Check This Spec!*Seruise spec issue*

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iTzMEKKAOUI

Gold Level Poster
Hey, Please choose which spec you would go with and anything you would change thanks!:)..they are 3 specs btw...

1st.

Case
NZXT PHANTOM WHITE GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU)
AMD PHENOM II X4 980 (3.70GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3) - BLACK EDITION

Motherboard
ASUS® M5A99X EVO:USB 3.0, SATA 6.0Gb/s, Quad CrossFireX™/SLI™

Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 4GB KIT)

Graphics Card
1.25GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 570 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
750GB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD7502AAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£72)

Processor Cooling
COOLIT ECO II A.L.C (ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER) (£59)

Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs

USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)​

2nd.
Case
NZXT PHANTOM WHITE GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core (3.40GHz, 8MB Cache) + HD Graphics

Motherboard
ASUS® P8Z68-V PRO: USB 3.0, SATA 6GB/s, NVIDIA®SLI™, ATI®CrossFireX™

Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)

Graphics Card
1.25GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 570 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
750GB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD7502AAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Power Supply
CORSAIR 750W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX750 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£86)

Processor Cooling
COOLIT ECO II A.L.C (ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER) (£59)

Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Network Facilities
ONBOARD GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI-E CARD (£19)

USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)

& 3rd!..
Case
NZXT PHANTOM WHITE GAMING CASE

Overclocked CPU
Overclocked Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core (3.40GHz @ max 4.80GHz)

Motherboard
ASUS® P8Z68-V PRO: USB 3.0, SATA 6GB/s, NVIDIA®SLI™, ATI®CrossFireX™

Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)

Graphics Card
1.25GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 570 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
750GB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD7502AAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Power Supply
CORSAIR 750W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX750 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£86)

Processor Cooling
COOLIT ECO II A.L.C (ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER) (£59)

Thermal Paste
STANDARD OVERCLOCK THERMAL PASTE

Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Network Facilities
ONBOARD GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI-E CARD (£19)

USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)

There all around the price from £1,100-£1,220.
 
Frenchy

Frenchy

Prolific Poster
whats it going to be used for? and whats your reasoning behind the 3 specs u came up with?
 
UndeadJack

UndeadJack

Master Poster
Intel over clocks are . Sorry for the horrid grammar- I am using swype on my phone as quickly as possible
 
Frenchy

Frenchy

Prolific Poster
Wozza, you need to stop saying comments like Intel for everything. Intel are very good, however if he is looking for a general system not needed for the best possible performance then AMD is a lot better value for money and the average user will never notice a difference.

EDIT: even more experienced users would never notice a difference.
 
UndeadJack

UndeadJack

Master Poster
Frenchy said:
Wozza, you need to stop saying comments like Intel for everything. Intel are very good, however if he is looking for a general system not needed for the best possible performance then AMD is a lot better value for money and the average user will never notice a difference.

EDIT: even more experienced users would never notice a difference.
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I think the only time you can tell is when using rendering programs or photoshop as six choirs just win



Wozza is an intel Sheep
 
Teaz

Teaz

Godlike
the 2nd and 3rd spec are exactly the same. the 3rd spec is just overclocked by pcs where the first is left how it is.

if its for gaming the i5 would be just fine, i dont think and overclocked cpu just for gaming is really worth it. its pretty much there for bragging rights unless there is good use for it that is cpu intensive like hard photo and video editing etc etc

you can still overclock the non K varient but not to those crazy clocks as the K.

In my view, amd is the right choice for you if youre just gona game alone with other minor normal usage.

you cant go wrong with either amd or intel.

I think this would be very fine suited for you and under the budget:

Case
NZXT PHANTOM WHITE GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5-2500 Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics

Motherboard
ASUS® P8Z68-V PRO: USB 3.0, SATA 6GB/s, NVIDIA®SLI™, ATI®CrossFireX™

Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)

Graphics Card
1.25GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 570 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
750GB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD7502AAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

SSD CACHE DRIVE
20GB INTEL® SSD 311 SERIES - CACHE DRIVE FOR SYSTEM / 1st HDD

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£72)

Processor Cooling
TITAN FENRIR EVO EXTREME HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£39)

Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Network Facilities
ONBOARD GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)

USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)

Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)

Total: 1166
 
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Wozza63

Biblical Poster
Personally i believe that anything at top budget should be intel, but i agree with anyone who say AMDs are great for budget and often not looking for top gaming
 
Frenchy

Frenchy

Prolific Poster
Wozza365 said:
Personally i believe that anything at top budget should be intel, but i agree with anyone who say AMDs are great for budget and often not looking for top gaming
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Whats your reason apart from the fact other people say it is and your just following what they say? Im guessing you actually have some facts and reasoning?
 
Teaz

Teaz

Godlike
Lol, wozza, top gaming Can, be achieved in an AMD spec, so long they got a good gpu to boast with an amd 955+ cpu including 4gb ram then will get top lvl gaming already, its just a cheaper alternative :)
 
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Wozza63

Biblical Poster
@frenchy, ive looked at some CPU benchmarks and intel i5 outperforms all of AMD CPUs

Im not saying that AMD cant achieve max settings, it just wont perform quite as well as an i5 and they are also likely to die before an intel (although, like any processor it will most likely last you the lifetkme of the PC
 
Frenchy

Frenchy

Prolific Poster
Wozza365 said:
Im not saying that AMD cant achieve max settings, it just wont perform quite as well as an i5 and they are also likely to die before an intel (although, like any processor it will most likely last you the lifetkme of the PC
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Thats such rubbish, its less lifespan because intel say it is basically, and amd cant come back on it because its a fact all be it a completely blown out of proportion fact. No one, and honestly I mean not a single person, would notice the difference in lifetimes.
 
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Wozza63

Biblical Poster
And thats what i was saying, most people would have a new PC befpre either of them die unless it is a fault (which are about as likely as each other to occur)
 
Frenchy

Frenchy

Prolific Poster
Wozza365 said:
And thats what i was saying, most people would have a new PC befpre either of them die unless it is a fault (which are about as likely as each other to occur)
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I dont understand why people even mention the lifetime thing then if its not an issue, just makes amd sound rubbish when clearly they arent.
 
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Wozza63

Biblical Poster
Also i think a lot of people would be scared to make the move because they have always used intel and probably think, if dell, hp and whatever rarely use them, then they cant be great and like the mainstream buyers say, dell is the best value ever and wouldnt do anything dodgy like overcharge you
 
Fear

Fear

Prolific Poster
Wozza365 said:
Also i think a lot of people would be scared to make the move because they have always used intel and probably think, if dell, hp and whatever rarely use them, then they cant be great and like the mainstream buyers say, dell is the best value ever and wouldnt do anything dodgy like overcharge you
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Are you saying Dell and HP do not sell many specs with AMD systems if so you might need to have another look :p
 
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DandL

Member
My thought is this, the Amd rig is just fine for everyday and moderate usage the i7 is a much better performing setup for gaming especially and with the hyperthreading pretty good for video editing and stuff like multi tasking, would not bother with the overclocking as the particular motherboard you picked is incredibly simply to overclock at home, so why waste the extra money involved for that
 
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