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Kezzer
United States1268 Posts
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benbrad2
103 Posts
My budget: $200~$250 Purpose: Gaming Current CPU: Amd x2 4400+ 2.4ghz Current Ram: 800MHZ, 2GB Right now I have Neon HE 550Watt, which has been running for 5 years now. Let me know if your recommended set-up (cpu, ram, mobo) will be fine with my current PSU. Thanks ! | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
A core i3 2100 is better than any Phenom II processor for gaming: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-sandy-bridge-review-intel-core-i7-2600k-i5-2500k-core-i3-2100-tested/20 http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core-i5-2500-2400-2300_7.html#sect0 Currently $115 on Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115078 A H61 / H67 motherboard that pairs with this would cost around $60 - $90. 4GB of 1333MHz DDR3 is less than $40. That would be within your budget | ||
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benbrad2
103 Posts
Holy smokes that was the fastest response ever ! Thanks for such a quick response. Will (550watt Neon He) be enough to power this? My gpu is XFX 9800GT Which is old but still decent | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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EtherealDeath
United States8366 Posts
On June 21 2011 23:29 JingleHell wrote: Bear in mind, SLI doesn't scale to 200% of single card performance pretty much ever. Current average range is something like 160%-190%. SLI is also a headache if you play games with bad scaling. I'm using regular 460 1GBs in SLI, OCed to 763, and I only tolerate the heat and noise because I love fiddling with stuff for no good reason. If nothing else, get the 768mb 460's and SLI those, at least they're faster, and with 2 of them for extra video RAM, you'll get pretty hot performance if you aren't doing something crazy with resolution. Certainly compared to the SE. Bear in mind, the 768mb is still a bit slower than the 1GB due to some bandwidth stuff. 460 SE is usually faster than the 768 is it not? | ||
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benbrad2
103 Posts
On June 22 2011 14:30 skyR wrote: Yes it will be, the core i3 2100 consumes less than 50w under load which iirc is less than your current processor. Thanks alot ! I was going to make a mistake buying amd phenom 955. But after reading through i3-2100 just may be what I was looking for ! Are there any cheap motherboards for 1155 slot? I plan on only using 1333mhz 4gb ram. No sli, no additional hard-drive. Just the most generic motherboard I can find. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
On June 22 2011 14:31 EtherealDeath wrote: 460 SE is usually faster than the 768 is it not? You are mistaken, the GTX 460 SE is not usually faster than the 768mb variant. It's performance lies between the GTX 460 768 variant and GTS 450. The GTX 460 768mb variant is nearly identical in terms of specs to the original 1GB variant whereas the SE variant has less cores and texture units along with slower clock speeds. On June 22 2011 14:34 benbrad2 wrote: Thanks alot ! I was going to make a mistake buying amd phenom 955. But after reading through i3-2100 just may be what I was looking for ! Are there any cheap motherboards for 1155 slot? I plan on only using 1333mhz 4gb ram. No sli, no additional hard-drive. Just the most generic motherboard I can find. If you want the least expensive one available: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157241 If you want one with USB3 and SATA3: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157236 There may also be combo deals on Newegg for the processor and a motherboard so you may want to look into that. | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
GTX 460 SE has 288 CUDA cores and 32 ROPs at 650/1300 MHz Core/Mem. GTX 460 768MB has 336 CUDA cores and 24 ROPs at 675/1350 MHz Core/Mem. GTX 460 1GB has 336 CUDA cores and 32 ROPs at 675/1350 MHz Core/Mem. It depends on the instructions being run, but generally the extra CUDA cores on the GTX 768MB are more important than the extra ROPs and VRAM of the SE. I see I'm late in posting this, but I'll do it anyway since I'm bitter like that. I already had it typed out.  | ||
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.Mystic
Canada486 Posts
My specs are i5 2400 asrock h61m-vs 1tb seagate 4gb g.skill ripjaw HIS radeon HD 5850 Antec neo eco 450w Edit: i got windows 7 64bit ultimate, upgraded from pro my temps are fine, no OC, only happens when watching video or stream, playing games its fine Ive tried uninstalling then deleting the old drivers, then using ccleaner, then reinstalling fresh drivers, that didn't help. ran dskchk, fix dskchk, nothing worked so far. Anyone might have any ideas? | ||
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benbrad2
103 Posts
