System upgrade options.

Vince

Vince

Vince

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Hi All,

Have been given the option today of upgrading my rig which is currently as follows:

DFI 975x/g 775 mobo
Q6600 go 1.125 vid
4gb ocz

I have a budget that work have given me of £250 and am thinking the following might be a good bet

MSI 870a-g54 AM3
AMD 1055T X6
4gb Corsair XMS3

Total cost £250.74

I guess the other options could be sandy bridge? I use it for all sorts from coding to my Sharepoint VM's etc...

Thoughts before I press the go button please.
 
the GO q6600 sits at 3ghz day in day out. Obviously I will be overclocking anything I get my greasy mits on. Just priced up a sandy bridge and it works out an extra £50.
 
I will be ordering today so wont be waiting for IvyBridge or anything else. Budget is not a strict budget but would like to stick in the £250 to £300 area.
 
How does this look for a SB build?

Intel Core i5 2300 2.8GHz Socket 1155 6MB Cache retail Box Processor
MSI H67MA-E45 H67 Socket 1155 GB Lan 8 Channel HD Audio MATX Motherboard
Kingston 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz HyperX Memory Kit 1.65V non-ECC CL9

Or is the 1.65v memory pushing it?
 
Ok I think I am going to go for the X6 1055t but am now not sure on the board, whats the best chipset for clocking these hex cores?
 
Ok have two threads open because im a noob, but are any of these two half decent?

Asus M4A88T-V EVO/USB3 880G
Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H 880GA
 
Ok think im settled on the following:

Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H 890GX Socket AM3 HDMI DVI VGA Out 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard

AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8GHz 9MB Cache Socket AM3 Retail Box Processor

2X Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz/PC3-12800 XMS3 i5 Memory Kit CL9(9-9-9-24) 1.65V

As a side, I could add a bit extra and go 1090t is it worth it?
 
Ok so this is what I ended up with:

Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H 890GX Socket AM3 HDMI DVI VGA Out 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition

2X Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz/PC3-12800 XMS3 i5 Memory Kit CL9(9-9-9-24) 1.65V
 
Yep thats what I went with, It will be here tomorrow so am looking forward to it :) Thanks for the help btw.

Was so close to clicking the go button on the 1100T but thought that there will be little difference between the 1090 and the 1100.

Have had an intel system now for the last 5 years so am looking forward to playing with some amd stuff again :)
 
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Cookeh said:
Big difference actually :p
1100T can overclock to 4.2GHz - never seen a 1090T go that high :D
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Ahh well for a free upgrade I can't really complain. Just doubling up the ram and the new processor should make a fair difference when im running several VM's and even if it makes no difference when gaming, well... im not overly fussed I was happy enough with my Q6600 and 5850 @ 5760x1080.
 
to be fair if I can hit 4ghz ill put a massive grin on my face kick back and do a few laps on f1 2010 :)
 
XD never trust a magazine thats your first schoolboy right there ;)

Next question... I am sitting thinking that I could have had an i5 sandy bridge, tell me I did the right thing :)
 
Sure that is a fair difference but this is not purely a gaming machine, for the most part it runs several vm (server 2008) environments for sharepoint development. The most part of my gaming is done playing league of legends on my laptop which is an I5, 4gb, 5650 combo... the desktop is used for gaming possibly once a fortnight for a few hours.
 
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Your breaking my balls now marine :( Ill see how I like it and go from there... it's been a while since ive owned any amd kit (barton 2500m) So ill run it for a little bit and see how I get on. I could always swap it into an office machine and club together a new build later on in the year or next year or something.

lets be honest its still going to wipe the floor with my old Q6600 is it not?
 
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Cookeh said:
Couldn't afford a 1100T build, so certainly can't afford the more expensive 2500k build.
VMs will make use of the extra cores and makes it more suitable than the 2500k for this use.

Change the record, everyone knows how good SB is, but it has its limits :rolleyes:
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Haha this is spot on, I am a porper so couldn't really push to the 2500k build. I sat, I thought, I rushed into a buying decision so I can have some metal to play with tomorrow.

I may regret it but then its not for life and I am sure it is going to do a cracking job over the next year or two. On another note I changed that anad link to compare it to my Q6600 and it walks all over ye old faithfull so thats good enough for me.
 
Well its done now anyway... all I have to do now is find a case to throw it all in but until then ill drop it into the atcs 220.

Cheers for the help all. :)
 
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