Why go Intel @ this price??

rokerij

rokerij

rokerij

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Hi guys,

Spec for a mate (not necessarily from here)

Samcheer ThermoMax C Silver/Black Midi Tower
case with Cooling Duct (No PSU)
£28.73

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 Retail AM2
£106.16

*** GeForce 8800GTS 320MB HDCP Enabled Dual DVI PCI Express
(500MHz Core Clock) (1600MHz Memory Clock) (1200MHz Shader Clock)
£175.07

500GB Seagate Barracuda® SATA II 300 Hard Disk Drive
7200rpm 16MB cache (Manufacturer's 5yr Warranty)
£62.26

Asus M2V-MX Socket AM2
(Supports DDR2 800Mhz/6400 RAM, has x16 PCI-E)
£33.78

600W ATX Power Supply for AMD, P3 and P4 mainboards 20Pin
£22.32

Patriot 2GB PC2-6400 C4 Extreme Performance (2x1GB)
(Cas 4, Cas latency 4-4-4-12)
£70.44


Total = £498.76


Primarily for gaming 1280*1024, can anyone do better for 500 quid?? No monitor/mouse etc required.

thx
 
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Good price or not i certainly wouldn't run that system on a £22.32 PSU.

Anyway your title is just asking for a flame war to be honest.

Theirs situations where you should go Intel and other situations where you should be going AMD.

Their is no one set answer, Go Intel end of story, You should be taking other things into account like will you be overclocking, whats your budget etc....
 
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First of all I'd be highly sceptical of a 600W PSU costing £22 - what brand is it?

As for the 'why go intel' thing, you can get a 4meg cache C2D chip for less than the 6000+, when overclocked it will give it a good run for it's money (3.2ghz+ with 4meg cache will likely leave the AMD trailing in it's wake).

Personally I think that PC above lacks something for gaming - without an optical drive you will struggle to install most games :p
 
Looks good but I would spend less on the ram and more on the PSU. That psu you chose is probably poor quality and will not power a 8800GTS.

I would recommend any psu from Antec, Tagan, Corsair or Seasonic that are 500W+ for that rig. :)
 
Antec NSK4400 Mini Tower Case - 380W SmartPower PSU £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
EVGA nForce 650i Ultra (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (122-CK-NF66-T1) £44.99
(£52.86) £44.99
(£52.86)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB ST3500630AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £53.99
(£63.44) £53.99
(£63.44)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail £49.99
(£58.74) £49.99
(£58.74)
BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £169.99
(£199.74) £169.99
(£199.74)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)

Shipping : £10.95
Total : £505.12
 
Definately ditch the psu. Never ever skimp on a psu. It is the most important component in your pc. Skimp on it and you WILL end up regretting it.
 
Talbs13 said:
Antec NSK4400 Mini Tower Case - 380W SmartPower PSU £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
EVGA nForce 650i Ultra (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (122-CK-NF66-T1) £44.99
(£52.86) £44.99
(£52.86)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB ST3500630AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £53.99
(£63.44) £53.99
(£63.44)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail £49.99
(£58.74) £49.99
(£58.74)
BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £169.99
(£199.74) £169.99
(£199.74)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)

Shipping : £10.95
Total : £505.12
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Unless hes overclocking that chip is too slow at stock speeds.
You haven't specced in a decent cooler either. ARctic cooling freezer 7 is a must for clocking.

We'll wait to see if the OP wants to OC first.
 
A good few months ago one of the mags i usually read did a comparison between 6000+ X2 and the equivalently priced intel CPU. AMD actually hammered the intel price equivalent, so AMD still has some fight in it left. Not sure about now thought mind...

As everyone has said, always buy a good PSU, not the cheap tacky ones! Cheap ones tend to fail many of the ATX specifications...
 
pastymuncher said:
Never ever skimp on a psu. It is the most important component in your pc. Skimp on it and you WILL end up regretting it.
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I've been building PCs since the 90s and have yet to regret any PSU I've bought - the most expensive being an 470W OCZ Powerstream I got 2nd hand a couple of years ago for £37.50. I don't go for mega-cheap stuff but equally I've never pushed the boat out. Whereas I've actually had to replace a couple of PSUs in OEM systems for other people.
 
BlackDragon said:
A good few months ago one of the mags i usually read did a comparison between 6000+ X2 and the equivalently priced intel CPU. AMD actually hammered the intel price equivalent, so AMD still has some fight in it left. Not sure about now thought mind...
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E6550 costs the same as the X2-6000+, and is faster in most games at stock. I'm interpolating that based on E6600 performance, but the E6550 can't be far behind as it's only 66mhz slower with a much higher FSB.
When overclocked, I'd imagine it pulls away even further.

With the exception of upgrades (i.e. keeping existing mobo) I can't really see the appeal of AMD cpus right now.
 
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HangTime said:
E6550 costs the same as the X2-6000+, and is faster in most games at stock. I'm interpolating that based on E6600 performance, but the E6550 can't be far behind as it's only 66mhz slower with a much higher FSB.
When overclocked, I'd imagine it pulls away even further.

With the exception of upgrades (i.e. keeping existing mobo) I can't really see the appeal of AMD cpus right now.
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True, I just cant justify going AMD over Intel these days. If you are not overclocking jsut consider what is the cheapest package i.e. mobo + cpu.
 
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Unless hes overclocking that chip is too slow at stock speeds.
You haven't specced in a decent cooler either. ARctic cooling freezer 7 is a must for clocking.

We'll wait to see if the OP wants to OC first.
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Too slow for what exactly?

Edit - The mind boggles that people still continue to spec out these awesome gaming machines, and then expect a psu costing less than £25 to do the job. This 450w-500w roundup should be required reading for every single PC enthusiast out there. I mean one of them catches fire at only 75% of its rated load...and these are supposedly 'retail quality' units not the OEM junk that the thread-starter has specced for.
 
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LoadsaMoney said:
Sounds like a Q-Tec to me for that price, wheres that boom gif. :D
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rokerij said:
Primarily for gaming 1280*1024, can anyone do better for 500 quid?? No monitor/mouse etc required.

thx
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yeah


C2D get a 2160 for 50 and overclock to 3ghz + saving you 50 quid already over that naff AM2 chip :D
 
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