Thread: Best Bang for the buck

Alright I am looking to advance my PC on x-mas occasion and so I have started the exploring procedure into innovative fractions. This is aimed towards a pleasant gaming PC but isn't totally high end. So I am marveling what everyone’s view is as far as what the best CPU per dollar you spend on it. I am open to both AMD and Intel proposals and by all means argue for and against different models.

Most excellent beat for the money? If you calculate in over clocking.... core i7 920 HANDS DOWN.

You can air over clock them on store fan to at slightest 3.6 plus it’s ideal.

Don't listen to the man on top of me he is an Intel fan boy who doesn't recognize a thing regarding processors.

Anyhow if you can grant it buy the 965 BE, highly developed for overclocking, but the 955 will offer you the identical results, it's presently the 955 is a bit less flexible in overclocking.

The 965 be is not sophisticated for overclocking. The 995 is further supple in overclocking. It starts at a lower clock as well as achieve the similar max overclock. (Limited of the c3 stepping 125w 965. The additional c3 stepping Phenoms have been dispatched at the moment.)

I would declare the most excellent microprocessor for each cash is the Athlon II 620. There is too the Athlon II x3s. The Phenom II x3's as well as x4s. Are all awfully fines for the dollar? Particularly in a gaming system.

I would wait further than an Intel system for your new-fangled system. Gaming system with a stretched budget=AMD.

For a firm cash gaming machine I would select moreover an X4 620 or else an X3 720 employing a cheaper AMD785 motherboard with DDR2 as well as place as much money as you can into a Radeon 5xxx gaming video card. It's the Radeon that will offer you gaming arrangement along with the AMD CPU’s will not turn into a blockage for most games.

If you wish an extra unbiased machine, afterward the i5 Intel with a slighter video card starts to make more common sense.

I found that the Phenom II 965 at first but after several studies I saw it is in fact awful suggestion plus in a nut case this is why:

"AMD Phenom II 965: poorly exclusive weigh up to the Core i5 750 as well as Phenom II 955. Equivalent silicon to the 955 does not move on extenuating the cost premium. That the 955 has an unlocked multiplier that can be upped each moment to generate presentation identical makes this up till now more shocking." - Taken from one more sensitive post on these forums.

I resolute that the Core i7's are ahead of my cost range. The core i5 is still likelihood but for the instant from my readings I am still leaning towards the phenom II 955. After searching at the Athlon II X4 620. I resolute it is perhaps the most excellent deal dollar for dollar but I am in search of somewhat a bit better plus it doesn't stack equal to the 955 in benchmarks.

If cash is taut whereas, you can everlastingly accomplish what I did. Agree to a Phenom II 550 (dual core edition of the 955) as well as mope the saved cash toward a superior video card.

As the GPU has more of a blow on gaming management, this is really excellent method of doing it. Most games only make use of 2 cores at present anyhow, so you don’t even variable that much performance.

If you sense fluky you can so far undertake unlocking a 550 to a quad (as I did) as well as basically acquire a 955 for the price of a 550.

If you include the cash for it though, if 750 is probably the finest microprocessor out there. Amazing presentation for its price.

But if you need somewhat cheaper, AMD is certainly the means to go.

Also yes I chosen the 955 in excess of the 965 as I read that they are the exact comparable microprocessor with the 955 can be overclocked capable to the same stage as the 965 creation it not worth the additional $30. Just as a note to someone posting in the prospect, let’s declare in theory that I by now have a good video card so I do not seem to save money for it. Thanks again everybody.

It in fact depends, if gaming is your most important obsession then a 720 be a highly developed 785g mobo with a 5850 or else 5870 would quite much grip all you wish for as well as offer you not only a huge advance path (the six core thuban arrive out on am3) but also overclocking headroom, you might also go for the Athlon II x4 620 for that additional core along with advanced multi tasking indeed the 720 be is easier to overclock other than the 620 has an additional core that helps it a bit as well as expenses a little less neither card will be block for your graphics card.

As the Athlon II X4 620 as well as the Phenom II X2 550BE are approximately equivalent prices on retail site, the AII X4 would be definite 4 cores along with no L3, whereas the PII X2 would be certain L3 as well as maybe 4 cores unlocked with the exact motherboard. I'm in exploration of a like super low-priced build and at present I'm leaning toward the PII X2 550BE plus expect to unlock every single 4 cores.

Alright so I am reasonably certain I have set my sights on the 955 as the CPU I will achieve. I was curious as to how much of an improvement I would make out from my current microprocessor to the latest one so I finished a general excel worksheet (after that uploaded to Google docs) viewing plentiful benchmarks and after that I extrapolated from the data I composed. Let me make out what you guys think. This is comparing my present microprocessor (AMD Athlon X2 6000+) to my imminent prospect one (AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE).

Hello friends

As embarrassingly anal retentive technology geeks, we keep our fingers on the pulse of the PC industry tight enough to choke it. And as consumers, just like our readers, we want the best damn systems we can get for our money.
That's why we keep this Bang for the Buck thing in the Build It section: so we can share our observations about which components we feel bring you the greatest amount of value for your dollar. Then we build a system out of them and let you know how it works out.
It's been a good, oh, 10 months since the last time we updated this thing, so let's see what's changed in the world of hardware pricing and performance. Ten months is like a gazillion years in computer time, so things have come quite a long way.
In this Bang for the Buck go-round, virtually every one of our recommendations had changed except for the mouse. You will not get us to part with our Logitech G5. We happily updated everything else, from the case and the card reader to the motherboard and the CPU, and right down to the monitor and speakers.


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