PC Buying Guide - March 2011

[vickybat]

^^540 will increase budget by 500 bucks. you can oc the 2.93 of 530 to 3.06 of 540..

Pentium g6950 costs 4.8k..Intel Pentium G6950 ? Lynx - The Audio , Electronics And Computer Online Store In India..
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Yes but i3 540 gives slightly better performance out of the box due to higher clockspeed and many buyers are not into overclocking.Its not simple to overclock i3 540 by regular users due to its locked multiplier & chipset voltage has to be tinkered which is not everyones cup of tea. Therefore many wouldn,t go this way and will stick with stock speeds.

So you can go for 540 even if the budget goes up by 500 bucks.
And talk about g6950, i3 530 & i3 540 are some 5.3k & 5.4k respectively in lynx whereas its available at 4.5 k in retail. So G6950 should be cheaper( not sure about this though). Somebody has to confirm.

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

aby i will add dual monitor in above 100k. in 50k and 85k the gfx cards consume a lot of bucks. so to create a balance i had to add a single monitor.
i have read reviews about the cards and will add 7800 and 8800 firepro in above 100k.
about the combo -
1. LGA775 old
2. the 950 + sabertooth costs 25.8k...930 + pro e is not vfm at 26.4k..

vickybat i3 530 is one of the most easiest chips to oc..it oces like hell!!

vicky see this - The Intel Core i3 530 Review - Great for Overclockers & Gamers - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News

 

[vickybat]

aby i will add dual monitor in above 100k. in 50k and 85k the gfx cards consume a lot of bucks. so to create a balance i had to add a single monitor.
i have read reviews about the cards and will add 7800 and 8800 firepro in above 100k.
about the combo -
1. LGA775 old
2. the 950 + sabertooth costs 25.8k...930 + pro e is not vfm at 26.4k..

vickybat i3 530 is one of the most easiest chips to oc..it oces like hell!!

vicky see this - The Intel Core i3 530 Review - Great for Overclockers & Gamers - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News

Thats what i am saying. Its great for overclockers but what about non overclockers or people who don't want to overclock?

For them i think i3 540 would be good option with marginal price increase.It too can be oc'ed if needed similarly. Don't you think?

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

ok..as you say buddy ...

 

[mitraark]

The price difference between 530 and 540 in Kolkata is Rs 150 , so 540 is the way to go

530 - Rs 4350 , 540 - Rs 4500 : + 4%

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

which is better - APC or Numeric?

 

[vickybat]

No.1 - APC
No.2- Numeric

According to digit magazine.

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

This UPS thing is giving me a headache now.
if this is correct i have to update and adjust all over again - APC UPS Price in India - Updated


shall i remove ups and leave it to buyer?

 

[vickybat]

Suggest apc ups only and leave the rest to the buyer. And jas the apc pricelist you posted has much higher prices. The 650 va is listed as 3.3k whereas i got it for 2.6k. Same goes for 1000va. Its much cheaper. So the pricelist should be obtained from rashi peripherals as they are the distributors atleast in my place.

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

how much for the 800VA then? can u get a complete price list from rashi.

 

[aby geek]

Theitdepot - UPS

umm why 1100va cheaper than 800,please point out any major tech differences we should know.

 

[vickybat]

Prices are still on the higher side in the list.

Jas i'll call rashi and get the pricelist tommorow.

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

vickybat price list please??

guys one thing about ram -
Corsair Dominator GT or Kingston HyperX or Mushkin Blackline?
which is best?

 

[Cilus]

Adding a new Type for Dedicated PhysX card
75K with Dedicated PhysX card (for Advance Users)

Phenom II X6 1090T (3.2 GHz, 6 cores, 2 MB L2, 6 MB L3) @ 11.6K
Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H Motherboard @ 8.4K
Corsair 1333 MHz 2X2 GB DDR-III Memory TW3X4G1333C9A @ 3.2K
Seagate 1 TB SATA @ 2.7K
Corsair TX650W @ 6.5K
Cooler Master Elite 430 @ 2.8K
Main Graphics card: Sapphire HD 6870 @ 14.5K
PhysX Graphics card: Biostar GT 240 1 GB GDDR3 @ 4.2K
Samsung P2350 @ 10.8k
Razer Death Adder @ 2.2k
Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 @ 1k
APC 1000VA @ 5k
Altec Lansing VS2621 @ 1.6k
LG 22X SATA DVD @ 0.9K

