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On March 26 2011 02:16 iloveroo wrote:Show nested quote +On March 25 2011 21:23 naim wrote:On March 25 2011 10:47 iloveroo wrote: @naim
What do you mean buying better components? and from what I've read the onboard chip isn't really that great.... I don't get what you're trying to say and imply Erm...say a gf gtx 460 is 160$. an i5-2500k is ~100$ more than the i3, take it and you sill have 60$ left. The onboard chip isn't that good, true. Picking all components and then upgrading soon makes no sense either. I dont know your budget and what components you choose, it was just an idea of what i would do. ... wth, youre still not making any sense.. the i5 is $100 more than the i3, thats more than my budget How do I still have $60 left? because you obviously don't read what people post. Here is the quintessence: Don't buy a dedicated graphics card now, use the onboard GPU of a better sandy CPU and upgrade later.
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Any decent video card is 100000x better than the integrated card. I'm currently using the i3-2100 with an ATI 5770 card which gives me 170 FPS on medium. Without the card, I'm only getting 30 FPS with the intergrated card.
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Don't buy a dedicated graphics card now, use the onboard GPU of a better sandy CPU and upgrade later.
Not if he plans to play any game more recent than Starcraft 1.
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On March 26 2011 08:41 Soleron wrote:Show nested quote +Don't buy a dedicated graphics card now, use the onboard GPU of a better sandy CPU and upgrade later.
Not if he plans to play any game more recent than Starcraft 1.
Yeah I wasn't gonna do what he said anyways don't feel like playing starcraft 2 in low settings.
And starcraft 2 isn't the only game im going to play, wow and d3 when it comes out.
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How reliable is the onboard gpu on the 2nd gen's? Is it as good at 5770? or worst? Tbh, I don't feel like getting the i5-2500k with bad graphics over an i3-2100 that i can easily upgrade within a couple months with good dedicated graphics
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whichever setup is cheaper, get that lol
sandy bridge would be better for games but the phenom will still net you 60fps on most games with a solid graphics card i think, you dont need anymore than that.
as for the graphics card, they both perform pretty similar so id go with the 6850 because it uses less power under load, so you can save money on a power supply
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On March 26 2011 10:43 iloveroo wrote:How reliable is the onboard gpu on the 2nd gen's? Is it as good at 5770? or worst? Tbh, I don't feel like getting the i5-2500k with bad graphics over an i3-2100 that i can easily upgrade within a couple months with good dedicated graphics
Onboard graphics for i5-2500k is the Intel HD Graphics 3000; the non-k processors get the HD Graphics 2000 which has half the execution units. Anyway, the Intel HD 3000 is a little faster than the Radeon HD 5450, which is itself roughly a tenth as powerful as a HD 5770. It can probably crank out SC2 on low but not really any more. Application and game compatibility with Intel integrated graphics is better than it used to be, but it's not like an AMD or Nvidia GPU.
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On March 26 2011 10:43 iloveroo wrote: How reliable is the onboard gpu on the 2nd gen's? Is it as good at 5770? or worst? Tbh, I don't feel like getting the i5-2500k with bad graphics over an i3-2100 that i can easily upgrade within a couple months with good dedicated graphics i don't want to convince you to anything, do whatever you like. I can only tell for my first own pc i choose an AMD Duron 800 + GF2MX over an Athlon...2 months later i regret that since the shitty cheap duron couldn't handle decoding a DVB-S stream from a brand new internal dvb card i just bought. -.- From this time on I tend to plan forwards and get well rounded components...or none.
You are talking about a 5770...do you already have one? What are the other components you are going to buy?
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@naim
I thank you for trying to help me, i really do.
And no I don't have 5770, I was just asking if the i5-2500k onboard gpu was just as good as the 5770, but I doubt it is, i might be wrong but who knows.
mobo; http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7343083&Sku=A455-3037 gpu; probably radeon 6850 1gb ram; 4gb dual channel DDR3 psu; was gonna go for ultra 650w (my brother built his own computer, he told me I need more than 500w for gaming and to get ultra because of its lifetime warrenty if i register it.) hdd; was thinking WD 500gb 7200 dvd; not gonna link it, cause it doesn't really matter. planning on getting the cheapest one i could get
Would link all of them but im pretty lazy rofl. now for the cpu, im probably leaning towards the i3-2100
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the 6850 uses something like 90w during gaming (was on xbitlabs), you wont get anywhere near 650watts. this + sandy bridge means you could get away with a 380 earthwatts psu like belial has (he has a gtx 460 which sucks even more power.) just be mindful of the connectors required though. i think the 6850 needs 2 x 6pin connectors and some of the lower wattage psus dont have both. something like an antec tp-550 would give you PLENTY of watts to spare and have both connectors
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it is amazing how ppl dont get what hes doing
he isnt going to upg it to a 2500k he just wants to know the dif between the 2...
