PC Buying Guide 2011- Q4

[max_snyper]

Bought new rig from primeabgb for rs.41300
excluding HDD,dvd-rw,Monitor.
see signature.

 

[Skud]

Congos. Any plan on monitor upgrade?

 

[d6bmg]

^^ Congrats!! Pics!
But P8Z68 V-PRO @14.5K?? I think its too much overpriced.

 

[max_snyper]

Thankx...!
@skud....led tv plans in february so not gonna change my current monitor
@d6bmg....yesterday i searched for both msi z68-gd65-g3 & asus z68-v pro whole of lamington,msi was unavaliable & asus was hovering over 14.2k so went ahead and took the deal with asus. from prime coz they handle rma good.

 

[$$Lionking$$]

AMD FX-6100 price drops to 9275/-

AMD

 

[skeletor]

It should drop more and FX-4100 should get around 4200.

 

[$$Lionking$$]

let IB come out nd it will drop probably to 3k.. heheh..

 

[Skud]

8150 should come down to 12-12.5k.

 

[$$Lionking$$]

Skud - 12k is still too much for 8150...!! it shud be around 9k-10k

 

[Extreme Gamer]

@Lionking: Its priced ~$259 MSRP in the US...

 

[Skud]

Skud - 12k is still too much for 8150...!! it shud be around 9k-10k

Without going for any fight, it's more or less on par with 2500k, so 12k is a OK price I think.

 

[$$Lionking$$]

Skud - Ok let me put it this way - Im not gonna buy it till it drops to 9-10k..

no, its not on par with 2500k... its only at par with 2500k if apps are highly threaded... otherwise its behind PII... so it shud cost less than i5...

 

[nilgtx260]

FX 8150 is on par with i5 2500K, FX 8120 is equal to i5 2400/2500 I think. both FX are 25% overpriced.

look how even a i5 2400 crushing FX 8150 in most of the benches, specially gaming.
AnandTech - Bench - CPU

 

[Extreme Gamer]

I have said this many times before: Discard any benchmarks with Asus Crosshair V Formula as the system mobo.
Also, there is the issue of thread assignment in windows 7 :shrug:

 

[Cilus]

Off topic: Guys, just received my RMAed Corsair TX850 PSU. Mine was a normal TX 850 that sacrificed itself to save my all the PC components due to heavy voltage fluctuation in my area. I submitted it for RMA in the last Saturday to the Kaizen Service center, Corsair service center in BBSR.
Yesterday, at 12:15 I have received a Blue DIRT parcel from them in my door step, written Kaizen all over it.
I opened it with and guess what; It is a TX 850V2 80+ bronze one.

Hats off to Corsair's service. It looks like they not only build rock solid products but also provide rock solid after sales Service too.

 

[nilgtx260]

^^ congrats

found this on msi site MSI Global – Power Supply Calculator pretty helpful though

 

[MegaMind]

found this on msi site MSI Global – Power Supply Calculator pretty helpful though

There is a bug, according to this site the pow. consumption of amd GPUs are,
6970 - 148W
6950 - 176W
6870 - 225W
6850 - 150W

 

[nilgtx260]

^^ ya I saw this & even surprised, surely it's bug

Intel Ivy Bridge 22nm Core i7 3770K (ES) Benchmarks Unveiled

 

[d6bmg]

^^ ya I saw this & even surprised, surely it's bug

Intel Ivy Bridge 22nm Core i7 3770K (ES) Benchmarks Unveiled

^^ If they aren't fake, then it looks great! Now waiting for the launch!

 

[aby geek]

^^ when is ivy bridge launch do we have any speculated dates?