the price it's at right now.
 
thanks 95thrifles + many others for proving my AM3 point :)

I may still get a p55 platform, thats in consideration, but AM3 with AMD's hexacore?

[borat]Iss niice[/borat] :p
 
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