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Starting to build my new rig, looking for opinions
MyonMyon:
I'm impressed by your marketing skills if you got $400 out of it :laugh:
I'm also voting for the i5 + $200 GFX card. You don't really need a i7 because most of the i5s OC really well and good enough multithreading is pretty much nonexistent in games (if you are using a lot of 3D modelling/photoshop/video editing you might wanna consider the i7, however). Just don't get the boxed one and buy the CPU cooler separately and you'll get the most out of your money.
Also, it's not necessary to buy the most expensive graphics card. The medium-priced ones are pretty powerful nowadays and will run practically any game on full settings on a single monitor (If you are going for a multiple monitor setup, you should consider the best and most expensive cards).
Maybe the most important thing is: don't try to save money on the power. Get a good one with enough wattage to power your rig. Corsair, Seasonic, Super Flower and XFX should be a few which won't blow up. That $30 extra is totally worth it compared to a bad PSU which could cause multiple problems.
GoGeTa006:
--- Quote from: MyonMyon on December 03, 2012, 09:56:16 PM ---I'm impressed by your marketing skills if you got $400 out of it :laugh:
I'm also voting for the i5 + $200 GFX card. You don't really need a i7 because most of the i5s OC really well and good enough multithreading is pretty much nonexistent in games (if you are using a lot of 3D modelling/photoshop/video editing you might wanna consider the i7, however). Just don't get the boxed one and buy the CPU cooler separately and you'll get the most out of your money.
Also, it's not necessary to buy the most expensive graphics card. The medium-priced ones are pretty powerful nowadays and will run practically any game on full settings on a single monitor (If you are going for a multiple monitor setup, you should consider the best and most expensive cards).
Maybe the most important thing is: don't try to save money on the power. Get a good one with enough wattage to power your rig. Corsair, Seasonic, Super Flower and XFX should be a few which won't blow up. That $30 extra is totally worth it compared to a bad PSU which could cause multiple problems.
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I used to be a salesman at Sears ;D
If you are enthused about your products, so will the customers
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on December 03, 2012, 09:26:04 PM ---
If you are going to do heavy tasking like encoding or large photo editing, you might want to hit the i7 with a 200 USD graphic card. If not, stick to the i5 and a 300 dollar USD graphic card. Also, a good note for you, if you DO NOT plan on overclocking your CPU then don't get the "K" sign towards the end of the processors - that's specifically designed for overclockers. You retain couple of nice features with the standard editions (you can still overclock those but they have some restrictions).
If you're able to wait until April, you'll get your tax return by then and the new Haswell processors will come out around March or April, following the release of the new graphic cards. I'm also reading that DDR4 will also come out, but that shit will be expensive.
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advantages of that?
I was planning on slightly overclocking it, and actually good thing you brought that up, how does the "turbo" thing work if you over clock?
and what are the advantages of not getting a processor ending in K?
I read that the Ivy bridge is pretty bad for OC'ing, thats why I was still debating if I should get Ivy/Sandy. . .I do plan on overclocking as I mentioned, but im not an "overlcocker", if the CPU performs good on stock, I'll leave it on stock, I did do OC back in the AMD > Intel days. . .
Say a 3.2 Ghz (Turbo 3.8 Ghz), what if I overclock it to 4.0 Ghz, does it automatically disable the turbo or will it go to something like 4.0 Ghz (Turbo 4.5 Ghz) or whatever?
buchno:
One disadvantage of getting one of the K-series is that they don't have VT-d (which is used to game in Virtualbox, for example).
mgz:
avoid anything small as far as case and mobo go, just makes it easier for everything to stay that much cooler extending the life of everything. Also dont know how big your hands are, but as someone with large hands. Fuck small cases
GoGeTa006:
--- Quote from: buchno on December 03, 2012, 10:24:33 PM ---One disadvantage of getting one of the K-series is that they don't have VT-d (which is used to game in Virtualbox, for example).
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I am not too familiar but isnt virtual machine something that wouldnt apply here since all the processing is done in the local and not some host? (AFAIK Virtual machine is like cloud computing? like an emulated computer that does all the processing for you while you just get the results)
that article talks about linux and stuff (still reading), so Im assuming that user is running multiple instances, where I see how virtual machines might come in handy, but for my purposes I dont think I'll be doing that, here is a little more about what I plan on doing:
- Heavy gaming
- Photoshop/Flash/Adobe stuff enthusiast
- Sony Vegas/Adobe Premiere enthusiast
- Engineering CAD (Solidworks and ProE mostly) for school, and hopefully work sometime soon
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and well offcourse all those basics, web surfing, torrenting, playing minesweeper. . .
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