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Monster ninja

Monster ninja

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hi chaps
wanting to replace my old am2+ athlon rig with somthing new. but i dont know what? i would like a i5 or i7. the PC will be used for gaming, surfing ect and i only need a cpu,mobo and ram my budget is £300-450

My rig now is

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.0GHz

4GB of giel DDR2 black dragon ram

Asus M2N-SLi Deluxe

XFX GTX260

antec 902

corsair HX 850w

corsair H-50

2x 1TB spinpionts f3s

win 7 X64

all i need is the CPU,mobo, ram i would like corsair ram but thats not importent
i would like to have usb,sata 3 but thats not to importent
also the rig WILL be overclocked :D
 
Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66GHz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) OEM £167.99

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard
£156.98

OCZ Obsidian 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600Mhz Triple Channel Kit (OCZ3OB1600LV6GK)
£114.99
 
Are you aware that both of Intels current sockets are dead next year. 1156 in Q1 2011 and 1366 in Q3 2011. AMD makes much more sense in terms of future upgrades.
 
Your board can take a Phenom II 945, so you could see if you can pick on of them up. You could always email Asus & ask them if you would get away with putting a 955 in there.

That would be the cheapest option unless you want to get a new motherboard as well
 
mrfun1981 said:
Your board can take a Phenom II 945, so you could see if you can pick on of them up. You could always email Asus & ask them if you would get away with putting a 955 in there.

That would be the cheapest option unless you want to get a new motherboard as well
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how can my board take a 945 thats am3 not am2?
 
pastymuncher said:
Are you aware that both of Intels current sockets are dead next year. 1156 in Q1 2011 and 1366 in Q3 2011. AMD makes much more sense in terms of future upgrades.
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whats intel bringing out next year then? i heard that 1156 and 1366 will be around for a lot longer? (sorry double post)
 
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mrfun1981 said:
Best to give it a bit of a search if you can get away with a 955 as that is a black edition & better for over clocking where's the 945 is not a black edition & there is only roughly £15-£20 price difference
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no it dose not look like i can get a 955 to work with my mobo, thanks mate ;)
 
Did you email ASUS as some company's dont always seam to update the spec's of there older boards?

But if it still only gaming you do on your system you could look a a Phenom II x2 555 ( an if you are lucky it might unlock to a quad). But if you want a quad for gaming & you cant get a 945 maybe look at a athlon II x4 635

Check this link out & it will list what are the better CPU's for gaming
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gaming-cpu,2599-7.html

Changing the CPU is the cheapest option & you would still have a great system, unless you really want to spend all your budget & yeah you could get a i7 but it might be a liitle over kill for what you need
 
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