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Armybuilder:
FFs dont know where you sdid maths but your basic addition is poor JC +p
£600+ Is not fun...
In addition damn graphics cards are no longer on the site
JC:
--- Quote from: Armybuilder on November 22, 2011, 08:07:19 am ---FFs dont know where you sdid maths but your basic addition is poor JC +p
£600+ Is not fun...
In addition damn graphics cards are no longer on the site
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I can see where I went wrong, I forgot to include the case in the totals :3
Graphics cards, rough equivalents:
GTX 560 Ti - £160
HD 6870 - £150
If you want to save a bit more you could go for this card, not as much performance as a 6870 but they're still fine (considering the prices, I'd take the 560Ti myself, but I think if it was down to the 6850 or 6870 I'd keep the £30 and go for the 6850):
HD 6850 - £120
Other changes you could make now, since the Bulldozer has turned out to be an almighty 'meh' (This is the current 'best bulldozer' vs. the chip below, the bulldozer chip is a little over twice the price) I wouldn't even bother planning to upgrade to one in the future, you could change to this for AMD:
AMD 880 Motherboard - £65
AMD 955BE CPU - Quad Core 3.20Ghz - £100
Saving another £20 over the original price, the CPU costs have gone up.
I'd need to double check everything again really, because looking at it a lot of prices have changed (Price of the original CPU has gone up etc). To be fair there is a point where it's worth just waiting a bit longer and saving up more, I think £550 is about that 'sweet point' at the moment.
Decreasing the CPU/Graphics/Hard Drive any further are likely to see significant performance decreases (you'd have to go to a tri-core/Athlon to save any significant amount on the CPU, halving your HDD space saves you £20 lol) and really anything under the 6850/6870 is going to struggle with newer games.
Oh and lol, only just noticed I didn't include ram in the list above ##
2 x 2Gb Corsair XMS 3 - £23
Same RAM I have, it's not fancy but it is cheap and it's fine. Corsair also have a lifetime warranty which I've used repeatedly and they're really good to deal with.
Armybuilder:
Basically its gonna be a slow process. Start at christmas, save, feburary = birthday = more cash
So ye ive got time +)
Thanks man.
Im literally clueless rofl. Was looking at some of the scan ones. I know not to buy a prebuilt one but its still nice to look +P
Ill always go for the high graphics card. Its always gonne be better in the long run lol.
Jammie415:
You can get a ati readon hd 6770 for I think 80 pounds off ebuyer.com, I think thats a better deal then the gpus you have in the op.