Soleron said:
thranx said: ok so i came up with this on newegg.com Any suggestions you guys would change? i am going to try and buy it sometime in the next few weeks. G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL $44.99 GIGABYTE GA-B75M-D3H LGA 1155 Intel B75 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard $74.99 Intel Core i5-2310 Sandy Bridge 2.9GHz (3.2GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor $164.99 Total after tax is 305.63
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You don't need the RAM.
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Why not? Windows 7 will use as much as it can for Superfetch.
And some games can push you over the 4gb barrier easily enough, especially if he runs a "Dirty" System where he has hundreds of items in the taskbar loaded with Windows.
Besides, it's cheap and he won't have to worry about it again in the future, but don't assume someone doesn't need more than 4gb of ram, I have 32gb and use it all and will probably move to 64gb with Ivy Bridge-E.
So perhaps a better idea would be to ask him if he needs it?
Alternatively he can ditch the 8gb of ram, channel that into a faster processor and end up with a Core i5 3470 instead. (3.2ghz, 3.6ghz turbo). - And it will be Ivy Bridge and not Sandy Bridge too.
Mazty said:
I'm not 100% with the older architecture but I think the Athlon X4 II series is more likely to bottlekneck a modern GPU then a phenom II. I have a friend who was getting massively bottleknecked by his Phenom I series when using a HD5770 (talking 20+fps less then what he should be getting) and so because of that being an entry level gamer card I'd recommend rehauling the pc starting with the cpu *if* my idea that the athlon X4 II architecture is equal to the phenom I series. If it's equivalent to the phenom II series then yes, he will get benefits from a better gpu.
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An Athlon 2 for all intents and purposes -is- a Phenom 2. Just the L3 cache has been chopped/turned off. That's it.
Some Athlon 2's you can unlock into Phenom 2's if you enable "Advance Clock Calibration" in the BIOS, the difference in performance however is highly dependant on the game/benchmark you are using.
See here: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/81?vs=105&i=2.5.3.4.6.25.26.27.28.29.30.31.32.33.34.35.36.37.38.39.40.41.42.43.45.46.50.49.48.47.44
An Athlon 2 x4 though overclocked to 3.8ghz+ is still nothing to sneeze at as far as gaming is concerned.