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Help me buy a CPU and a Motherboard with 220$.Whats the best I can get. Stretch it for me pls.
Dekapitator
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Hello.
I'm missing a CPU and a Motherboard for my new Gaming rig.
Intel or AMD dosent mather. What would you buy for yourself with only 220$ ?
I'm only gonna use one good graphics card . So that extra PCI expresss slot isn't a priority but if it comes in the board. fine.
Whats the best I can get with 220$? CPU and Motherboard pls.
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if you go amd i would use these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103727
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131754&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&PageSize=10&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&IsFeedbackTab=true#scrollFullInfo
thats good kick for the $$$:)
Thanks for the reply. I would like to put more money in the CPU than in the motherboard honestly.I think I can get a better cpu than that.
Depends on what type of games you are aimig at.
AMD are at this point of time not playing in the same leauge as Intel. So I would recommend a intel i5 3rd generation cpu with this motherboard http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8Z77V_PRO/
Sorry, but there really are not many options at that price. You can pick up a low bin i5 for $160 on newegg, and look for the cheapest possible motherboard, but I still think it will fall over your $220 price limit.
This always depends on where you live...Microcenter has good cpu prices, but it is in store only.
They have the i5 3570k for $169.99, leaving roughly $50 for a cheap motherboard, and they have 3 motherboards (biostar, asrock and a gigabyte) that fit that processor for $49.99...With taxes you'd be a little over, but thats $220 before.
I would recommend Intel, but if your strapped for cash the new amds are plenty good for most games. You will have to accept there will be the occasional game that won't play ball with it though.
well he said 220$ and thats tough to do on intel/motherboard combo and i would never use a 50$ motherboard but to each his own:)
as far as amd not running some games that is bs i have both and my amd had no problem running any game i play lol. intel might be better benchmarks but both run games fine in my opinion.
http://www.microcenter.com/product/388577/Core_i5_3570K_34GHz_LGA_1155_Processor
I missed a $10 rebate on one of the $49.99 motherboards, that has a 5 star rating from people that bought it.
They also have AMD cpu/motherboard bundles that fall under or at $220....But I dont know a lot about AMD.
http://www.microcenter.com/product/377387/GA-H61M-DS2_LGA_1155_H61_mATX_Intel_Motherboard
http://www.microcenter.com/product/392704/H61MLV_LGA_1155_H61_MicroATX_Intel_Motherboard
http://www.microcenter.com/product/388089/H61M-HVS_H61_1155_mATX_Intel_Motherboard
there is the 3 motherboards, from 39.99 (after rebate) to 49.99.
For their AMD bundles.
FX 8320 processor, and a ASUS motherboard for $218
You just went over budget by about $200.
I typically don't link comparisons like that.
The problem is that if you want to base things on current benchmarks, you can only use games that are available today. At the moment, game designers are trying very hard to make sure their game runs well on a dual core processor, so two faster cores are likely to beat four slower cores in a lot of games. But the proper takeaway from those benchmarks is "all the processors we tested ran the game smoothly", not "this one got 80 frames per second and that one only got 70, so the former is better".
The real question of a processor is, for how long will it continue to give you good frame rates in games? What happens a few years from now when game designers are willing to assume that everyone with a decent video card also has a quad core processor, and some people have even more than that? Think two faster cores will still beat four slower cores, let alone six? I don't.
Now that the combo that I had been recommending for the last few days is out of stock, you get this instead:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1094287
Nope. I recently did build a pc to a friend. The motherboard and cpu did cost him around 220$. It all depends on how you do your purchases.
And how can you recommend that AMD system for 200$? My pc from 2009 are better than your suggestion from a gaming perspective.
Good luck buying a $220 processor and a $200 motherboard for $220 total with both parts new and from publicly available sources. The amount Intel and Asus get paid for those parts probably exceeds $220, even before everyone later in the distribution chain takes their markup.
Maybe your computer from 2009 is nice, but I'll bet it cost an awful lot more than $220. Besides, there weren't any processors available in 2009 that are better than an FX-6300. Competitive, yes; clearly better, no.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-pc-overclocking-pc-building,3273.html
Check out Tom's Hardware article on building gaming PC's based on your budget. Good luck!
Some sites are better at posting builds than others. Alas, Tom's Hardware is one of the "others".
Besides, even the best months-old builds can't compete with someone who can look up parts and see what prices they are right now.