Budget PC!

Originally Posted by Stevenom

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...

Originally Posted by Ethereal

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

Originally Posted by aeronyx

/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.

Originally Posted by Chester Bennington

$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.

Originally Posted by aeronyx

/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.

Originally Posted by aeronyx

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.

Originally Posted by Alen

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.

Originally Posted by P4N1K

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

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

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

Originally Posted by Stevenom

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

Originally Posted by FileCorrupt

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.

Originally Posted by Alen

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

Originally Posted by FileCorrupt

Didn't see a budget anywhere. :l

/fp page 2..

Originally Posted by Donnuh

/fp page 2..

I saw it then...

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

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