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Mercador
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Re: Not a good time to build a new PC?

Tue Apr 12, 2016 6:10 pm

I can price match with newegg listing by the way.

Would a 6500 be as good as a 6600 ?

Otherwise, does it worth it to push 40 dollars more to get a GTX 960 ?
 
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Re: Not a good time to build a new PC?

Tue Apr 12, 2016 7:06 pm

Mercador wrote:
I can price match with newegg listing by the way.

Would a 6500 be as good as a 6600 ?

Otherwise, does it worth it to push 40 dollars more to get a GTX 960 ?

If were it me I'd skip the 960, at one point it made sense to pick the 960, and instead go for the 380/380x with 4GB since prices have dropped. AMD cards get faster in their old age compared to Nvidia.

For the 6600 compared to the 6500 it's a matter of base clock (4 cores loaded), and turbo clock (2 cores loaded.) If you can get away with spending the extra $20.00-$24.00 for the 6600, get the 6600 for the higher base/turbo clocks.

Core i5 6600 vs. Core i5 6500

Edit: The 6600 has 3.9Ghz Turbo compared to the 6500 3.6Ghz, your CPU is more likely to spend more time running a 2 cores loaded than 4 cores loaded. But don't spend more money than is necessary, there isn't anything wrong about picking the i5-6500.
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Re: Not a good time to build a new PC?

Tue Apr 12, 2016 7:24 pm

Topinio wrote:
Yes $115 CDN for the MX200.

I agree the SanDisk ones are very reliable (IME), but the PLP of (some) Intel and (most) Crucial swings it for me: Intel as the premium, Crucial as the compromise.

Ah, fair enough. Personally I've seen too much flakey firmware on Crucial SSDs to go back, but to each their own. And it sounds like the Extreme Pro has some sort of SLC-based caching instead of using its own RAM, which negates power loss issues somewhat. I'd be happy to consider an Intel if the price were right though (and I still don't own an Intel, so...).

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