CPU/Mobo Better than i3?

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Stick to the i3 mate. It's overclocking heaven

And as for the 2 cores, it's got 2 virtual cores so with Hyper Threading it's quite a good core. And it's considerably cheap, rather save your money for the GPU
 
wr8_utd said:
Stick to the i3 mate. It's overclocking heaven

And as for the 2 cores, it's got 2 virtual cores so with Hyper Threading it's quite a good core. And it's considerably cheap, rather save your money for the GPU
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i3 cheaper than 555be :huh: u wonna say that 15 days bak when i was deciding between the 2 they intentionally quoted me high price for i3
 
If your planning to run multicore optimized apps a lot and your on a budget and can only choose between the above then go for the 555BE.It would perform at least as good if not better than the i3 assuming you've managed to unlock the cores and managed a decent O.C. Even then you won't beat the i3 by a big margin because the i3 O.Cs like crazy and has HT.Your overall cost though will be less than the i3 setup because of cheaper proccy,cheaper motherboard and also cheaper RAM as DDR3 RAM is a requirement for i3.If you can increase your budget a bit then go for the X6 where you will see a real noticeable difference.

If you don't plan to run multicore intensive apps then without hesitation go for an i3 setup.
 
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And how much would the Athlon II X4 630 come for along with mobo?

Cause I am getting the i3 with mobo for 9.5k
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rather than spending 9.5k on i3 combo i wud suggest you to extend your budget by about 2k and buy a phenom x4 945 + biostar ta785hd :)
 
anikesh said:
rather than spending 9.5k on i3 combo i wud suggest you to extend your budget by about 2k and buy a phenom x4 945 + biostar ta785hd :)
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Your sure about that?

How good is the Phenom X4?
What's the GHz?

I was getting the Athlon 2 X4 very cheap but I rather take i3 than that.

How is the phenom x4 945 and how future proof is it

Ok I found this :

So there we have it – 10 CPU’s that cost almost the same. Is there a clear winner? I’d say it’s a toss-up between the Core i3 540/530 and Phenom II X4 925. If you do a lot of 3D rendering, go for the Phenom. If you care much about power consumption, get the Core i3.
The Core i3 540 and 530

They performed very well for the most part, helped greatly in some areas by HyperThreading. However they didn’t fare so well in 3D rendering tasks. They did very well in gaming, and would be my top recommendation for a budget gaming system. They also did well in video and audio encoding, and would also be my top recommendation for office applications.

So well since my top priority IS gaming so I guess I will stick to my Intel i3 :)
 
In that case i suggest PII X4 945: 7.3k

Biostar TA 785HD: 3.8k

Its lot lot better than i3 config. Its a true quad core, and has lot more cache than the i3.

AN i3 530 would come nowhere close to a PII X4 945, be it gaming, multi-threading, rendering, multimedia or VM works.

Also, evenif, i3 oc well, performance per clock is much less compared to PII. That is a PII X4 @ 3.8 Ghz will beat an i3 @ 4.4 Ghz in all criteria by big margin until its some heavily single threaded task :)
 
Are you sure about those prices? Because I'm not too sure I found those same prices today. i din't really inquire about it though.

And how's the BIOSTAR mobo? Is it reliable and good enough?
 
Biostar is reliable, and OC well and had good quality too. Only problem is it offer much less features. Onboard sound is AVG, no e-sata, hdmi is rare etc.

There are lots of people in TE using biostar 785/790 mobo and havnt heard anythin about dieing or having other problems.

And yes, some early released 790 mobos doesnt support 955BE and 965 BE. No problem with other proccys.

Its good enough for a 3.8~3.9Ghz oc with a CPU cooler.

also you can check prices here> http://www.deltapage.com/

locally, im getting most proccys here, for slightly lesser prices. for eg: X2 240 locally costs 2650/- here whereas its 2.8k in deltapage.

SO its 7.3k or lower for 945.

Also 7.8k is killer deal for 955BE too. OC much better and easily as its BE. Just make sure, the proccy is supported my the intended mobo.
 
Hmm I have a difficult decision to make now.

Cause the prices i was getting quoted were more expensive so I will really have to go and check again.

And I had a doubt. Can the integrated graphics using H55 boards AND the graphic card be used together?

I mean I have HD 5770 so do i NEED to go for a mobo which supports i3's intergrated graphics?

And also do the Biostar mobo's I could use with the X4 support DDR3?

EDIT: Here i3 is performing very well in comparison with the pII x4 955...

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The integrated graphics on the i3 will only be used if a compatible H55/H57 mobo is used. Its not necessary that you have to get a board SPECIFICALLY for i3. You could get a P55 board as well.

Anyhow, the x2 555BE, on account of being a C3 chip, and the Biostars clocking pretty well, you should be set. The onboard on the 790GX/785G is nothing to crow about, but since it seems you have a 5770 already, you needn't worry about that. i3 costs also go up because of DDR3, for which decent RAM is slightly more expensive than DDR2 now.

Ill be having the same dilemma soon, but I'm leaning toward AMD because Ill be on onboard for a while and the Intel HD5xxx won't cut it.
 
Well DDR3 is not all that expensive now. It's coming down a bit. Im getting it for 2.5k So it's ok I guess. And I rather buy the newer DDR3 now than the older DDR2...
 
Hmm but the problem is any of these boards in combo with the Proccy prices I am getting is rather out of budget for me :(

Hmm but the problem is any of these boards in combo with the Proccy prices I am getting is rather out of budget for me :(
 
Well, then just get DDR2. I've already had DDR3, but sold my rig for other reasons. Now that I'll be doing stuff which requires the horsepower that my laptop can't give, I'm getting a new rig, and it'll be DDR2 which I can get 2GB Kingstons for 2450 apparently. Its not necessary to always go to the latest and the greatest. With certain budgets, you have to stick with something thats slightly older.
 
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