Personal computing discussed
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clone wrote:I'll see what I can put together but $425 is going to be tight.... the focus will have to be on video card for that coin.
cpu you may want to go triple core, 4gb's of ram, mobo will be interesting..... might be able to do it, hopefully that's $425 + tax not tax included.
clone wrote:to upgrade to 8gb's will cost less than $25
Chrispy_ wrote:Honestly, the free shipping makes this barely $40 more than your initial parts suggesion and the 660Ti will decimate a 7850.
Chrispy_ wrote:I know he's set on AMD/AMD but really the FX is not a good gaming architecture. It's not even really a quad-core, it's like a dual-core i3 with hyper-threading.
just brew it! wrote:a worst-case scenario where the workload is completely dominated by floating point calculations.
rogue426 wrote:ugh, I would seriously talk your friend into considering an I3 Intel build if he is going to game. For all the reasons Chrispy_ has stated , it's just a better performing platform than AMD now. Choosing an AMD build because of a Zalman cooler is sort of silly IMO, if only for the fact he could use the stock Intel fan until he had an extra $35 for a Cooler Master 212 EVO down the road.
Bashiba wrote:If the CPU is more important in this type of game, wouldn't it make sense to go with the FX 6300 over the FX 4300, I'm assuming they are the same only 6 cores instead of 4, and its only $10 more.
Bashiba wrote:So for the sake of Discussion, say I could swing him to the Intel side.
Would a more CPU heavy build with say a i5-3470 and a cheaper GPU like the 7770 be a better build for this type of game, rather than the amd quad core with a 2gb 7850?
Bashiba wrote:So for the sake of Discussion, say I could swing him to the Intel side.
Would a more CPU heavy build with say a i5-3470 and a cheaper GPU like the 7770 be a better build for this type of game, rather than the amd quad core with a 2gb 7850?
Bashiba wrote:So for the sake of Discussion, say I could swing him to the Intel side.
Would a more CPU heavy build with say a i5-3470 and a cheaper GPU like the 7770 be a better build for this type of game, rather than the amd quad core with a 2gb 7850?
MadManOriginal wrote:With a more powerful GPU, you can always increase graphics settings when CPU bound to at least make things prettier.
DPete27 wrote:If you live in the US near a Microcenter you could get the best of both worlds by taking advantage of their CPU + mobo combos.