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Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: Mistgun_Zero on May 14, 2014, 04:46:10 PM ---So basically I will be have huge bottleneck even if I have a decent gpu huh?! Well I wanted to keep the budget within the cost of a PS4. If I have to upgrade the motherboard as well might as well be an i3/i5. The fact that if I built this build it will only last only for a year since both me and my brother will be moving out and really don't want to spend much on it now. (In that scenario a PS4 would be much easier to take around). Supposing i do make a PC which of the above cards would you recommend as I am not really willing to spend more than that (Last I checked those cards would give a decent 40-50fps on 1080p which is much better than PS4/xbox).
Edit: also which CPU should I look for in i3/i5 (intel only cause stuff like MATLAB and autoCad behave better with that). If possible can we get a budget of $350 for CPU+ GPU. That will have some extra left out for motherboard and power supply (500w enough?)
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AutoCAD? Isn't that CPU intensive program? .. I would say an i5. There are i3s with 4 threads but they only have 2 CPUs.
Mistgun_Zero:
If you know how to use if properly, you can make it dance even on a core 2 duo. :P. But that's not the main point. It's mostly for gaming, and I am much comfortable with intel.
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: Mistgun_Zero on May 14, 2014, 05:31:59 PM ---If you know how to use if properly, you can make it dance even on a core 2 duo. :P. But that's not the main point. It's mostly for gaming, and I am much comfortable with intel.
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Intel does it better at everything. Always have.
Go with an i3 with hyperthreading. It costs 110 to 120 USD. Great for mid-end gaming and standalone computer for heavy encoding (its not as fast as an i5 or the beasty i7 but gets the job done when left alone).
halfelite:
autocad run fine on an I3. I run autocad 2014 and rasterdesign 2014 on my home I3 with 8 gb of ram from an ssd it loads in about 3 seconds and no stutters zooming in and out of drawings. I run it at work on an i5 with 8gb of ram and from a sata drive. and there is no huge difference between the i3 and 5 for autocad.
kitamesume:
i3-4130 + a $70 board would only push $190~$200, that leaves you with $150 or so for GPU, plenty for a mid-end R9-270 was it? or a more power efficient GTX750Ti.
edit: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/kitame/saved/4Gxk
picked HD7870 since its slightly cheaper than the OCed 750Ti, to note the 750Ti vs HD7870 is a give or take, depends on games favoring Nvidia or favoring AMD.
theres also one big note, AMD's mantle feature (if the game supports mantle) could boost performance on weaker processors, so the i3 would get some performance benefit from AMD.
on the other hand the 750Ti would consume roughly half the power of the HD7870.
on another note, that HD7870 from powercolor seems to suffer overheating issues, well typical of AMD cards but powercolor isn't a great brand either so bad became worse.
edit: ohh and as usual, amd's 14.x drivers are utterly unstable. i'm on 13.12 and is stable for me.
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