For £800

[Socks]

What rig could you build me for £800 ish dude?

Just want raw power...More benchmark points the better, you know me...

 

[mayhem]

well for bench marks i'd just get a chisel .. they dont half gouge out a good mark on a bench .....

Mind you if you after some real good hot bench marks just throw on some lighter fluid ..........

lol

 

[sammytomjohn]

i think the question u should be askin is what rig could you build yourself for £800!

 

[noobieocer]

 

[Ghosthud1]

on noobs list you could probs change the 1tb drive for a 500gb and then the change could be put towards a 4890

 

[Jeddy]

Or screw i7 and get an AM3 setup and save probably £100+ and put it towards a gtx285 or something like a basic water loop.

 

[Ghosthud1]

Or screw i7 and get an AM3 setup and save probably £100+ and put it towards a gtx285 or something like a basic water loop.

why do that when you could have a core i7 system, most people will drool over the system whats been specified

 

[Jeddy]

because i7 is overpriced, an AM3 system will match it CPU wise and then you can plough the money saved into a 4890 or a gtx285. That is a drool worthy system. Especially if he wants to benchmark.

 

[noobieocer]

correct me if im wrong as i only started building computers for like 4 years and never even seen a amd setup, but isnt am3 just dual/quad cores?

on one of the custom pc issues they tested graphics cards with intel dual, quad and i7 cpus. and it seems that the higher end gpus are bottle necked by intel c2d cpus and actually preform alot better in i7.

and again correct me if im wrong but intel c2d cpus run faster than amd cpus clock for clock. so therefore if he wants to upgrade to crossfire in the future (not sure is 4870 some where in that groupd of high end gpus tested.) then the cpu is a major bottleneck and in my opinion spending extra £100 for the full potential of a high end gpu is worth it.

 

[Mul.]

The i7 would win benchmarks, especially those that take advantage of it's hyperthreading. For standard game play at decent resolutions however, the difference will be next to nothing and you'd have saved a considerable amount of money. I'm not in favour of either in particular but contrary to popular belief, i7 isn't as far ahead as many think at this price point.

As games become more CPU intensive, the difference does become a little more apparent but the 533MHz clockspeed benefit of the Phenom II evens that out once more.

My next question is, will you be overclocking?

 

[noobieocer]

i just confirmed the issue is 71 which is august issue. i think i get them early as i subscribed to them.

test on grid 1920 x 1200 res with 4x aa, 16xaf

core i7 920 @ 3.7ghz

4870 min fps: 58

4870 avg fps: 75

4890 min fps: 66

4890 avg fps: 83

e5200 @ 2.5ghz

4870 min fps: 32

4870 avg fps: 38

4890 min fps: 39

4890 avg fps: 44

so frames almost doubled. comparing dual with oct core. but then again dual core wasnt oc, but i oced my e2180 from 1.8 to 3.2ghz and i only found a few extra frames. so in the edn its upto you but i think core i7 is worth extra hundred.