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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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crespo
United States16 Posts
Maybe one of these? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103871 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103911 The only difference between Phenoms and Athlon II's is the L3 cache right? I'm just not sure how much I should value having that as opposed to not. edit: whoops had a wrong link in there | ||
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nastyndog
United States43 Posts
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/phenom-athlon-ii-x2_2.html http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlon-ii-x3-435.html http://www.techspot.com/review/171-amd-phenomx2-athlonx2/ http://www.guru3d.com/article/athlon-ii-x2-250-and-phenom-ii-x2-550-be-review/ http://www.anandtech.com/show/4048/amds-winter-update-athlon-ii-x3-455-phenom-ii-x2-565-and-phenom-ii-x6-1100t For gaming alone, the Phenom II X2 would be my choice. | ||
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crespo
United States16 Posts
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Aduromors
United States279 Posts
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102932 | ||
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Anjuu
United States57 Posts
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
These two articles should help you if you are in the market for a monitor, there's also plenty of monitor reviews on the site as well: http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/panel_technologies.htm http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/faq.htm | ||
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dandan23
Malaysia101 Posts
Which slot should i use though using 2 x 120 gb vertex 3 ? 2 xSATA 6.0 Gb/s ports (gray) by P67 2 xSATA 6.0 Gb/s ports (navy blue) by Marvell 9120 and what's "All the boards except the GD65 has 12 phase power" ? don't get the phase power.. more the better ? and if i get a gtx580 and a dx sound card that uses pci-e slot meaning i wont have enough slots for.. "The P8P67 Standard and UD3P does not offer SLI while the rest do." | ||
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Ingenol
United States1328 Posts
Your sound card will use PCI x1, you will have plenty of slots for it and your graphics card regardless of which motherboard you choose. SLI is running two nVIDIA cards in tandem. If you plan on doing this you will require an SLI compatible motherboard, which will have slots for two graphics cards. Edit: also, if you're buying two 120 GB Vertex 3, you might as well buy one 240 GB. The 240 GB is significantly faster. There is a very technical article on AnandTech about why this is the case. | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
On April 15 2011 08:17 Ingenol wrote: Use the Intel ports (gray). People seem to report better performance with these. Your sound card will use PCI x1, you will have plenty of slots for it and your graphics card regardless of which motherboard you choose. SLI is running two nVIDIA cards in tandem. If you plan on doing this you will require an SLI compatible motherboard, which will have slots for two graphics cards. Edit: also, if you're buying two 120 GB Vertex 3, you might as well buy one 240 GB. The 240 GB is significantly faster. There is a very technical article on AnandTech about why this is the case. Yes, use the Intel ports. AFAIK the Marvell 9120 is connected to the P67 chipset anyway, so the direct connection would be better. Well, RAID 0 (two) 120 GB Vertex 3 would be significantly faster than a single 240 GB Vertex 3...but it's not worth it. That is, unless you have some server workloads with ungodly I/O requirements or really need to be able to be reading or writing data in excess of 600 MB/s. I'd rather have TRIM support and half the chance of failure. | ||
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Az0r_au
Australia385 Posts
Prices bellow are in AUD and are slightly more expensive than newegg but are some of the cheapest available to me atm. Cpu: i5-2500 ($223) Mobo: ASUS P8P67-M-V3 ($93) Ram: 8GB KIT 1600 (4GB x 2) G.SKILL RIPJAWS ($120) Gpu: GTX 560Ti 1GB MSI ($269) psu: SEASONIC S12II 80+ 430W ($84) HDD: 500GB WD Green ($42) case: Antec 300 ($55) fans: 2x COOLER MASTER SILENT LED FAN 12CM ($30) Total $916 So my question basically is where should I be spending the extra ~$80 or so? Should I be going for an i7 2600 ($92 more) or am I better off getting a diffrent video card maybe a gtx570. I think wow only supports dual core. | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
There may be something decent for cheaper than the S12II 430W too. Where are you getting the parts from? | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
WoW utilizes more than two cores but the core i7 2600 would not be worth it for the sole purpose of WoW. There is very little difference between 1333MHz and 1600MHz memory, see here: http://techreport.com/articles.x/20377 Seasonic power supplies come at a premium over their competitors so there are probably better alternatives. If the configuration isn't being overclocked than you should look into getting a H61 / H67 board to save some money. Get a SSD bigger than 60GB since WoW + Windows 7 should take almost 50GB in total. There is a BIG difference between playing WoW on a HDD and a SSD. @dandan23 More phases equates to better power which in turn leads to a higher overclock. But this shouldn't concern you since most P67 boards will easily reach the 4.5GHz - 5GHz range. Sound cards use a PCI-E x1 slot and all your listed motherboards have enough PCI-E slots for a PCI-E sound card and SLI to fit. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
lol looks like your PC is ready to be shipped and you got a free $50 along with it =p + Show Spoiler + | ||
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Az0r_au
Australia385 Posts
The 2 fans were at request from my friend. He wanted LED front fans for the looks. I personally wouldn't bother with them. Same with the ram, he asked for ripjaws cause of the looks. The 1333 is only $4 less for a 4gb stick than the 1600. The only 120gb SSD's they have are ~$230 abit out of the budget and like you said wow + windows7 wont fit onto 60gb. Should I just upgrade to a WD black? I know wow has alot of loading when moving between zones. Unfortunately the site doesn't have a wide variety of low end PSUs The only others of similar price/wattage are CM (which I've heard nothing but bad news) and ThermalTake which I know very little about, but they dont seem to be 80+ certified and had considerably lower ampage on the 12v. Other than that it's mostly 600w+ psus that are $100+ | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
Just checking, but you didn't forget a DVD drive? That may be most of the rest of the budget. If not, I'd still consider stepping down to a i5-2400 and maybe a HD 6870, and then grabbing the 60GB Patriot Inferno (SandForce SF1200 series like the Corsair Force, OCZ Vertex 2/Agility 2, etc.). If you're not getting the SSD, you should probably upgrade the WD Green yeah. | ||
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Az0r_au
Australia385 Posts
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Ingenol
United States1328 Posts
On April 15 2011 08:26 Myrmidon wrote: Well, RAID 0 (two) 120 GB Vertex 3 would be significantly faster than a single 240 GB Vertex 3...but it's not worth it. That is, unless you have some server workloads with ungodly I/O requirements or really need to be able to be reading or writing data in excess of 600 MB/s. I'd rather have TRIM support and half the chance of failure. Good point. I totally agree: save money, get double the space and TRIM with a 240 GB Vertex 3 unless you have a very specific reason to need them in Raid 0. | ||
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Leeto
United States1320 Posts
Can someone recommend me any specific ones that are reliable and will last at least 2 years? | ||
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