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| Thread ID: 95193 | 2008-11-27 08:24:00 | Pls critique my intending system | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 723621 | 2008-11-27 08:24:00 | Hi, I have briefly looked at some reviews . I am using a old laptop from 2000 and at the moment someone else's PC - AMD Sempron 2500+, they just use it for MS Office the net and email so photography software was always gonna push it . I had a look at some reviews and I purposely looked at Photoshop CS3 tests . I use the computer for other stuff but it's pretty generic - MS Office, playing music and video, surf the net and email and chatting software and the occasional game nothing that requires a specific research . Basically for the core components, I thought of Intel Duo 3 . 33Ghz E8600 because this was at the top of the list (tomshardware . com for CS3 test) . 2nd on the list was Intel Quad Core QX9770 3 . 2Ghz at a ridiculous price tag . AMD's dual and quad cores were at the bottom of the list . So I am thinking of getting a E8600 . What do you say? Another question, at this time who would be benefiting from Quad Core? To be used with Vista 64 bit probably . Thanks . |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 723622 | 2008-11-27 08:37:00 | Quad Core's will future proof your computer, photoshop will start to take advantage of all 4 cores meaning you'll get much faster performance. I reckon you should get the Q6600 and maybe OC it later, most new games and design software are starting to use all 4 cores. Gamers and 3D programmers/designers would benefit from quads, as I said most new games and design programs are starting to take advantage of all 4 cores(8 soon). You'd probably want a nice GFX card, a 4870 would probably handle it well. Lots of RAM, 4gb at least |
Blam (54) | ||
| 723623 | 2008-11-27 09:22:00 | I personally would never get the top-end of any Core 2 Duos. Their low-end CPUs are so very overclockable. Well, most of them anyway. If I were you I'd pick up and E8200 than E8600, thus save around $200 for another component, like a graphics card. You can then OC the E8200 to 3GHz or more easily. | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 723624 | 2008-11-27 10:01:00 | Wouldn't that mean you'd have to add the price of some form of cooling though? | Blam (54) | ||
| 723625 | 2008-11-27 10:13:00 | Not too sure about the E8200, but my E6750 certainly didn't need an aftermarket cooling at 3.2GHz. I just bought Freezer 7 Pro because I thought 66 at load is too hot...which it isn't. 72c is when the E6750 will complain apparently. Then today I just found out I can actually undervolt the CPU stable at 1.3125v.....which makes it 5-7 degrees cooler. I'm getting 52 max on load now. Stock may be around 60 instead of 66. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 723626 | 2008-11-27 11:13:00 | EDIT: Scratch that 1.3125 crap in my above post.....just had a system freeze which looks like it's been caused by the undervolted CPU during intense load. Now I've upped it to 1.325 and all looks good. For now anyway. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 723627 | 2008-11-27 23:03:00 | You might want to wait for i7? | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 723628 | 2008-11-28 00:09:00 | Don't wait for i7. Unless you want to spend a whole bunch on it, we're talking ~$1000 for just your CPU and MoBo. But if you can handle that, then go nuts. The only flaw in photoshop and quads is that CS4 is going to use your GPU for a lot of tasks. Having the extra cores would be OK, but the GPU is going to take most of the hit there. |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 723629 | 2008-11-28 00:59:00 | Hi, what about this mobo: . co . nz/productspecification . aspx?ItemID=366945" target="_blank">ascent . co . nz I was looking at higher FSB, with RAID and a higher memory speed . . and don't wanna go more than $250 much . Intel Q6600 CPU . Video card at $200 possible? Occasional game, mostly photography . iCore is too expensive :D Cheers |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 723630 | 2008-11-28 01:09:00 | I had a look, are motherboards around $250 hard to come by with eSATA port? | Nomad (952) | ||
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