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JimmyD
United States67 Posts
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T GPU: XFX Radeon HD 5850 HSF: Thermaltake SpinQ RAM: Mushkin Enhanced Silverline 1333MHz 8GB HDD: Seagate 7200RPM 500GB SATA 6.0Gbps PSU: NZXT Hale90 650W 80+ Gold rating Case: BitFenix Survivor I'm torn between the two because of the price difference, with few things being different. I plan on upgrading over time (getting a Bulldozer CPU, different GPUs, etc.). What do you guys think? Links to two motherboards: M5A97 EVO M5A99X EVO | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
I don't see a compelling reason for the M5A99X EVO since it looks like the main selling point over the M5A97 EVO is SLI support. Though actually, I'd just get the normal M5A97 unless you need the FireWire or whatever else is on the M5A97 EVO, or are looking to push some pretty high overclocks. | ||
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JimmyD
United States67 Posts
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
Not to be patronizing, but I just want to check to make sure you really have urgent need of all those cores, for the Phenom II X6 and then the FX-8100, because you'll be sacrificing a lot of money and getting worse single-threaded and gaming performance compared to an i5-2500k. About the power supply, I guess the plan is for future Crossfire or SLI? Are you picking the Hale90 for performance or for the white color? I ask because internally the Sentey Golden Steel Power 650W is exactly the same, and it's selling for $113, which is generally less than the NZXT Hale90 650W: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817322009 It's the same Super Flower Golden Green platform also in the Kingwin Lazer Gold and Rosewil Lightning. | ||
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JimmyD
United States67 Posts
I plan on doing CPU folding with the cores, and stopping the current bottleneck I have on my GPU with the Phenom X4 9750. The reason I'm getting the PSU is because I'm trading a Q8400 I'm getting from a friend for that PSU and a 30GB SSD from another friend. | ||
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JimmyD
United States67 Posts
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
If you want a modular 650W unit, the Golden Green units described earlier are going to be better. The Corsair AX650 and Seasonic X-650/660 are better as well, but they're probably significantly more expensive. I suspect the TX650M may be better as well, but it's a new unit with pricing maybe higher than it should be. There's no review yet. Were there any reports that the next Bulldozer architecture or revision would also be on AM3+? What we do know is that Ivy Bridge will still be on LGA 1155, and there probably should be a six-core Ivy Bridge processor on that socket. | ||
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JimmyD
United States67 Posts
I think #2 is better, since I get the PSU in my hands right away. | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
As for things actually listed as in store locations, maybe the OCZ ModXStream Pro (not nearly as good but not bad) would be the best. It seems like the locations are full of the crap units, as would be expected. | ||
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JimmyD
United States67 Posts
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