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| Thread ID: 122736 | 2012-01-09 22:37:00 | My first build. | Slankydudl (16687) | Press F1 |
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| 1253185 | 2012-01-10 02:08:00 | GPU: SAPPHIRE Dual fan AMD 6970 I'd change this to either ASUS or Gigabyte. Other than that, lovely. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1253186 | 2012-01-10 04:44:00 | I honestly don't see whats wrong with the Sapphire? | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1253187 | 2012-01-10 04:59:00 | Sapphire is big overseas I'm told, but here it's just a cheaper brand that doesn't have the reputation for quality that Asus and Gigabyte do. The New motherboard and CPU links you posted are great but for gaming purposes it seriously isn't worth the money to get an i7 2600k over the i5 2500k, they overclock about the same and the only other difference is hyperthtreading which you will only benefit from on very highly threaded apps such as video encoding. If you want the best then sure grab the i7 :) As for the graphics card options, actually not much is an upgrade over the 6790. Refer to this chart www.tomshardware.com and basically go as high as you can reasonably afford. At the moment if you disregard the Dual GPU cards you have 3 options above the 6970, a GTX 580, A 5970 which is oddly faster than the 6970 (if you can find one) or wait a bit for the 7970 which is due out about now so should be available soon. Heres another chart, www.tomshardware.com this time regarding CPU's and only with regards to games. You'll note all the i5's are listed in the same tier as the i7's meaning they perform about the same. Me personally I would go for an i5 with a GTX580 over an i7 with a GTX570 or ATI 6970 (and I did, check my sig :)) Both those articles are worth a read by the way, just ignore the price reccomendations as our prices don't line up with theirs, I always read through then compare local prices myself. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1253188 | 2012-01-10 05:48:00 | I was looking at the 7970 but it will be very expensive and most motherboards with PCIe 3.0 are quite expensive. anyways in future I will be looking at getting another 6970, i will just have to save up a bit. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1253189 | 2012-01-10 17:57:00 | Refer to this chart www.tomshardware.com you have 3 options above the 6970, a GTX 580, A 5970 which is oddly faster than the 6970 Yes. I have the 5970. Disappointingly there isn't much of a performance increase so far to justify the cost of the new ones.......Might have to skip another year.......... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1253190 | 2012-01-10 18:41:00 | Well its not that odd that it is better as it is a dual gpu card like the 6990. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1253191 | 2012-01-11 02:47:00 | 1 That ASUS motherboard is just fine with the CPU you have suggested. 2 I have never experienced problems with Sapphire product, what is wrong with a better price? 3 The power supply is unneccessarily large and will unlikely to be very efficient at the light loading you will be drawing. A 420-w or 500-w would be my choice, after calculating what the maximum loading is likely to be with the components you have specified. |
PENTIUM (426) | ||
| 1253192 | 2012-01-11 02:57:00 | The processor is listed for that board. After looking up your display card cross fire capabilities, forget about my 420-w suggestion, up it to 600-w. |
PENTIUM (426) | ||
| 1253193 | 2012-01-11 04:08:00 | thanks thats really usefull info | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1253194 | 2012-01-11 06:11:00 | Hey Estlin, it's me Will. I agree with most of the things everyone is saying, especially about the i5 2500k, I would recommend that over the Phenom. also, as I said on FB, don't worry about the 16 GB, 8GB will be fine for now easily. | skeptile2 (16539) | ||
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