upgrade advice please, i7 or AMD phenom? spec me ect

[LukeMiller86]

Hi

Im looking to upgrade my PC, well more like fix as well as its currently broken and non working.

I already have the case, hard drives, sound card, dvd drive and the PSU is probably still fine too although that needs checking.

So I need a CPU, motherboard, RAM and a graphics card.

This will be used mostly for gaming, some video editing also but nothing serious.

Budget of say around £700 for those core components, if i need a new PSU that doesnt need to come from this budget.

Im thinking of the Intel i7 920 but ive also seen the AMD cpus get good results in benchmarks for gaming and are a lot cheaper. I'd also like 6gig of RAM as i will be using 64bit when windows 7 is out.

advice please!

 

[95thrifles]

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail + World In Conflict PC Game £215.99 (£187.82)
Asus ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £164.99 (£143.47)
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £141.99 (£123.47)
OCZ Platinum 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-15000 (1800MHz) Tri-Channel (OCZ3P1800LV6GK) £84.99 (£73.90)
Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366) £57.99 (£50.43)
Sub Total : £579.09
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £88.36
Total : £677.45

If youre willing to go a bit over then it'd be worth looking at a 4870x2, if you game at 24" plus anyway Which PSU have you got? and which HDDs? If theyre too old it'd be worth upgrading them too

 

[RIZZEE]

depends what res your using, but heres my try at a spec

 

[LukeMiller86]

the PSU is 600w but i dont remember the brand, ill have to open my old pc up and have a look. is that enough power for these kinda specs?

the hard drives are only about a year old, so they should be ok yea?

at first it will be at just 1280x1024 res but a monitor upgrade is on the cards too when i can rearrange my desk to fit something larger.

 

[user1453]

I did the amd build with ddr3/am3 black edition, you could save a few pound by going for the am2+ black edition and an am2+ ddr2 board

With the recent price drops in i7 kit I would just go i7

P.S. I am running an old 600w enermax psu with a virtually identical setup, so long as it is a good quality psu it should be fine

 

[LukeMiller86]

yeah looking at it like that it does look like the price difference between i7 and AMD is kinda not much.

how about future upgradability, is one any more or less likely to be a dead end?