Gaming rig for friend Buget 40K

[RON28]

ok final kar du phir?

 

[Cilus]

FX-8350 is just for multitasking...this idea does not hold good now a days. With the release of Far Cry 3 and Crysis 3, games have started using more than four cores seriously and FX-8350, FX -6300, even the older FX-4170 are competing against the pricier i5 and i7 models with very good performance. In Crysis 3, FX-8350 beats all the i5 Processors, even the costlier i5 3570K and performs just below i7 3770K, a processor which almost 10K highly priced. The upcoming games like Battlefield 4 is developed on Frostbite 3 engine which is developed from the beginning to use multiple cores optimally. We can easily assume that games of future are going to be optimized for multiple X86 based cores and one of the main reason for it is the design of upcoming consoles which are also using Multi-Core X86 modules. So game designers now have the freedom to optimize their developments for multi-core environments as it is available in both PC and Console front. Before that consoles used to have outdated and under powered hardware and it was a tough job for the designers to optimize a muti-platform games for both consoles and PC as powerful PC hardware were missing in the consoles and game developers were forced to use single core dependencies in PC games even though resources were available.
This is not just my opinion, if you follow Tomshardware and Anandtec in regular basis, you'll find out that they have predicted the same thing and in their Monthly builds and recommendations, they are suggesting Quad Core CPUs as bare minimum.

Also, AMD FX platform is going to be a long runner as their upcoming processors are supported in current AM3+ platform too. In case of Intel, Haswell is knocking at the door and after some time, it will be hard to find a LGA 1155 based Sandy or Ivy Bridge Processors.

 

[RON28]

ok then i should go with FX-8350 config

 

[Sainatarajan]

Yup, Go wid the FX 8350 and Post the Final config which you have opted.

 

[RON28]

last doubt,

friend saying to please post Intel and AMD rig,
he wants intel i5 with gtx 660 or fx 8350 with gtx 660? some one please post the config with these combos.

 

[harshilsharma63]

Intel rig:

i5 3450 (11000)
Gigabyte B75M DH3 (4000)
Corsair vengeance or G.skill ripjawsx 4 GB (2100-2200) get the cheaper out of two
WD blue 1 TB (3900)
Asus GTX 660 2 GB (15500)
Corsair GS500 (4000)
NZXT Gamma (2500)
Dell st2240l (8500)

total: 51k

AMD rig:

fx8350 (11500)
Asus m5a97 Evo r2.0 (6800)
Corsair vengeance or G.skill ripjawsx 4 GB (2100-2200) get the cheaper out of two
WD blue 1 TB (3900)
Asus GTX 660 2 GB (15500)
Corsair GS500 (4000)
NZXT Gamma (2500)
Dell st2240l (8500)

total: 54800

 

[Myth]

Both rigs can use the Corsair Value rams @ 1.4-1.5k
Monitor : AOC I2251FWE @ 8k
With money saved above, upgrade gpu to 7870.

If GPU upgrade is not possible for whatever reason, the intel rig can do with the Corsair cx430v2. Both, 3450 and 660, have quite low power consumption.

 

[harshilsharma63]

Both rigs can use the Corsair Value rams @ 1.4-1.5k
Monitor : AOC I2251FWE @ 8k
With money saved above, upgrade gpu to 7870.

If GPU upgrade is not possible for whatever reason, the intel rig can do with the Corsair cx430v2. Both, 3450 and 660, have quite low power consumption.

> Corsair value select rams would be okay with the Intel rig as it's not overclockable, but for the AMD rig, OP shppuld go for Corsair vengance or ruipjawsx for a complete overclock package.

> Andy specific reason for the other monitor?

 

[Myth]

> Corsair value select rams would be okay with the Intel rig as it's not overclockable, but for the AMD rig, OP shppuld go for Corsair vengance or ruipjawsx for a complete overclock package.

> Andy specific reason for the other monitor?

Try to save money for the 7870.