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| 836152 | 2009-12-03 08:04:00 | Last week I was all ready (not ready enough as it turns out) to buy an Asus P7P55D M/B www.computerlounge.co.nz I5 Lynnfield 2.66GH 8MB CPU and 2x 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600CL8 RAM, about $750, and there was a special (with Super Talent RAM) for $729. Today's price (with the Kingston) is $798. That's got me looking at AMD again. Asus M4A79XTD EVO M/B www.computerlounge.co.nz AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 3.4GH CPU and the same Kingston RAM comes to $714, or $685 if I go with the Phenom 955 3.2GH. Both M/B have the ports I want at the back, I won't be gaming much (probably hardly ever), so am wondering if the I5 set up is worth the extra $80~$115? Is the $30 difference between the AMDs worth the difference in general performance? Also I see there are now a range of I3 CPUs and other I5s that weren't in the mix last week. Any thoughts? |
Grimy (3041) | ||
| 836153 | 2009-12-04 06:49:00 | Staying with AMD, if I went with Gigabyte, this one seems closest to what I want www.computerlounge.co.nz although it doesn't have ESata on the back, so still think the Asus in my previous post would be better? Also reading up more on Phenom processors I think the 955 is probably all I need and runs cooler and is cheaper than the 965, and is only a slight oc away from the 965 if I ever found I wanted extra performance. Leaves me with a $685 MB/CPU/RAM combo, which sounds reasonable? |
Grimy (3041) | ||
| 836154 | 2009-12-05 08:40:00 | I bought a phenom/asus/ram package from computerlounge early this year. Later upgraded to 64bit w7. Apart from having upgrade the bios to get the board and the cpu to play together, it's been plain sailing. It's great to have some reasonable power! I can't imagine how a friend survives with his single core P4?? No turning back for me now. |
Tbird650 (6754) | ||
| 836155 | 2009-12-05 09:41:00 | I bought a phenom/asus/ram package from computerlounge early this year. Later upgraded to 64bit w7. Apart from having upgrade the bios to get the board and the cpu to play together, it's been plain sailing. It's great to have some reasonable power! I can't imagine how a friend survives with his single core P4?? No turning back for me now. What was the combo you settled on? |
Grimy (3041) | ||
| 836156 | 2009-12-05 09:52:00 | I just got a BE Phenom, ASUS board and RAM combo for a friend...was going for i5 also, but the combo went....the i5 will be maybe 5-10% quicker, but not sure if the user will notice it really. They are coming from a single core athlon, so it will be much quicker, and its got an SSD for the o/s... | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 836157 | 2009-12-05 10:27:00 | What was the combo you settled on? 1 x AMD Phenom II X4 920 + Corsair DDR2-800 2 x 2GB + ASUS M4A78 PRO @ $850.00 This was the combo with price at the time 25/2/09 Initially I installed my vista 32bit OS, then when W7 was released I thought yeah, why not. Now it's dual boot on a 2nd HDD, though I havent even been on the vista side for a couple of weeks. 64bit turns out to be marginally quicker and the drivers were no problem. Everything worked right off the bat with the 64bit upgrade except the webcam and that was sorted with the right driver from m'soft. Whats the next buzz?...more ram maybe?... well I'm not sure it would be worth the outlay as I havent got any real memory intensive programs at present. |
Tbird650 (6754) | ||
| 836158 | 2009-12-05 10:46:00 | Asus M4A79XTD EVO M/B www.computerlounge.co.nz AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 3.2GH CPU Kingston Hyper-X 1600 DDR3 RAM for $685 is starting to sound okay to me....... As I say, not my first choice, but probably more than sufficient for the usage it'll get. |
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