Components for building a tower
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Hello, I am updating my pc, which is quite old (pentium 4, 1Gb of DDR ram...) the only thing I will keep is the Seagate 500GB Sata hard drive, the case, and a Tacens Radix 500W power supply.
My first question was whether to go with AMD or Intel, the use will be for office work, browsing, and occasionally some games, but not much.
I have been looking for information with two configurations, one with AMD and another with Intel. The budget is around 300-350€PC with Intel processor:
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-P67A-D3-B3
Processor Core i5 2400
Graphics Ati HD 5670 or 6570, still undecided, not sure which one is better.
Memory 2x2GB DDR3 1600MHZ or 2x4GB DDR3 1333MHZPC with AMD processor:
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H
Processor X6 1055T or X6 1090T
Graphics the same as the Intel one
Memory 2x2GB DDR3 1600MHZ or 2x4GB DDR3 1333MHZWhich one do you recommend? Anything to improve it as long as it doesn't go up much in price.
Regards and thanks
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Hello
First of all, I would discard those graphics cards, they are very mediocre, I wouldn't put anything less than an HD 6770 or a GTX 550, which are around 100 euros depending on the model.
The motherboard is not bad, although I would put an ASRock P67 or an Asus P8P67, some colleague will be able to recommend something better in this aspect.
Regarding the micro, as you may have seen around, the best option in terms of quality/price/potential performance is an i5 2500K, which, when overclocked, reaches very high levels, but I think that your budget and the use you will give it do not encourage such an outlay, so I think that the 2400 you put will be enough.
Also think about a decent heatsink, such as a Scythe Ninja.I see the memory as good, for example, a G.Skill Ripjaws of that type. I don't know how much it would change your budget, but you will certainly get more out of it.
Regards
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well, as I'm a bit busy right now, I'll just tell you for now to forget about AMD, the AMD FX Bulldozer already has "official" prices, and are already available for reservation when they come out, it's supposed to (a lot of guessing) that the "old" ones will lower prices to get rid of them. anyway, a 6cores for office work, Internet and some games? :nono::nono: for what it's worth, I don't know :mudo: before I thought it would be more reasonable a 4 cores at 3.4 and cheaper, because the 6 cores for now, I don't know what for
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The only thing I would change about this configuration is the graphics card. The minimum advisable is an HD6770 or a GTX550, advisable an HD6850 or a GTX460 that are about 130 €.
The motherboard is fine, although I would opt for ASUS P8P67.
With that board along with the i5 2400, a GTX550 (or HD6770) and two G.Skill Ripjaws modules of 2 GB 1333MHz you would be fine. Although as for the CPU, an i5 2500K costs about 30 euros more than the i5 2400
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