AM3 gaming rig...?

[yggdrasil]

I been thinking about this for some time now, I'm looking to build a second PC for use by my mother, brother and friends who visit.

It would be a good PC but also fairly cheap, Running a single video card, single hard drive, 4gb RAM and so on.. nothing to advanced but a good gaming machine not needed to run high details but probably be a 5770 or a 460 since the prices of them are said to drop and probably will be the same as a 5770 for a while.

Any way back to my real question/s

I've loved my Intel's the past few years but been thinking about building a AMD rig just because I haven't had one in a while and a AMD rig as a second PC doesn't need as much preformance that I looked for in my main PC

So whats AMD like in a basic gaming rig?

This Rig will probably be running F@H as well during its use.

Say some thing along the lines of

AMD PHENOM II X4 965 AM3 3.4 GHZ QUADCORE or

AMD PHENOM II X6 1055T AM3 2.8GHZ HEXACORE

vs

INTEL CORE i5 650 3.2GHz 4MB or

INTEL CORE i5 760 2.8GHz 8MB

And would like to know of a good ASUS AM3 Board to..

Thoughts...?

--Tnx--

[AMDFTW]

so your gna fold with the CPU and 1 card?

well a 460 is a deffo

[yggdrasil]

Yeah.

And I was pretty sold on the 460 and was never really impressed with the 5770 any ways, Was jus the Idea of a AMD build, but there is no point spending the same amount as a 460 on a card that preforms worse.

[Heebs]

I'd go for the Phenom x4 if this is a secondary rig. Cheapest option and will still give you plenty of power.

[AlienALX]

For gaming the I3 is a steal. You can overclock the nuts off of it and it's cheap. Will leave you more cash for a gpu.

Also consider the Phenom x2. Again a lot of games don't use four cores so it's a waste of cash (multi cores are good for media encoding and so on). Also if you get the right mobo theres a good chance you can unlock the other two cores.

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/amd-p...mhz-85w-retail

There's your 965 with two cores disabled. 50/50 chance they're working but that CPU is more than enough for gaming.

[tinytomlogan]

Originally Posted by AlienALX

For gaming the I3 is a steal. You can overclock the nuts off of it and it's cheap. Will leave you more cash for a gpu.

Also consider the Phenom x2. Again a lot of games don't use four cores so it's a waste of cash (multi cores are good for media encoding and so on). Also if you get the right mobo theres a good chance you can unlock the other two cores.

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/amd-p...mhz-85w-retail

There's your 965 with two cores disabled. 50/50 chance they're working but that CPU is more than enough for gaming.

HA wonder where you got that from eh?

Not sure if the main folders would agree but you are probably better off saving the money and getting a cheap low power CPU and getting a second GPU

(game on one fold on one, then when you are not gaming fold on both)

[AlienALX]

Yeah after doing some research on it the I3 is basically a E8400 sort of thing that overclocks easy due to 32nm. So a good choice for a budget gamer

[tinytomlogan]

Originally Posted by AlienALX

Yeah after doing some research on it the I3 is basically a E8400 sort of thing that overclocks easy due to 32nm. So a good choice for a budget gamer

Id says its faster than an e8400 due to completely different architecture and must not forget the hyperthreading.

[yggdrasil]

Ok I have decided to go the following and take AlienALX advice and go for the OC'd i3 option.

INTEL CORE i3 530 2.93GHz 4MB

GEIL 4GB KIT BLACK DRAGON C8 DDR3 1600MHZ

ASUS P7P55-LX DESKTOP MOTHERBOARD

THERMALTAKE 430W OEM POWER SUPPLY

WD CAVIAR GREEN 1.0TB 7200/64MB/SATA2

ANTEC THREE HUNDRED GAMING CASE

and I already have the following CPU cooler

Thermaltake Contac 29 CPU Cooler

[AlienALX]

Originally Posted by tinytomlogan

Id says its faster than an e8400 due to completely different architecture and must not forget the hyperthreading.

Ahhhh so *that's* what makes it different from the new budget Pentium chip. I see. For the life of me I could not spot a difference in the spec.