Spec

Garonazz · 2 Oct 2010 at 14:56

Hey everyone, im in the process of building a PC for gaming and I need some help.

So far ive bought a new case, PSU, Im planning to reuse my DDR2 ram.

So my budget is 310 quid abouts, what I need:

Motherboard that supports ddr2 ram
Graphics Card (Was thinking gtx 460 or 5830, dont know)
and Processor

Thanks in advance

stulid · 2 Oct 2010 at 14:58

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
MSI GeForce GTX 460 Cyclone 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £126.89
(£107.99) £126.89
(£107.99)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £110.44
(£93.99) £110.44
(£93.99)
Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 AMD 770 (Socket AM3/AM2+) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £63.99
(£54.46) £63.99
(£54.46)
Sub Total : £256.44
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £46.54
Total : £312.48

GTX460 vs 5830 - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/156?vs=171

Garonazz · 2 Oct 2010 at 15:12

Hmmm if it was 460 id prefer the 1GB version to be honest.
Is there any way to fit that in ?
Maybe switch the quad phenom to dual phenom black edition ?

Thanks a lot by the way

stulid · 2 Oct 2010 at 15:15

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
MSI GeForce GTX 460 Cyclone 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £170.36
(£144.99) £170.36
(£144.99)
AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 630 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £70.49
(£59.99) £70.49
(£59.99)
Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 AMD 770 (Socket AM3/AM2+) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £63.99
(£54.46) £63.99
(£54.46)
Sub Total : £259.44
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £47.06
Total : £316.00

Garonazz · 2 Oct 2010 at 15:19

sounds good!

Thanks a lot for that.
would that athlon bottleneck the gtx 460 ? what would performance be like ?

jakesnake · 2 Oct 2010 at 15:20

if your feeling lucky you could get the phenom dual and try to unlock it to a quad.
read reviews on ocuk for it

stulid · 2 Oct 2010 at 15:21

630 vs 955 - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/105?vs=88

GTX460 768mb vs GTX460 1gb - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/180?vs=156

more comparisons between the cpus can be found here,

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php just click on the cpu you want to look at.

so 630 - http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=AMD+Athlon+II+X4+630

955BE - http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=AMD+Phenom+II+X4+955

Liampope · 2 Oct 2010 at 17:11

jakesnake said:
if your feeling lucky you could get the phenom dual and try to unlock it to a quad.
read reviews on ocuk for it

I'd actually agree with jakesnake here :eek:

. Unlocking a 555 to a 965 has good success rates and might be worth considering. The only thing is I dont think you can on that mobo Stulid specced (but can on the rev 2 of the same board). So be careful with mobo choice if going that route. Would be a winner if you were successful, and not exactly the end of the world if you weren't as a dual-core still cuts the mustard.