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Evening all. OK. Now as of tomorrow I could well have £450 to spend. I am looking for a new CPU, board and ram.

However I am pretty torn.

My budget does not allow (it seems) for any kind of I7 with triple channel ram. I looked at the 930 but IIRC it's poo. Then I looked at the 950 with a sabertooth but TBH I don't think I can afford it with a decent ram setup. Triple channel Mushkin kicks in around £140. The CPU brings that to £400.

I have looked at I5 but to be honest I don't think an I5 setup is going to show me a massive improvement. Infact TBH in gaming I don't think I'm even going to see a massive improvement using an I5 over what I have now, so I need top end.

This has (hilariously) led me to the 1090T with the CHIV. I am also considering the MSI Fuzion thing but tbh I like Asus for their bios updates and support. MSI does frighten me somewhat on that because I looked for bios updates for other boards recently and they don't seem as, how do you put it? on the ball as Asus.

So. Cooler is not an issue.. Do you guys reakon the 1090T with a 4ghz overclock and 4gb of Mushkin redline would allow me to get the potential out of my 470?

Price all in on Aria is £430. A lot, basically. I would love to go I7 950 but yeah, way too much money for me.

This also means that a sandy beach or whatever they're called (yes I am being humourous !) is also going to be out of my league as I am after high end.

Edit. OK lads it seems I could well be wrong... I have found the following.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-024-FC

I will of course rat it for updates ETC and cpu support first. Then.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-344-IN

Bear in mind I am not that fussed about overclocking it ! Honestly I mean that.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-205-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1389

Total £454. That's do able.. Thoughts?
 
Honestly, I'd keep saving until you can afford exactly what you want. You won't be happy if you don't. I'd at least go for the sabertooth if not the mushkins. The better board is more important IMO and you won't be overclocking the ram at all if you run 200 bclk. That's the usual spot for 4.0-4.2GHz.
 
AMDFTW said:
i would go with the hexcore but thats just me
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Well I was thinking that but then I found that I can easily afford what I want.

Please, before any one gets angry bear in mind I DO NOT want to overclock this. There's utterly utterly no point for me as it will crap on what I have. Even if I get it to 3.5 (which a 950 would laugh at) then I would be very happy.

Board. I've read a review and done my homework. It's perfect for my needs. Reason it is cheap is because it only has 3 ram banks.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/180012-Flam...TF8&coliid=I1WOVFD38F428P&colid=1GDMFRLXSU6WK

CPU

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intel-i7-95...TF8&coliid=I1S0CE8IU3VWPY&colid=1GDMFRLXSU6WK

Ram

http://www.amazon.co.uk/G-Skill-6GB...TF8&coliid=I3O0GQ64CB8GLE&colid=1GDMFRLXSU6WK

Now I know that Mushkin is the best but I'm not overclocking jack right now. Total price is - £412.88

Now even with this board it will easily go to 3.5ghz and I reakon that will stamp out a 1090T. I need to price up some 1090T setups but tbh they are pretty lame unless pushed really hard.

Edit. Or I can get a 3gb triple channel dominator set and a Sabertooth.
 
poor AMD

NAH jokes man

get the 950 and the sabertooth decent board and decent CPU u have the dh14 then jst save for 6gb of ram
 
Ill add it up with that in a sec. Honestly man that Foxconn is a good board. It's not a super duper fantastic board but Foxconn make pretty much every one else's boards.

I did just add up the following...

MSI 870A Fuzion AMD 770G (Socket AM3) DDR3 PCI-Express ATX Motherboard

AMD Phenom 2 X6 1090T

Mushkin 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 8-8-8-24 Blackline x 2 (8gb total)

£412.57

The thing is I *know* the 950 will take an absolute flying dump on the AMD. However, 8gb ram is kinda dreamy tbh. Right let me work out a saber, 950 and 3gb.

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Or.. God this has now blown things wide open lmao.

Asus 1156 Sabertooth 55i S/L

Intel i7-860 Quad Core Processor - 2.80 GHz, 8MB Cache, 2.5 GT/sec, Socket 1156, 45 nm, 3 Year Warranty, Retail Boxed

Corsair CMX8GX3M4A1600C​9 8GB (4 x 2GB) DDR3 Memory

Total - £423.22
 
Although Foxconn might not be the best mobo you could get, the 950 is clearly a winner compared to the 1090T and should make up for it somewhat.

Sure you could get some sick Mushkin ram as well, but the 1600MHz g-skill will be more than adequate for day-to-day tasks, in gaming you might gain literally a few fps using faster ram.

If treated kindly, the 950 will out live the 1090T as well, meaning that in a couple of years time, you can just get a better mobo cheaper and overclock it, making it still a viable CPU even if tech moves on a bit.

