New Desktop (800€) Hi, I'm planning on upgrading my desktop, and I have a budget of about 800 euro (perhaps a little more). I've been looking around a little and I've found this: GPU: PIXMANIA Radeon HD 5830 - 1 GB GDDR5 CPU: Intel 1156 Quad Core I5 750 2.66GHz Motherboard: None yet HDD: Was thinking about an Solid State drive as boot drive, and then some other harddisc for data. Other: I already have a case, screen, mouse and keyboard. Though some money left for a nice new screen (with a higher resolution) would be nice but not really necessary (since I still have some money left and a new screen would be a good investment for that :P) Now my question to you is whether you have any better ideas or tips for me to get the best build for about 800€. Thanks ! -Pablo |
Hey there Pablo, welcome to the forums, where do you live? GPU HD5830: €170 http://www.pixmania.be/be/fr/5020944...-go-gddr5.html GTX460: €190 http://www.pixmania.be/be/fr/6166500...768-mo-gd.html either one is good , they are pretty evenly matched, http://techpowerup.com/reviews/Axle/...768_MB/31.html if you have a bit extra, spend €30 more for the GTX 460 with 1gb and you're set! memory wise go for at least 4gb DDR3, 8gb if you can afford it; the motherboard choice will only become important if you want a certain feature or looking for best OC |
@jmke Thanks, I live in Belgium ;) Thanks, I'll look into that ! I forgot about the memory xD Thanks ! |
might be cheaper to check out www.tones.be www.alternate.be www.forcom.be too :) although for VGA card pixmania price can't be beat |
I would recommend the i5 760 since the 750 will become shortly discontinued; regarding the SSD, I would recommend jumping later on it because the prices are still very high and I would invest these money into another hardware component, like a monitor, as you said. |
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80Gb~100Gb model, either Intel X25-M G2 or one of the newer sandforce drives; use it for OS/apps; and get two big HDDs for all your data. I'm pretty sure Stefan's PC doesn't have an SSD, otherwise he would not be discouraging the purchase;) |
@Stefan Mileschin & jmke Yea, I also heard an SSD makes your computer waaaay faster :D So I'm still going for one ^^ Though now I was looking for some ram, and normally I get kingston (since I used to have this, and I'm very happy with it). Though ram has gotting really expensive :o The cheapest I found was "OCZ Gold Low Voltage 2 x 2 Gb DDR3-1333 PC3-10666 PC geheugen (OCZ3G1333LV4GK)" or "OCZ Fatal1ty Dual Channel PC geheugen 2 x 2GB DDR2-800 PC2-6400 CL5" (both in Pixmania, but since I don't have 5 posts yet I can't post the link :/ :P ) So both 4GB. But I have no idea what the difference is :P Nor do I know whether the "OCZ" ram is any good :P Any of you have any experience with that ram ? Thanks ! |
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OCZ Fatal1ty Dual Channel PC geheugen 2 x 2GB DDR2-800 PC2-6400 CL5 -> don't get this because it is DDR2, not 3 Regarding the RAM , you can't go wrong with either A-DATA or Corsair. |
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what? boot times, app loading times, general alt-tabbing and every single action on your PC is made AT least 2x faster than with a normal HDD. That's worth the investment and tweaks for getting your OS/apps on a smaller SSD :D Quote:
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@Stefan Mileschin Haha, thanks for pointing that out, didn't see it was DDR2 xD @Stefan & jmke Yea, still going for a SSD, even though it costs a lot ^^ @jmke And what rate is needed for overclocking ? (never did it, neither am I planning on doing it, though just interested :P) Thanks a lot ! -Pablo |
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