looking into buying a rig next month, about £600quid, been looking at the i5 platform, i do a lot of image editing, web design, and gaming, however, this budget doesn't need to include, a gfx card, or anything outside the box. Also, i'd like a PSU that is good for overclocking. Can anyone suggest what to get? Can anyone recommend the Phenom II platform at all? Or should i stick to i5 for now?
If you dont need a GFX card or monitor, you should be able to have an i5 CPU for £600. And no, AMD can't really compete with i5/i7.
i was looking at this months "Media Editing PC" in CPC, page 120.. priced at £524, will a 400watt PSU be able to take the overclocking of the cpu? i know u can OC the i5 with the corsair H50-1 watercooling to the regions of 4ghz, and im not that bothered about having sli, i'd just buy a better card when needed.
first option i5: case http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Cool...w-o-PSU-(New-Improved-Version)-Scan-Exclusive psu http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/400W-Corsair-Power-Series-PSU-ATX-PS-2-UK-Version-3-year-warranty mobo http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Giga...-E-20(x16)-DDR3-1066-1333-2200-SATAIIRAID-ATX cpu http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Inte...66Ghz-(Lynnfield)-8M-Cache-LGA1156-CPU-Retail cooler http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Arct...1156-S775-AM3-AM2plus-AM2-939-Up-to-130-Watts! ram http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/4GB-...1333)-240-Pin-Non-ECC-Unbuffered-CAS-9-9-9-24 hdd http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/500G...HD502HJ-SATA-3Gb-s-7200rpm-16Mb-Cache-8ms-OEM optical drive http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Sony-AD-5240S-0B-24x-DVDR-12xDVDDL-DVDRW-x8-RWx6-SATA-Black fan http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/120mm-Coolermaster-Silent-Internal-Case-Fan-with-Blue-LED-Quiet-22db total=513 second option i7: case http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Cool...w-o-PSU-(New-Improved-Version)-Scan-Exclusive psu http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/400W-Corsair-Power-Series-PSU-ATX-PS-2-UK-Version-3-year-warranty mobo http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Giga...CI-E-20x16-DDR3-1333-SATA-3Gb-s-SATA-RAID-ATX cpu http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Intel-i7-920-Socket-1366-(B)-Nehalem-266GHz-Cache-8MB-OEM cooler http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Akas...0-AM2-AM2plus)-Heat-Pipe-cooler-120mm-PWM-fan ram http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/3GB-...1333)-240-Pin-Non-ECC-Unbuffered-CAS-9-9-9-24 hdd http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/500G...HD502HJ-SATA-3Gb-s-7200rpm-16Mb-Cache-8ms-OEM optical drive http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Sony-AD-5240S-0B-24x-DVDR-12xDVDDL-DVDRW-x8-RWx6-SATA-Black fan http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/120mm-Coolermaster-Silent-Internal-Case-Fan-with-Blue-LED-Quiet-22db total=542
the one i chose but if you want something which is more future get this one http://www.kikatek.com/product_info.php?products_id=66674&source=froogle
that second build is amazin.....and cheap, i was gonna do an AMD build but i may be swayed into an extra £100 for this'n
X58 or P55 bagman you list 2 diff boards for the builds , p55 on the i5 build ,x58 on the i7 which is best & why? Thanks. ive been out the loop for a while....
x58 chipset is for 1366 socket boards which is the i7 range, the p55 chipset is for socket 1156 processors including the i5 and some i7 processors, yeah, lovely intel marketing
go down the 1366 socket route as that is going to be more upgrade able in the futre, it is more future proof and it overclocks better
just as an aditional point isnt the MSI X58M http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/MSI-...16)-SLI-Triple-DDR3-1333-SATA-3Gb-s-RAID-MATX better than the Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R its £5 cheaper and i know it is MATX rather than ATX but it has space for 6RAM sticks rather than the 4 on the Gigabyte and seems to hit on par with everything else
that is a small price to pay as the gigabyte is more attractive, overclocks better and gives better performance and it is atx rather than matx and has a better layout
is being MATX in itself a bad thing? iv been comparing the two in CPC 072 and the MSI seems to come on top in all but Gimp image editing (9points diff) and Crysis frame rates (1fps diff) weighing this against being able to hold nearly twice as much RAM doesn't seem like much of a competition when the MSI wins by 69 points in multi tasking, 68 i9n H.264 encoding, 43 overall and tiues on Max stable QPI. im asking cos i dont know, not challenging your statement at all.
you'd have to be doing some very serious image editing for it to get to 3GB i do some pretty heavy photoshop and rarely (although sometimes) get issues using 2Gb, 3 should be enough, although 6 would mince just about anything
