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<blockquote data-quote="badboy6301" data-source="post: 1625163" data-attributes="member: 41269"><p>Thanks comp@ddict, Jakob, Sudhanshu123 and ALPHA17,</p><p></p><p><img src="http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/poker-face-meme.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>confusion confusion confusion..</p><p></p><p>i3 has good performance but 2 cores..</p><p></p><p>amd has 4 cores but power consumption is high..</p><p></p><p>with lga 1155, H67, I can upgrade to ivy Bridge.</p><p></p><p>Also, I do want sata 3 and usb 3.0.</p><p></p><p>Somehow Intel does seem to be the way forward.</p><p></p><p>Regarding,</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: #282828">[font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 12px">I've tried explaining plenty of people that buying 1333MHz RAM is seriously not worth it, especially for Intel processors and AMD Llano APU's in the face of these articles / arguments --></span>[/font]</span><a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/4503/sandy-bridge-memory-scaling-choosing-the-best-ddr3" target="_blank">http://www.anandtech...g-the-best-ddr3</a><a href="http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/memory/display/lga2011-ddr3.html" target="_blank">http://www.xbitlabs....a2011-ddr3.html</a></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #444444">[font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 12px">[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Sandy Bridge's improved memory controller has all but eliminated the need for extreme memory bandwidth, at least for this architecture. It's only when you get down to DDR3-1333 that you see a minor performance penalty. The sweet spot appears to be at DDR3-1600, where you will see a minor performance increase over DDR3-1333 with only a slight increase in cost. The performance increase gained by going up to DDR3-1866 or DDR3-2133 isn't nearly as pronounced.[/font]</span>[/font]</span>"</p><p></p><p><a href="http://ark.intel.com/products/53422/Intel-Core-i3-2100-Processor-(3M-Cache-3_10-GHz)" target="_blank">I</a> wonder if the motherboard is gonna support the 1600 MHz RAM.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/desktop-board-dh67bl.html" target="_blank">http://www.intel.com...ard-dh67bl.html</a></p><p></p><p>It states: Memory support for 1333/1066 MHz DIMMs</p><p></p><p>I think that should mean that even if I use a 1600 MHz RAM, it would work at a frequency of 1333MHz since that is the max. supported.</p><p></p><p>I may be wrong ofcourse..</p><p></p><p>The other worry I have is .. If I think of extending the budget and going for HD6850, will the <span style="color: #282828">[font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] CX430[/font]</span><strong>v2</strong><span style="color: #282828">[font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] be able to handle it? or will I have to buy the [/font]</span><span style="color: #282828">[font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Seasonic SII 520w in that case.. [/font]</span><span style="color: #282828">[font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] [/font]</span><span style="color: #282828">[font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]<img src="http://static1.techenclave.com//public/style_emoticons/default/1ign13.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />[/font]</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #282828">[font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]About Biostar mobos...[/font]</span><span style="color: #282828">[font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Are they reliable enough?? [/font]</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #282828">[font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Thanks. [/font]</span><span style="color: #282828">[font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]<img src="http://static1.techenclave.com//public/style_emoticons/default/cool43.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />[/font]</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="badboy6301, post: 1625163, member: 41269"] Thanks comp@ddict, Jakob, Sudhanshu123 and ALPHA17, [img]http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/poker-face-meme.jpg[/img] confusion confusion confusion.. i3 has good performance but 2 cores.. amd has 4 cores but power consumption is high.. with lga 1155, H67, I can upgrade to ivy Bridge. Also, I do want sata 3 and usb 3.0. Somehow Intel does seem to be the way forward. Regarding, "[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=3]I've tried explaining plenty of people that buying 1333MHz RAM is seriously not worth it, especially for Intel processors and AMD Llano APU's in the face of these articles / arguments -->[/size][/font][/color][url="http://www.anandtech.com/show/4503/sandy-bridge-memory-scaling-choosing-the-best-ddr3"]http://www.anandtech...g-the-best-ddr3[/url][url="http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/memory/display/lga2011-ddr3.html"]http://www.xbitlabs....a2011-ddr3.html[/url] [color=#444444][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=3][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Sandy Bridge's improved memory controller has all but eliminated the need for extreme memory bandwidth, at least for this architecture. It's only when you get down to DDR3-1333 that you see a minor performance penalty. The sweet spot appears to be at DDR3-1600, where you will see a minor performance increase over DDR3-1333 with only a slight increase in cost. The performance increase gained by going up to DDR3-1866 or DDR3-2133 isn't nearly as pronounced.[/font][/size][/font][/color]" [url="http://ark.intel.com/products/53422/Intel-Core-i3-2100-Processor-(3M-Cache-3_10-GHz)"]I[/url] wonder if the motherboard is gonna support the 1600 MHz RAM. [url="http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/desktop-board-dh67bl.html"]http://www.intel.com...ard-dh67bl.html[/url] It states: Memory support for 1333/1066 MHz DIMMs I think that should mean that even if I use a 1600 MHz RAM, it would work at a frequency of 1333MHz since that is the max. supported. I may be wrong ofcourse.. The other worry I have is .. If I think of extending the budget and going for HD6850, will the [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] CX430[/font][/color][b]v2[/b][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] be able to handle it? or will I have to buy the [/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Seasonic SII 520w in that case.. [/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] [/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][img]http://static1.techenclave.com//public/style_emoticons/default/1ign13.gif[/img][/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]About Biostar mobos...[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Are they reliable enough?? [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Thanks. [/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][img]http://static1.techenclave.com//public/style_emoticons/default/cool43.gif[/img][/font][/color] [/QUOTE]
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