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Gaming PC, need your opinion - DoomDude1 - 10-15-2012 Well Fearless, the situation is like this: My current PC is several years old and it's configuration looks like this: Processor: Intel Core2Duo E7200 @ 2.53 GHz on both RAM: Kingston 4GB Graphic card: Nvidia 9800GT and Nvidia 8800GT Hard disk: 500 GB Motherboard: Really not sure, but it was good some 3 years ago Possible new configuration: Processor: INTEL Core i3-3240 2-Core 3.4GHz Box Board: GIGABYTE GA-Z77-DS3H Memory: 8gb kingston 1600MHz blu Hard drive: 1TB Hitachi SATA3 Tower: 450W DVDRW DVDRW Graphics: Gainward Nvidia GTX 560 SE All of that for 500 euros I was also thinking of keeping the old one as a server, or cannibalizing it for the RAM and the hard drives. So? Opinions? RE: Gaming PC, need your opinion - Trevor Jackson - 10-15-2012 Looks good, but you might want to go to an i5 if you can. RE: Gaming PC, need your opinion - DoomDude1 - 10-15-2012 (10-15-2012, 06:41 PM)bruterules Wrote: Looks good, but you might want to go to an i5 if you can. Well my techy friend told me that I can crank this one up to 4.2 with sufficient cooling (which I already have). I could go to i5 for some 77 euros added to the price. *EDIT* Meant to say i5 RE: Gaming PC, need your opinion - Trevor Jackson - 10-15-2012 (10-15-2012, 06:55 PM)Doomdude1 Wrote:(10-15-2012, 06:41 PM)bruterules Wrote: Looks good, but you might want to go to an i5 if you can. Only reason I say that is most games recommend a 4-core processor. RE: Gaming PC, need your opinion - wweee2345 - 10-15-2012 (10-15-2012, 04:51 PM)Doomdude1 Wrote: Well Fearless, the situation is like this: Switch out the Hitachi drive for a Western Digital drive, they have a much higher reliability rate than most Hitachi drives do. Get a GTX 660 since they are fairly cheap still and better than the GTX 560. No need to overclock it for more speed, the current CPU could easily run a GTX 670 without any bottleneck. If anything a i5-2500K might be a good switch or to an i5-3570K. RE: Gaming PC, need your opinion - DoomDude1 - 10-15-2012 (10-15-2012, 08:26 PM)wweee2345 Wrote: [quote='Doomdude1' pid='157646' dateline='1350319872'] Yeah, but what will that cost me then? Target price is 500 euros or under, won't the alterations stack up at least some 60 euros on the price? Perhaps more. RE: Gaming PC, need your opinion - wweee2345 - 10-16-2012 (10-15-2012, 08:40 PM)Doomdude1 Wrote:(10-15-2012, 08:26 PM)wweee2345 Wrote: [quote='Doomdude1' pid='157646' dateline='1350319872'] Keeping the i3, you'd be about $80-$90 over the normal price of the GTX 560 SE: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130826 But performing comparably better on some games: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/660?vs=543 So yes, around 60 Euros more in total. You'd be just as well off with either the Intel i3-2100: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115078 Or the i3-3220: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116775 Either way, the Sandy Bridge CPU's do clock higher, if you wish to overclock. Ivy Bridge can sometimes offer the same performance at a lower clock speed. In this case best to save a few euros or go for the i5-3570K/2500 or just an i5 in general. It's really up to how you'd want to fit it in your budget though. RE: Gaming PC, need your opinion - GeorgeTheBoy - 10-22-2012 Good specs. As suggested upgrade to an i5 processor. But apart from that it's all good. RE: Gaming PC, need your opinion - DoomDude1 - 10-24-2012 I suppose I might be able to tighten my belt, and squeeze some 80 euros or up to a 100 if my parents chip in as well (the 500 euros are mine alone). Perhaps I might acquire additional cash to get a better PC, but I will have to check the market out first. There is a chance of me getting a store-bought gaming PC for a much lower price than usual, which means there is a chance of getting a better configuration for the same price. |