Help with upgrade.

My rig is like 4 years old and now I want to upgrade it .

1. What is the purpose of the computer? What all applications and games are you going to run? (Stupid answers like 'gaming' or 'office work' will not work. Be exact. Which games? Which applications? Avoid the word 'et cetera.')
Ans: Firefox with 30 tabs open , photoshop , dreamweaver and games like Harry potter and deathly hallows and fifa .

2. What is your overall budget? If you can extend a bit for a more balanced configuration, then mention this too.
Ans: 12,000

3. Planning to overclock?
Ans: No

4. Which Operating System are you planning to use?
Ans: Windows 7

5. How much hard drive space is needed?
Ans: No drive is needed .

6. Do you want to buy a monitor? If yes, please mention which screen size and resolution do you want. If you already have a monitor and want to reuse it, again mention the size and resolution of monitor you have.
Ans: Already have a monitor . 17 inch and 1024 * 768 .

7. Which components you DON'T want to buy or which components you already have and plan on reusing?
Ans: Only want to buy Proccesor , motherboard and ram and psu .
Already have Monitor , case , ups , speaker , keyboard and mouse and HDD.

8. When are you planning to buy the system?
Ans: 1 month.

9. Have you ever built a desktop before or will this be done by an assembler?
Ans: Will be done by Assembler .

10. Where do you live? Are you buying locally? Are you open to buying stuff from online shops if you don't get locally?
Ans: Will buy online . Recommend some websites that have cash on delivery option.

11. Anything else which you would like to say?
Ans:

Thank you .
 
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MyGeekTips

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Component | Make | Price Processor |Intel Pentium G620|3550
Motherboard |GIGABYTE GA-H61M-D2-B3|3450
RAM |G-skill F3-10666CL9S-2GBNK|697
Graphic Card |Sapphire HD 5670 1GB GDDR5|4000
PSU |FSP Saga II 500W|2200
| Total |13,897

or

Component | Make | Price Processor |AMD A6-3500|4650
Motherboard |Gigabyte GA-A55M-S2H|4500
RAM |G-skill Ripjaws X F3-10666CL9S-2GBXL|836
PSU |FSP Saga II 500W|2200
| Total |12,186
 
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Component | Make | Price Processor |Intel Pentium G620|3550
Motherboard |GIGABYTE GA-H61M-D2-B3|3450
RAM |G-skill F3-10666CL9S-2GBNK|697
Graphic Card |Sapphire HD 5670 1GB GDDR5|4000
PSU |FSP Saga II 500W|2200
| Total |13,897

or

Component | Make | Price Processor |AMD A6-3500|4650
Motherboard |Gigabyte GA-A55M-S2H|4500
RAM |G-skill Ripjaws X F3-10666CL9S-2GBXL|836
PSU |FSP Saga II 500W|2200
| Total |12,186
Thank you for recommending me .
But can you tell which will give be faster performance in photoshop and multitasking and gaming?.
Also can I go for cheaper motherboard and higher processors? as i don't need to overclock and don't want features.

Also can you tell me a good shopping site for this?

Please help me guys.
 

MyGeekTips

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Component | Make | Price Processor |AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE|6400 (This will handle all your needs easily.)
Motherboard |Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P (rev. 3.1)|2600 (This mobo is AM3+ supported & can handle processor upto 125w TDP)
RAM |Corsair 1333mhz 2 x 4GB |2,400 (8GB Because of Multi-Tasking)
Graphic Card |GT 520 1GB DDR3 version|2,500 (Get of any brand)
PSU |Any Local Brand|500 (They will handle your config)
| Total |14,400

It overshoots your budget by 2.4K but get it you'll not regret later.

SMCInternational, PrimeABGB, Lynx, ITwares are good ones but tell me where are you located?
 

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@iamp4prathamesh, the Intel one as its being pared with a discrete GPU. A6 have HD6530 but HD5670 is better. but then again the former one cost ~1.5k more
 

Mr.V

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Component | Make | Price Processor |AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE|6400 (This will handle all your needs easily.)
Motherboard |Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P (rev. 3.1)|2600 (This mobo is AM3+ supported & can handle processor upto 125w TDP)
RAM |Corsair 1333mhz 2 x 4GB |2,400 (8GB Because of Multi-Tasking)
Graphic Card |GT 520 1GB DDR3 version|2,500 (Get of any brand)
PSU |Any Local Brand|500 (They will handle your config)
| Total |14,400

It overshoots your budget by 2.4K but get it you'll not regret later.

SMCInternational, PrimeABGB, Lynx, ITwares are good ones but tell me where are you located?

Take this config! :)
Its the best!
Suggest a PSU as i think a local brand may not provide that power...

