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Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Guest-18698, 8 Mar 2013.

  1. Guest-18698

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  2. Shirty

    Shirty W*nker! Super Moderator

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    Welcome back!

    Are you planning on gaming, and what resolution is your monitor? Intel are generally still favoured, not much has changed there since your last CPU purchase :hehe:

    If I gather correctly, you will need:

    Operating System
    CPU/Mobo/RAM/GPU

    Possibly a PSU depending on how much you spent last time. You can recycle the X-Fi, case and DVD drive for now (and XP if you're happy to, but at least 7 is highly recommended).

    You won't get a vast amount for £400, but it'll be a big step up anyway.
     
  3. jrs77

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    intel is still the way to go for 3d, allthough rendering could actually be a little bit faster on AMD-CPUs due to them having more physical cores (benchmarks like POVRAY and Cinebench show this trend atleast), but not in your budget-range.
    Ontop of this you need as much DDR3 as possible, whereas the GPU is totally not as interesting. A HD7750 will be enough here.

    I'm doing lots of photoediting, SketchUp and 3dmax on my rig aswell (see signature) and I can't complain, but more RAM is recommended, if the rig is specificall ment for this task.

    £400 is really not that much to play with however, but it'll do.

    intel Core i5-3470 @ £150.18 incl VAT

    MSI B75MA-P45 @ £46.50 incl VAT

    Corsair XMS3 16GB DDR3 1600 MHz @ £93.79 incl VAT

    Gigabyte HD7750 OC 2GB @ £71.72 incl VAT

    = £362,19
     
  4. mm vr

    mm vr The cheesecake is a lie

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    You could even recycle your X1900XTX if your applications aren't GPU accelerated and you won't be playing games.

    Which power supply do you have specifically?
     
  5. Shirty

    Shirty W*nker! Super Moderator

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    The 7750 is much, much faster than the x1900xtx. It is roughly equivalent to a top end card from about four years ago, whereas the old xtx is at the ripe old age of seven now.

    Windows 8 is already out, so it's probably the de facto choice now.

    16GB is so cheap compared to last time you looked, under £100 :jawdrop:
     
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    Remember you have access to the marketplace so see what deals are available on there :)
     
  7. Shirty

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    ITX kicks ass but the motherboards ain't cheap.
     
  8. Shirty

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    Depends on your definition of cheap I suppose :hehe:

    High end boards are around the £130-£150 mark, whereas a decent ATX board can be found for a little less with more features.

    That said, you could get a nice Bitfenix Prodigy and put a potent little CAD box together for your budget, as GPU horsepower isn't a major requirement.
     

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