BMAPC help with mobo and cpu choices

[Ch3tan]

Hi guys,

So no one had any ddr2 ram going free for me. At nearly £120 for 8gb currently (and for fairly shitty latency stuff) I think it's possibly cheaper for me to upgrade.

I've currently got a gigabyte mobo for a socket 775 c2d 2 core.

I want at least an i5 with HT or better, I don't deal with AMD CPU's unless someone can give me a good argument for dithcing intel?

I don't want to spend more than £300.

I want mobo + cpu and 8gb of ram.

Will keep current GPU, case and PSU. Will probably get a SSD as a boot drive as well.

Suggestions?

 

[caLLous]

Well. The i5 line only has HT on the dual core models, so they have 4 threads altogether. None of the quad-core i5's have HT, you'll have to step up to the i7 line for 8+ thread chips. It depends what you're going to be doing with it tbh. You'll struggle to get a mobo + ram + i7 for less than 300 notes, though.

In other news I have a mATX mobo (Gigabyte H87M-HD3) + cpu (i3-4340 with retail heatsink attached) going up for sale at some point soon.

 

[Raven]

I3 will do for sub ultra settings gaming tbh, my old PC was an I3 and was fine for running skyrim on ultra - AMD 6670 (or something like that) GPU.

 

[Raven]

http://www.ebuyer.com/538188-intel-...mb-cache-retail-boxed-processor-bx80646i34130 £79.10

http://www.ebuyer.com/507049-gigabyte-ga-h87-hd3-socket-1150-motherboard-ga-h87-hd3 £70.07

http://www.ebuyer.com/262580-corsair-8gb-ddr3-1600mhz-vengeance-memory-cmz8gx3m2a1600c9b £64.98

http://www.ebuyer.com/539151-samsung-120gb-ssd-840-evo-ssd-only-mz-7te120bw £68.99

£283.14 Total

Bosh

Throw a little bit more at it if you like and you can improve the processor.

 

[caLLous]

I never did anything strenuous with it tbh, it was in my HTPC before I upgraded my media server CPU/mobo so I put the older-but-more-powerful i5-3570k into the HTPC.

Anyway, you could get something like an Intel Core i5-4570 3.20GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail (£150ish), Asus Z87-K Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard (£90ish) and 8gb of RAM (£60ish) for 300 notes.

 

[soze]

You could also check out CPU Benchmark and pick out an AMD that gets you more bang for your buck. I still believe AMD offer better value on low budget systems.

 

[Athan]

The one thing to keep in mind for CPU and gaming is that multiplayer games tend to hit them much harder. If you really only do single-player gaming then the lower spec/cheaper CPUs will be fine, but if you ever end up playing an MMO in busy areas or games like Planetside 2 you'll want as much CPU bang as your bucks can supply.

 

[MYstIC G]

Hit up the today only stuff on Scan fella. You can get some very decent bundles but you have to wait it out.

 

[MYstIC G]

Check out today only 7 fella, all you're after plus a drive for £303 then you can sell the drive

 

[Ch3tan]

Cheers, think I'll wait a while... @caLLous might be interested in your second hand shizzle...can't justify the 300 right now!

 

[Ch3tan]

@caLLous, you still selling your mobo and i3?

 

[caLLous]

Yessir! I haven't actually got around to trying to sell it yet.

 

[Ch3tan]

Pm me!

 

[Litmus]

Will you be over clocking or not?