@iamp4prathamesh, the Intel one as its being pared with a discrete GPU. A6 have HD6530 but HD5670 is better. but then again the former one cost ~1.5k more

In Photoshops,cores make a great difference.
Yes i agree for gaming,the intel config as suggested is good but the above one in great! :)
 
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iamp4prathamesh

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Component | Make | Price Processor |AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE|6400 (This will handle all your needs easily.)
Motherboard |Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P (rev. 3.1)|2600 (This mobo is AM3+ supported & can handle processor upto 125w TDP)
RAM |Corsair 1333mhz 2 x 4GB |2,400 (8GB Because of Multi-Tasking)
Graphic Card |GT 520 1GB DDR3 version|2,500 (Get of any brand)
PSU |Any Local Brand|500 (They will handle your config)
| Total |14,400

It overshoots your budget by 2.4K but get it you'll not regret later.

SMCInternational, PrimeABGB, Lynx, ITwares are good ones but tell me where are you located?
Can I get i3 2100 instead of phenom ?
AnandTech - Bench - CPU - i3 2100 scores better in benchmarks . Also if i3 then which mobo?
 

MyGeekTips

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Can I get i3 2100 instead of phenom ?
AnandTech - Bench - CPU - i3 2100 scores better in benchmarks . Also if i3 then which mobo?

There is nothing to be surprised of Core i3 2100's superior performance over a quad core Phenom II 955. Phenom II was actually launched to compete against the high end Core2Quad and Core2Extreme processors and performed very well on this role.
After the launch of Core2 series there are two generation of processor launched by Intel, the 1st gen Core i3/i5/i7 series based on Nehalem architecture and second generation Core i3/i5/i7 series based on Sandybridge architecture. Core i3 2100 is a Sandybridge processor and architecture wise far advanced than Phenon II series. It also has Hyper threading, resulting 4 logical cores.

But still Phenom II X4 955 is very attractive choice because:-

1. Although performance in gaming is less than i3 2100, it is not far behind and because it is an Black Edition processor, it can be overclocked to higher degree to fetch some extra performance.

2. In multi-threaded environment like Audio/Video encoding, editing or HD video decoding, due to the presence of 4 physical cores compared to 4 logical cores of i3 2100, it performs better

3. Normally games were not multi-threaded in nature and cannot take the advantage of multiple cores. But now a days, games' multi-threaded performance is increasing and upcoming games may be benefited from a True quad core like Phenom II X4 955 BE.

Source: Cilus Word's. :mrgreen:
 
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There is nothing to be surprised of Core i3 2100's superior performance over a quad core Phenom II 955. Phenom II was actually launched to compete against the high end Core2Quad and Core2Extreme processors and performed very well on this role.
After the launch of Core2 series there are two generation of processor launched by Intel, the 1st gen Core i3/i5/i7 series based on Nehalem architecture and second generation Core i3/i5/i7 series based on Sandybridge architecture. Core i3 2100 is a Sandybridge processor and architecture wise far advanced than Phenon II series. It also has Hyper threading, resulting 4 logical cores.

But still Phenom II X4 955 is very attractive choice because:-

1. Although performance in gaming is less than i3 2100, it is not far behind and because it is an Black Edition processor, it can be overclocked to higher degree to fetch some extra performance.

2. In multi-threaded environment like Audio/Video encoding, editing or HD video decoding, due to the presence of 4 physical cores compared to 4 logical cores of i3 2100, it performs better

3. Normally games were not multi-threaded in nature and cannot take the advantage of multiple cores. But now a days, games' multi-threaded performance is increasing and upcoming games may be benefited from a True quad core like Phenom II X4 955 BE.

Source: Cilus Word's. :mrgreen:
1. I'm not going to overclock.
2. Hmm , i'll not be doing any decoding , encoding .
3. Gaming isn't the main purpose , I'll be playing gaming in lowest settings.

I think i3 2100 will be a better choice . Please suggest a mobo for i3 rig.
 

MyGeekTips

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Gigabyte H61M-S2P-B3 / Gigabyte H61M-D2-B3 / MSI H61M-E23 (B3) @ 3300

If you can increase the budget by 2K for mobo then go Intel DH67CL-B3 @ 5.6K. This is a really good mobo & also comes with sata 6gpbs & usb3.0 & 4 DIMM Slots. :wink:
 

MyGeekTips

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checked flipkart it is 6,500 !
My finale config -
i3 2100 = 6,500
Gigabyte GA-H61M-D2 @ 3.4k
GT 520 1GB DDR3 version @ 2,500
Any Local Brand PSU @ 500
Corsair 1333mhz 4GB @ 1200
Total = 14.2 k
Is it good?

yes it is nice go for it. :) BTW, Where are you located?
 
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