Obviously, if you could save a bit extra for the Sabertooth it would be awesome, but if you're desperate to upgrade, it's not a bad set of kit you've chosen considering the budget.
 
I like that post. haha.

You're right of course. The 950 even in its stock guise will absolutely tear this Phenom 2 apart. The board is actually very pretty tbh and, the specs seem good too.

#Supports the newest Intel® Core ™ i7 and Core™ i7 Extreme (Bloomfield) processors, Socket T (LGA1366)

# Supports QPI 6.4GT/S

# Triple DDR3 2000/(**oc)/1800(**oc)/1600(**oc)/1333/1066 x 3 DIMMs, Max. 12GB

# 2* PCIe2.0 x16, 1* PCIe2.0 x1,1* PCIe2.0 x4, 2* PCI

# 1* ATA133, 6* SATA II ,2*eSATA

# 7.1 channel HDA, Realtek® ALC888

# Gigabit LAN, Realtek® RTL8111C

# 12 USB 2.0 ports

I don't want USB and HOLYYYY 12 usb ports lol. Can some one explain how good that QPI may or may not be please?

Yeah Gskill ram is good tbh. Very under rated but only because not many people use it. I also have the option of Kingston HyperX but tbh the Gskill actually sounds a little better on the spec. I would rather have a more basic mobo and 6gb ram as stupid as that may sound. And, looking on Foxconn the board has all solid caps and ferrite power stages. It is literally cheap because you only get 3 ram slots but I don't need 6 tbh. 6gb usable is twice what I have now. For £20 more I can get the GTI edition with better NB/SB cooling too.

Edit. Easy 4.2ghz using cheap Corsair DDR3...

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum...core-review-part-foxconn-flaming-blade-review
 
£467. Over budget sadly. I literally don't have a penny to spend over £450. And I would rather have some change.

The Foxconn can do the 4.2ghz with cheap ram in. That's enough. I don't want or need either USB 3 or SATA 3 as it's a bit pointless.

Still, loads of options to consider though
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Why are the majority of people saying the AMD Phenom 2 X6 1090T is not really a great CPU? For the price its seems great.
 
On the amd side of things there is possably this set up.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-267-AM 1090T

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-004-BS Biostar TA890FXE (oc3d got the 1090t to 3.9xghz on it)

and either

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-291-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517 x2 4gb xms3 1600mhz if you realy want 8gb

OR http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-048-GS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517 Gskill Ripjaw 2x2gb if you would be good with 4gb

with the 2x4gb its £450 inc postage with the G.skill its £386 inc postage.
 
Most of the deed is done. And, I could well have had a frightfully good piece of fortune.

I got an I7 950 and 3gb of Gskill 1600mhz ram for now. I ordered a board with a slightly different name for £100 delivered. It looked nicer and comes with a 9.1 Sonar XFI card. However, when I downloaded the manual after ordering? it all got a bit bonkers.

Firstly I didnt realise it had 4 PCIE. Two are black and hard to make out on Foxconn's site. So I did a bit more reading. It has 8 SATA 2 (2 ESATA bank of 6) 2 SATA SAS, LED segs for diagnostics, force reset power on and power down buttons, 12 USB. Which I was well chuffed about, then I read page 2.

First thought was "Oh wow ! it comes with a water block for the north bridge !"

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Then - "holy f**k it also comes with a DICE block"

dice.jpg


And then I saw the price. £220 min, £300 max. I highly doubt I shall be revieving this board
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Well I did some poking. They have a corporate website with products on but you can't buy anything. I have a feeling they are a disto and they're clearing leftover stock. Well, I can but hope
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Yeah, on paper it looks good. Hope it turns out to be an excellent performer for you.
 
Yeah it was cheap man. £100 delivered. As I say, I highly doubt it will arrive
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The bios options are mental. Dual bios for a start, then all kinds of weird named things that you can store overclocking settings in. It also has a rear cmos reset too.

I got red Gskills too so itll look mental
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hmmblah said:
Yeah, on paper it looks good. Hope it turns out to be an excellent performer for you.
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I think I've sussed it now. It was a very early board, P6T time. So, it cost basically bang on what the P6T cost and the P6T was better. Not for functions but a better overclocker. I've been looking around and on the rev1 bios it had trouble taking the 920 past 3.9ghz. However, that could possibly be down to the original 920 being a bit of a stinker. Asus? it ain't. But, if it actually arrives for the price I paid I'll be dancing. I didn't want an overclocker in honesty I just wanted a nice looking board that works that I can drop the 950 into.

Also, due to backward naming.. The GTI version does not come with the DICE or water block (waste on me any way) and does not carry the SAS ports. But again those three things would highly likely never been used any way. Was one of the things Asus added to the P6T deluxe and they sit empty on every one's PC who I know that has that board
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