AvoK95
I just looked at a comparison between the two processors , it seems that the G850 is pretty good and very close to the 2100
yasamoka
That is the Core i3 2100T. The low power version of the Core i3 2100. Although it is pretty much the same architecture. What you want to check for in the comparison is clockspeeds, number of threads, and cache size (in decreasing order of importance). And no, I don't think either will bottleneck anything below a GTX 560 / 570.
Gamer
yasamoka
@Gamer: yes that's great. Just looking at the specs sheets, one could see there's not much difference. Even benchmarks should show proportional scaling with frequency at most. The Pentium is only 16.13% slower in frequency.
For me, this is the same as the rest of Intel's pricing. In November 2008, when the Core i7's were released, the 920 (2.66GHz) was priced at $300, and the 940 (2.93GHz) at $600! After the 920, 940, and 965 went EoL, they were replaced by the 930, 950, and 975. Recently, the 960's price was $300. So huge profit margins it seems.
Gamer
Actually me and my friend are planning on building a new computer rig with high end spec when we noticed an X79 motherboard with LGA 2011, and discovered the IVY Bridge chip set which began production and would be on available for purchase in April 2012, long story short we will be delaying building the rig Until April May.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Bridge_%28microarchitecture%29
yasamoka
What type of system are you planning to build? (Please don't tell me single card + X79)
Gamer
when you say single card, do you mean Graphics
and Im Not certain about the X79 cause till the Ivy Bridge Arrives I do not know what motherboard would be available,
I am looking into the cost/benefit of having an SLI to having a high end graphics.
AvoK95
Please don't go off-topic guys.
omar_killer
sorry guys for the VERY late reply,I was extremely sick
anyways, unfortunately my uncle couldn't raise the budget,I don't know how would they manage to do that,I was thinking of getting the middle pc in the economical section
http://www.pcandparts.com/basesys.htm
and adding a Gigabit 550Ti,and removing those keyboard,monitor etc. would that work?
Flakk
It works, I also recommend adding another 2GB RAM Kingston DDR3-1333 priced at 16$.
omar_killer
okay great,I'll discuss this with my uncle's son and will email pcandparts.
this VGA card will serve them for about 2 years,right?
AvoK95
Depends on the games.
The 550Ti is almost as good as a GTX 460 (Which still can run the latest games and has been running them for almost 3 years)
ali_m3
the vga should smoothly run most games @ medium settings, and yeah should serve for a couple of years
yasamoka
Avo? :P How did you get 3 years? :P The GTX 460 was released after April 2010. 550Ti is closer to GTS450 / GTX260 than to GTX 460.
yasamoka
ali_m3 wrotethe vga should smoothly run most games @ medium settings, and yeah should serve for a couple of years
Medium - High, closer to High at very good framerates, not that niche Ultra @1080p though (diminishing returns of details).
AvoK95
The year was given in approximation.
The 550Ti has been proven to be as good as a 460
If you look at the review you will find that most of them admit that if you overclock a 550Ti it will run almost exactly like a 460
You may also see that the fps in most games are very close to the 460 , there may be only 3 to 5fps difference maximum but its 100$ cheaper and runs more efficiently then a 460.It also uses Nvidia's latest GPU architecture making it the ultimate budget Nvidia card you can find.
I mean for 170$ you can play BF3 MW3 and also the latest NFS The Run at pretty decent fps.
omar_killer
So I'm back and I really need your help guys.
This time I will get the gaming rig and the budget is raised to $1000
about the VGA the best one I could find is the GTX 460Ti (Gigabyte variant) is that true?
and I need some other place than PCandParts since I can't find most of my stuff
here is what I thought would be right:
CPU:i5-2400 $195
MoBo:Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 $164
RAM:2x4Gb DDR3 kingston $50
Case:V4Black Edition $44
HDD:1TB WD10EALX $95
VGA:Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560Ti OC $279
PSU:XFX P1-650S-NLB9 $115
As you can see the price will be more than 1000$ (these are VAT excluded)
So any idea if I had it right?
shant
i don't know about the 550, but i have the 460, there wasn't a game i couldn't run at 1080p, only a few games needed some tweaks but thats about it, pair it with a used Q6600 and you have a gaming system, or an i3
omar_killer
shant wrotei don't know about the 550, but i have the 460, there wasn't a game i couldn't run at 1080p, only a few games needed some tweaks but thats about it, pair it with a used Q6600 and you have a gaming system, or an i3
it's the 560ti btw :P
I never thought about an i3,and as soon as I searched it on google I found this:"i3+560Ti=a great gaming combo"
http://www.overclock.net/t/1201336/gaming-rig-using-core-i3-good-bad/10
And in the future I might consider an upgrade to i5 or even i7
any motherboard to recommend? with a usb 3.0 support?
yasamoka
The 560Ti is going to be replaced in less than a month's time by the GTX660Ti, promised to be released in August.
On the other hand, AMD's midrange cards such as the 7850 and 7870 are faster than the 560Ti and draw less power (the 7870 competes with the GTX580).
The 7850 can often be overclocked from 860MHz core clock to 1200MHz, making it around as fast as a stock 7950, beating the GTX580.