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Those parts don't top 250W at full synthetic load, honestly, as a very conservative estimate. Even if you upgrade your CPU (but stick with socket 1155), overclock the CPU, upgrade to a top-end single GPU like a GTX 580 and overclock that some, you won't be using more than 500W.
edit: HD 6850 just needs single 6-pin PCI-E power connector. Overclock it and stress test it, and you'll struggle to pull anything like 150W from that.
Also, as mentioned multiple times before, many Ultra PSUs are pretty bad. At one point, the LSP750 sold was the same platform and similar to the Ultra X2 750W. They like to switch manufacturers and relabel different things as the same thing. Some units under the label are pretty good, but the LSP units don't get sent out to reviewers since they're the lower-end line I think.
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On March 26 2011 12:07 Myrmidon wrote:Those parts don't top 250W at full synthetic load, honestly, as a very conservative estimate. Even if you upgrade your CPU (but stick with socket 1155), overclock the CPU, upgrade to a top-end single GPU like a GTX 580 and overclock that some, you won't be using more than 500W. edit: HD 6850 just needs single 6-pin PCI-E power connector. Overclock it and stress test it, and you'll struggle to pull anything like 150W from that. Also, as mentioned multiple times before, many Ultra PSUs are pretty bad. At one point, the LSP750 sold was the same platform and similar to the Ultra X2 750W. They like to switch manufacturers and relabel different things as the same thing. Some units under the label are pretty good, but the LSP units don't get sent out to reviewers since they're the lower-end line I think.
just one 6pin, my bad
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On March 25 2011 09:00 bflip wrote: i'd get the 2100, better architecture then 955, overall better processor shown in benchmarks, also leaves you to upgrade where as am3 is soon to be at the end of its day, 6850 is a great card btw, as u see i have it lol, andi m at 1920x1080 Am3 being the end of its day ? If you talk about the hexacore or whatever then sure, but am3 still have a LONG way to live... I bought an AM3 card 1 year ago on purpose because i was about to upgrade to phenom2 x6 later and let my comp run for probably 5 or 6 years.
On March 26 2011 03:59 naim wrote:Show nested quote +On March 26 2011 02:16 iloveroo wrote:On March 25 2011 21:23 naim wrote:On March 25 2011 10:47 iloveroo wrote: @naim
What do you mean buying better components? and from what I've read the onboard chip isn't really that great.... I don't get what you're trying to say and imply Erm...say a gf gtx 460 is 160$. an i5-2500k is ~100$ more than the i3, take it and you sill have 60$ left. The onboard chip isn't that good, true. Picking all components and then upgrading soon makes no sense either. I dont know your budget and what components you choose, it was just an idea of what i would do. ... wth, youre still not making any sense.. the i5 is $100 more than the i3, thats more than my budget How do I still have $60 left? because you obviously don't read what people post. Here is the quintessence: Don't buy a dedicated graphics card now, use the onboard GPU of a better sandy CPU and upgrade later. He's not necessarily wrong since the current graphics cards haven't improved a lot lately. I mean the 6750/6770 are just rename of the 5750/5770 except maybe 10% more performance (and still doesn't apply on every games). Dunno about the 6850/6870 though. If you have a low budget like me, but want to upgrade it later then there's nothing wrong to get a cheap cpu+gpu with a very good motherboard.
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Well i was suppose to get a bundle but my brother said not to get it because of the 500w psu, so I had to repick everything and just got a 650w
With all the parts I listed, this will bring it to a total of $800ish this does not include tax and also with the parts I picked I wouldn't have to upgrade for awhile only a couple of the parts I would have to, but that is going to be optional.
edit; the only reason why its costing $800 is because of 23or24" monitor thats included in the price
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The deal is just that the 650W in question is somewhat likely to be less reliable and worse in performance than some cheaper 380-430W that could also run your system easily, even if you want to upgrade.
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