Which H81 chip motherboard would you suggest? Asus H81M-CS or Gigabyte GA-H81M-S1?
From above listed two, I will choose Asus make.
Also why not buy stuff online if available cheaper ?
Which H81 chip motherboard would you suggest? Asus H81M-CS or Gigabyte GA-H81M-S1?
Sadly, not a single component is available for cheaper online. Local shops are giving it for lesser...From above listed two, I will choose Asus make.
Also why not buy stuff online if available cheaper ?
From above listed two, I will choose Asus make.
Also why not buy stuff online if available cheaper ?
I think an h81 or b85 (whichever is cheaper) will be better. the h97 is needed only if you plan to upgrade to a broadwell cpu in the next 6 months.
main difference between them is the number of usb 3 ports. either way, they all have a sufficient number as well as room to add more.
the reason why the computer dealer is pushing the crap psu is because it's so rubbish, he would not be able to sell it separately.
do not be suckered into it. he's not the only shop out there and remember, it's your money, not his.
plus, if you search around there are some great online deals. for e.g. okay enterprises was having 20% off on amazon and a TE member got a gtx 970 for under 23k which is the lowest price i've ever seen for that.
go with asus as gigabyte does a lot of corner cutting and other sneaky tricks to cut costs.
tip: since your considering the core i3 41xx i would also suggest you to keep an eye out for the core i3 4330 (or similar 43xx) because it's significantly faster that the 41xx (it comes very close to the i5 in gaming benchmarks) and is ~8-9k.
here's a table of features of the various lga1150 chispets. hope it helps clear things up a bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1150
here's the psu hierarchy list as well - go with at least a tier 3 or above psu: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html
feel free to post any questions you have about these (even if you think it's silly).
the h81 and b85 won't support broadwell cpus (the core 5xxx series)why do you think the H97 or Z97 is worth buying only if I plan to upgrade to a broadwell cpu in the next 6 months?
the h81 and b85 won't support broadwell cpus (the core 5xxx series)
however, they will both support haswell i5's and i7's (the core 4xxx series).
the h97 is newer and the z97 is for overclocking k series cpus.
Go with the following Config:I was thinking if an AMD rig would be better:
FX-6300 (will upgrade to FX-8350 later)
MSI-970A-G46 Motherboard
GTX 960 2GB
8GB RAM
WD Caviar Blue 1TB HDD
Antec VP500PC PSU
Zebronics Case
Please advice !
Go with the following Config:
Intel Core i5 4440
MSI H97 PC Mate Motherboard
Asus Strix GTX 960 2GB
Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB RAM 1866Mhz
WD Caviar Blue 1TB HDD
Antec VP500PC PSU
Cooler Master Elite 311 Case
buyhatke.com helps scour the big 4 online stores (i.e. fk, ebay, amazon and snapd)
the other sites i check out are primeabg and it's sister site onlyssds.com.
Also, Bangalore will be cheaper than Hyderabad (if you're buying locally).
for gaming, right now intel provides better performance than an equivalent costing amd chip. main reason for this is intel's better single threaded performance.Btw is there any particular reason I should go for Intel build instead of AMD?