Best computer for your buck?

[PotshotPolka]

q9550 more or less is on par with the phenom IIs, with comparable pricing. The REAL differences really only begin to show when you start OCing imo.

 

 

You can fork out the extra dough for an i7, even if its only a 920, but you will only acquire noticeable differences in processing over the Q- class and AMD chips if you OC, otherwise you're pissing away money. The person in question has no understanding of these concepts though, and would not benefit from a rig with an i7 CPU anyways, better to spend that extra money on a high class GPU.

 

 

 

(Now waits for the fanfags to start foaming at the mouth as they spamlink benchmarks)

[McBride]

heres a prebuilt thats good...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227165

[ReGIONALS]

$300 =/= $30 wtf dude??

 

go with a dual core 8 series or a quad if you want to stay in your price range! get decent ram and one of the newer card and you'll have a blast (nvidia 275 or more) the only problem with that is you have no room for upgrading if you want that you should go with an i7

 

not his posted price the price thats on the public wishlist.

[Akaru]

ReGIONALS, sorry to say but you are wrong.

 

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=4485017&sku=S445-10025

 

i7 for only 750 dollars. Only reason your i7 rig cost so much is because you slap the most expensive parts you can find on your setup. More expensive does not = more reliable. Some stuff will cost less and still be just as reliable.

[PotshotPolka]

ReGIONALS, sorry to say but you are wrong.

 

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=4485017&sku=S445-10025

 

i7 for only 750 dollars. Only reason your i7 rig cost so much is because you slap the most expensive parts you can find on your setup. More expensive does not = more reliable. Some stuff will cost less and still be just as reliable.

 

Once again, I'm happy for you and your i7 fetish, but you ignore the fact that the GPU in that rig is underpowered. Why would you buy a PC with an i7 processor and get a Radeon Hd 4850?

[Akaru]

Once again, I'm happy for you and your i7 fetish, but you ignore the fact that the GPU in that rig is underpowered. Why would you buy a PC with an i7 processor and get a Radeon Hd 4850?

 

Are you serious? HD 4850 is the best bang for your buck. It has the highest price to performance ratio out of all high end AMD cards.

 

920 also has the highest price to performance ratio out of all Intel processors (at that price range).

 

It's not even a fetish. BTW, I just released it is refurb. I don't think you should get a refurb.

[tinkerbell]

an i7 rig for what his needs are is a waste of money and he will not have the budget for a good gaming rig that will last, buy a Q series processor and a good graphic+mobo, and it wil last you a good time

[PotshotPolka]

Are you serious? HD 4850 is the best bang for your buck. It has the highest price to performance ratio out of all high end AMD cards.

 

920 also has the highest price to performance ratio out of all Intel processors (at that price range).

 

It's not even a fetish. BTW, I just released it is refurb. I don't think you should get a refurb.

 

And 80 lb. girls are the best acrobats because of their build, but they can't carry a fifty pound pack.

 

This is to say the specs you suggest are bottlednecked in the GPU section dude. That build would be spiffy if it substituted the 4850 for one of its betters, like the 4870/90.

 

 

an i7 rig for what his needs are is a waste of money and he will not have the budget for a good gaming rig that will last, buy a Q series processor and a good graphic+mobo, and it wil last you a good time

 

Also this.

[Shadowex3]

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3492&p=12

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2009-desktop-cpu-charts/3DMark-Vantage-1.0.2-CPU,1398.html

 

I've said it before, i'll say it again. Phenoms are underpowered. If you want a gaming computer for $800 or less you go with AMD, if you can afford $800 or MORE you go with core i7.

 

This is not complicated, there's not much to debate. The numbers are RIGHT THERE, it's not a matter of opinion, it's an easily and objectively measured fact. AMD for a cheap gaming computer, Core i7 for larger budgets.

 

Honestly I don't get how you people can argue so much about this when the benchmarks and newegg's price listings will decisively prove what's true and not. If the guy wants a sub $900 gaming computer build it with a Phenom2.

[Akaru]

And 80 lb. girls are the best acrobats because of their build, but they can't carry a fifty pound pack.

 

This is to say the specs you suggest are bottlednecked in the GPU section dude. That build would be spiffy if it substituted the 4850 for one of its betters, like the 4870/90.

 

 

 

 

Also this.

 

Well what do you expect from a 800 dollar budget? Are you expecting i7 965 with GTX 295s in QuadSLI? Come on now, I know you are good at computers, probably better than me, but it's a 800 dollar budget.

 

And regardless, something is going to be bottleneck the system, whether it be GPU, CPU, RAM, hard drive, motherboard, PSU. Whatever it is, something is going to bottleneck the computer. There is no computer in existence without a bottleneck. Even a million dollar computer will be bottleneck.