To sum up my current build: Mobo: $59.99 - ASRock H61M-VS Socket 1155 Intel H61 CPU: $129 - i3-2100 RAM: ? Btw, I couldn't find any combo deals for i3-2100 and mobo, maybe i'm looking in the wrong page o.O As for ram, what would best go with my setup? | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
Maybe it's something weird with Flash and the graphics card. It's more of a workaround to try than a solution, but try disabling hardware (GPU) acceleration. The i5-2400 should be plenty fast enough. http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/help01.html And it goes without saying hopefully, to try updating Adobe Flash. This is all assuming that all the videos you're talking about are Flash. | ||
Womwomwom
5930 Posts
On June 22 2011 14:46 HCmystic wrote: hey i have a video card trouble. Ever since i built my comp, whenever i watch streams on Teamliquid especially, also happens sometimes when watching youtube or other videos, the screen goes blank, green or blue and than back to normal, saying the display drivers has stopped working and recovered. My specs are i5 2400 asrock h61m-vs 1tb seagate 4gb g.skill ripjaw HIS radeon HD 5850 Antec neo eco 450w Edit: i got windows 7 64bit ultimate, upgraded from pro my temps are fine, no OC, only happens when watching video or stream, playing games its fine Ive tried uninstalling then deleting the old drivers, then using ccleaner, then reinstalling fresh drivers, that didn't help. ran dskchk, fix dskchk, nothing worked so far. Anyone might have any ideas? Turn hardware acceleration in Flash off. Right click the flash video -> click settings -> untick hardware acceleration. Its a problem with the HD5850. Who knows why, they used to get grey screens of death a while ago and I don't think anyone figured out the reason for it. On June 22 2011 14:48 benbrad2 wrote: Thanks skyR and Myrmidon for your help ! To sum up my current build: Mobo: $59.99 - ASRock H61M-VS Socket 1155 Intel H61 CPU: $129 - i3-2100 RAM: ? Btw, I couldn't find any combo deals for i3-2100 and mobo, maybe i'm looking in the wrong page o.O As for ram, what would best go with my setup? 2x2GB kit of the cheapest memory you can find. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
If disabling hardware acceleration doesn't work. You can try an older driver version and downclocking the clocks using MSI Afterburner. @benbrad2 There's basically no good combos for the core i3 2100 currently on Newegg so don't worry about it. You can just get a single 4GB kit: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231423 Remember to use promo code DM15JN11US for 15% off. | ||
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benbrad2
103 Posts
No difference compared to dual channel ? | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231394 | ||
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Raagruk
Canada66 Posts
thanks in advance Raag What is your budget? $400-600 CDN What is your resolution? 1600*900 What are you using it for? Mostly gaming What is your upgrade cycle? 2 years+ When do you plan on building it? In September Do you plan on overclocking? no Do you need an Operating System? yes windows 7 please Do you plan to add a second GPU for SLI or Crossfire? not at this time Where are you buying your parts from? I live in Canada so i have access to Newegg and perhaps Tiger Direct but id prefer Newegg | ||
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Empyrean
17070 Posts
Case Lian Li PC-Q08 (black) 110 CPU i5-2400 190 MOBO Gigabyte GA-H55N-USB3 105 RAM Gskill Ripjaws 2x4GB 75 PSU SilverStone Strider ST50f-P 500 W 80 GPU XFX HD-685X-ZDFC Radeon HD6850 1GB 256-bit 175 HDD WD C.Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200RPM 32MB 85 Cable (newegg only has bare drives) 5 Fan Scythe Slipstreams 15 (ea) Opt.Dr. Random 15 W.Adap. Random 15 Subtotal: 870 + multiples of 15 (fans) Monitor/Keyboard/Speaker budget 250 Total: 1120 + multiples of 15 (fans) Note that I won't actually be building this until early September/Early August, and things'll likely change, especially prices on newegg. Does this look like a good preliminary build, though? Also, how many fans will I need? <_< This is my first time building a computer and I'm gonna be completely new at it. Anything I should watch out for? EDIT: Not planning on overclocking, but I might move my OS/programs to an SSD eventually. They're just too expensive at the moment for me. | ||
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Womwomwom
5930 Posts
The only thing you need to do is watch this and plan how you are going to route your cables and install all of your hardware. Because this is a mITX case with a full size ATX PSU, you are going to need to plan this out otherwise its going to end up fairly messy - I've built a lot of computers and these mITX cases with lots of hardware are always the most annoying to build in. Buy a pack of zipties from the $2 store before you build it to shorten cable lengths if they are too long. Because you have a fully modular power supply, I suggest installing the PSU last. That gives you significantly more room to connect everything up. | ||
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