decent rig under 10k

dabster

In the zone
Planning to upgrade a old sempron 2500+ km800 based rig used at home.(Telling for reference the requirement are not huge and hence the budget)

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: No hefty games. Unreal tournament sometimes. office applications, pro e(cad software), autocad 2004 etc.

2. What is your overall budget? If you can extend a bit for a more balanced configuration, then mention this too.
Ans: 10k

3. Planning to overclock?
Ans:no

4. Which Operating System are you planning to use?
Ans:windows 7 mostly.. all app in use have support for win7

5. How much hard drive space is needed?
Ans: have an old IDE one - reuse or might just get a new SATA - no limitation have an external one.

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:No

7. Which components you DON'T want to buy or which components you already have and plan on reusing?
Ans:hdd, dvd rom, keyboard, mouse, monitor

8. When are you planning to buy the system?
Ans: 1months time max

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

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: online is ok.

11. Anything else which you would like to say?
Ans:
How does a amd athlon x2 with amd 880 looks.
or intel 630 pentium with any h61 mobo.
Both are budget options and hence looking. I sincerely believe its better to spend money on ssd rather than on number crunching cpu unnecessarily.
will upgrade to ssd in future for this rig.
 

whitestar_999

Super Moderator
Staff member
not even a competition.pentium G630 wins hands down against any amd dual core & even tri cores.you do have to buy a sata hdd though because there is no ide support in current generation mobos.
 

truegenius

UNPREDICTABLE
If you can find a cheap a55 based board then a6-3500 or a6-3670 will be good for you and none of the intel's cpu can mess with them in terms of onboard graphics capability

Otherwise pentium g630 is a great deal too but don't expect much in gaming department without a dedicated gpu
 
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dabster

In the zone
If you can find a cheap a55 based board then a6-3500 or a6-3670 will be good for you and none of the intel's cpu can mess with them in terms of onboard graphics capability

Otherwise pentium g630 is a great deal too but don't expect much in gaming department without a dedicated gpu

This is on my mind. Shear math crunching isn't on my mind, hence amd FM1 based solution on my mind. 6k-7k processor and mobo is target and since hdd isn't compitible increasing budget to 11-12k max. Any ideas when fm2 going to available. I can wait for a month.
 

truegenius

UNPREDICTABLE
desktop trinity is scheduled to launch in October (probably 1st week of oct)
so we may se some trinity parts in india in oct-nov period
 
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