thats all I am looking to upgrade since thats the oldest of everything I have and what I am looking at is this stuff:
intel i7 2600
ASRock motherboard
G-skill memory
anyone have experience with asrock motherboards, are they any good?
looking for another setup that will last another 4-5 years, I dont overclock, I dont do too much gaming but I would use it for programming. $500 is my limit to what I want to spend
The FX eight cores are useless compared to the Sandy Bridges.
If I was you, I would save and go with a Core i5-2500k. Newegg price is $230 for it. This is what Toms had to say on the matter
CPUs priced over $220 offer rapidly diminishing returns when it comes to game performance. As such, we have a hard time recommending anything more expensive than the Core i5-2500K, especially since this multiplier-unlocked processor can be tuned to great effect if more performance is desired. Even at stock clocks, it meets or beats the $1000 Core i7-990X Extreme Edition when it comes to gaming.
Our tests demonstrate fairly little difference between a $225 LGA 1155 Core i5-2500K and a $1000 LGA 2011 Core i7-3960X, even when three-way graphics card configurations are involved. It turns out that memory bandwidth and PCIe throughput don’t hold back the performance of existing Sandy Bridge machines.
Yea the Core i5 2500 or the i7 2600 are the best for the money right now I was looking at building another computer since my stupid quad core setup I have now only takes DDR2 and the give away DDR3 lol
always go intel the sandy bridge i7 is faster than an 8 core amd… I usually stick with asus board … just did a build a couple months ago and love it. i7-2600k, 16 gb ddr3 ram, 1000w psu, water cooled cpu, asus bored , two 6950 clocked to 6970’s, 3 single tb hdd’s.
The and fx is a great chip, intel is a waste of money because kno one actually does anything impressive like crunch SETI or massive amounts of high end programs, for the price of a fx chip compared to a quad intel chip your better off getting the octcore fx amd, stats don’t mean shit to me because none of you use the chips to the fullest ability. If you wanna blow your money on intel go ahead your just wasting your money when you can get better for cheaper. I just made a octcore fx amd system for my friend with 16gb ram and it’s over kill for anyone unless you are gaming, rendering video, encoding video etc, I’ve seen comparable amd and intel systems load programs and the intel did it slower then amd, fuck my friend bought a $1,000 core 2 quad extreme before and it was good until the new chips poped out a few months later. It’s a never ending battle with technology because it changes everyday, basicly if your on a budget and want a good system go with amd if you want big dick baller status that loves to blow money then go intel…
I wanted to get one with that saves more power. 35 watt is there best it looks like. I hope they made like a Atom + i type CPU in one chip so you can do the power way down then up to 35 watts when you need it. But for just Text and web stuff you don’t need to use all that power.
-Raymond Day
First comment on Maximum PC…who the fuck cares about power? If you’re getting a high end chip, it’s not going to be “green”. The Atom processors suck dick (not literally that’d be awesome).
I play Battlefield three, do graphic design and some other stuff, so I don’t want a shitty CPU.