Budget PC!

[Cole]

That's why I said FX is cheaper by a bit...

i get what hes saying hes simply describing the tiers of the amd series
phenom>fx>athlon
fairy obvious but with that same linear description theres also a price flux
idk im starting out with a 4100 which should be considered as like the perfect basic processor nothing completely advanced or ranking (besides OC but core usage>overlocking ability) but its also only around 100$ while the phenom is like...140-160$ range? so
but we need a budget to decide...

[aeronyx]

Pitch a bit more for the processor and get this.

Newegg.com - AMD FX-4100 Zambezi 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor FD4100WMGUSBX

/me will unlock X3's hidden core and turn it into quad core, overclocking it to 4 GHz as well.

Budget is 350$



@Stevenom
@Alen

[Chester Bennington]

/me will unlock X3's hidden core and turn it into quad core, overclocking it to 4 GHz as well.

Budget is 350$



@Stevenom
@Alen

$350? That's going to be hard.

[aeronyx]

$350? That's going to be hard.

I can probably go over a teeny bit, but all I really need to play on this computer is at most, Borderlands 2 when it comes out.

Not even on highest settings.

No gfx card b/c the onboard gfx can handle Crysis 1 on Ultra at decent FPS.

[P4N1K]

/me will unlock X3's hidden core and turn it into quad core, overclocking it to 4 GHz as well.

Budget is 350$



@Stevenom
@Alen

Unfortunately AMD got wise to that hack and ended up completely removing that core instead of "locking" it in their new revisions.

[Alen]

I can probably go over a teeny bit, but all I really need to play on this computer is at most, Borderlands 2 when it comes out.

Not even on highest settings.

No gfx card b/c the onboard gfx can handle Crysis 1 on Ultra at decent FPS.

I sincerely doubt you can get a BL2-ready PC for 350. I really do. I'll take a look when I have the time, but I cannot really see something like this happening, as the cheapest card I would get would be a 5770 or something along those lines, leaving only 250 for the mobo/cpu/ram and everything else. If you really grab a budget AMD base and get some cheapo psu and case it might be possible, but I really doubt it's worth it. I would rather save up a bit more and buy something when you have 500-600 bucks.

[GRgaergaergaergerag]

get a 64GB SSD and a 500GB HDD
SSD for the OPsystem: even though its the low end for ssd's its still worth it...check out my boot vid if you don't believe...whatever
spend a bit more on a processor, AMD: worse technology whatsoever: cheaper

[Stevenom]

I sincerely doubt you can get a BL2-ready PC for 350. I really do. I'll take a look when I have the time, but I cannot really see something like this happening, as the cheapest card I would get would be a 5770 or something along those lines, leaving only 250 for the mobo/cpu/ram and everything else. If you really grab a budget AMD base and get some cheapo psu and case it might be possible, but I really doubt it's worth it. I would rather save up a bit more and buy something when you have 500-600 bucks.

He said he had 4 GTX 580's but he blew up 'em or something.

[FileCorrupt]

Don't go for AMD processors... They have remarkably low benchmarks compared to Intel. Get an i5 Sandy Bridge and you're set.

[Alen]

He said he had 4 GTX 580's but he blew up 'em or something.

I thought that was bullpop, though I've yet to see someone else get a four-way sli board on MPGH

Don't go for AMD processors... They have remarkably low benchmarks compared to Intel. Get an i5 Sandy Bridge and you're set.

On a $350 budget? It would never work out.

[Rigby]

Instead of using the Athlon II CPU's, get AMD's new APU's, it may not do as well, but you get the processing cores which work much better Intel's graphics game-wise but not overall performance-wise. Plus they are cheap

EDIT:
Quad-core has room for a GPU when you want to add it, powerful enough psu and 2 gb of memory

[FileCorrupt]

I thought that was bullpop, though I've yet to see someone else get a four-way sli board on MPGH



On a $350 budget? It would never work out.

Didn't see a budget anywhere. :l

[Donnuh]

Didn't see a budget anywhere. :l

/fp page 2..

[FileCorrupt]

/fp page 2..

I saw it then...

[aeronyx]

Unfortunately AMD got wise to that hack and ended up completely removing that core instead of "locking" it in their new revisions.

This is an older AMD processor however, and I think you CAN still unlock an extra core with it.

;x