I have a friend looking at building a computer. He has budget of 550$, and plans on playing MC, Skyrim, and a few others. He will be getting a keyboard, mouse, and monitor on a separate budget. This is what I have so far, any improvements? http://pcpartpicker.com/p/6lH0 I'm not great with this budget. Reducing the price by about 20$ would be nice, just to get it in budget.
Where can I join the server after I downloaded the folding program? I disabled signatures and not sure how to re-enable them if you guys have the info in a signature
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Also, I got my folding rig up and running, working nicely.
The RAM seems good, since I am a huge gamer and my PC has to run games from 2008 and before. The hard drive is best, since I had 149GB on my current system, now I have 47.0GB, not sure how. The Graphics card seems pretty good, seems to run a decent amount of games.
You will never use anywhere near 16 GB of RAM in games. I know, as I have 16 GB or RAM, and it is only used when edting phtos and video.
You seem to be ignoring APUs ever all even desktop at the price range Intel does not win. Sure they have better CPU performance but you would have to spend 80$ extra to get a dedicated card.
Actually, for the same price as an A8-3870K, you can get a Pentium G620 and a 6670, which will out preform the APU for gaming.
However, the A8 does better than the Pentium + 6670 for non-gaming things, so it's a trade-off. And, mobile APUs will always win in their price range.
Really? Cuz there the only high speed internet service that is offered anywhere near where i live, so its either this or dialup.
It doesn't sound like a monopoly, just like they are the only company that wants to cover the area. Even if there are laws against monopolies, they can't make another company cover that area "because that other company has a monopoly on the area".
No becuase a $140 Bulldozer cost more then a ~$100 i3.
He said that what you get from "throwing together all the most expensive parts", which was quite wrong. Of course, the 100$ i3 would be a better choice.
Intel is reusing its socket 1155 for ivy bridge, and I bet for after that too. And what do you mean AMD costs less? Intel has better performance in every single price range.
Intel will not be using 1155 for Haswell (Ivy's successor), they will be moving to 1150. But yes, there is currently no reason to buy AMD, Intel beats it in every price range (a lowend Intel CPU + a lowend GPU will even beat an APU for the same price).
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Also, I got my folding rig up and running, working nicely.
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RAM =/= Speed.
8 GB will be more than enough. when gaming, even on the most intense games, I only use at most 4 GB. At most.
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You will never use anywhere near 16 GB of RAM in games. I know, as I have 16 GB or RAM, and it is only used when edting phtos and video.
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Oh, ok, that makes sense. Good luck on your build.
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But the new mobo is only 5$ more, the second build is ~100$ more.
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Looks good. What brought up the price by 100$ from the one in the OP?
Sidenote, but isn't Power Supply usually abbreviated PSU, not PW?
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I'm pretty sure the 560ti outperforms the 6870.
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Actually, for the same price as an A8-3870K, you can get a Pentium G620 and a 6670, which will out preform the APU for gaming.
However, the A8 does better than the Pentium + 6670 for non-gaming things, so it's a trade-off. And, mobile APUs will always win in their price range.
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It doesn't sound like a monopoly, just like they are the only company that wants to cover the area. Even if there are laws against monopolies, they can't make another company cover that area "because that other company has a monopoly on the area".
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He said that what you get from "throwing together all the most expensive parts", which was quite wrong. Of course, the 100$ i3 would be a better choice.
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This. AMD wins for laptops because mobile APUs are great. However, for desktops, Intel is all around better.
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Because a ~140$ Bulldozer CPU costs more than a ~1000$ i7 Extreme right?
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Intel will not be using 1155 for Haswell (Ivy's successor), they will be moving to 1150. But yes, there is currently no reason to buy AMD, Intel beats it in every price range (a lowend Intel CPU + a lowend GPU will even beat an APU for the same price).