Total 75.4K

Created this one as some of the forum members have complained about their inability to use PhysX with Radeon cards due to unplayable fps, specially vickybat.
This needs an valid hack (tested in guru3d and Tomshardware) to apply over the installed Nvidia driver to overwrite the limitation of using Nvidia cards with only Nvidia cards. So mentioned it for advance users.
If you want to use Nvidia cards as main card then GTX 470 @ 16K will be a good option.
This will enable users to enable PhysX in all the games and getting a very good performance. MAFIA II and other PhysX games will run like a charm with PhysX enabled.

CPU choice is 1090T here to cut the budget as its gaming performance is marginally lower than i5 760. But as it is designed for advance users, it can be overclocked to minimum 3.6 GHz in stalk cooler without any issue to get past i5 760's performance.

I'm going to add some more PhysX configurations if you guys wanna add it in the PC Buying guide. Even the sub 85K budget can also be derived from this budget by adding a Core i7 950 and the MSI X58 pro mobo.

Another Sub 60K PhysX config from my side:

Phenom II X4 955 @ 7.2K
ECS A890GXM-A 7.3K
Corsair 1333 MHz 2X2 GB DDR-III Memory TW3X4G1333C9A @ 3.2K
Seagate 1 TB SATA @ 2.7K
Corsair Vx550 @ 4.7K or Corsair GS600 @ 4.8K
Main Graphics card: Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 @ 11.2K
PhysX card: Zotac 9600GT 512 MB eco @ 3.6K
Logitech MX518 @ 1.2K
Logitech KB-200 @ 0.4K
NZXT GAMMA @ 2k
Benq G2220HD @ 7.3k
Numeric 1KVA @ 4.1k
Altec Lansing VS2621 @ 1.6k
LG 22X SATA DVD @ 0.9k

Total 56.5K. The reasons of choosing the ECS motherboard are mainly two
1. Very good build quality with well placed components.
2. Highly overclockable
3. 3 PCI Express X16 slot for Crossfire @ X8 mode + X4 mode for PhysX card

 

[vickybat]

+1 for cilus's config.

 

[aby geek]

jasji you forgot gskill ripjaws

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

nice concept cilus

in the 60k one an ASUS M4A87TD EVO @ 6.4k should suffice. it has another pcie x4 for the 9600GT. ASUS oces better than ECS. Spend the rest on Zotac GT240.

now cilus can you answer my question on memory in previous post.

 

[vickybat]

vickybat price list please??

guys one thing about ram -
Corsair Dominator GT or Kingston HyperX or Mushkin Blackline?
which is best?

Corsair dominators & kingston hyperx comes in the priority list. Have got custom cooling, and can cun run at very tight timings.

Can't say about mushkin blackline. Dominators are used in test review setups for benchmarks so they are extremely good & so are the hyperx.

 

[Cilus]

nice concept cilus

in the 60k one an ASUS M4A87TD EVO @ 6.4k should suffice. it has another pcie x4 for the 9600GT. ASUS oces better than ECS. Spend the rest on Zotac GT240.

now cilus can you answer my question on memory in previous post.

The ECS one is better than ASUS, Jas, check the review in GURU3D. Even if you look at the picture of the motherboard, you will see the very nice layout and high (military grade) quality components. In fact initially I thought to introduce it to sub 75K configuration for a 2 way Xfire + PhysX configuration.
Regarding your ram query, The rating should be Corsair, Kingston and then Muskin. Check the Tomshardware review over here.

 

[napster007]

It is not overclocked and quiet and cool was enabled.

It is not even an intel chipset board with LGA 1156 socket . As I've said, its MSI 890GXM-G65.

Its and AMD 890G board paired with an x6 normally on 60-80% load whenever it was used. The board caught on fire- literally. See the damage you can actually see the copper plate through the top burnt PCB layer. I have also seen some board where the soldering is done all the way through the board but rather till the surface of the board.

One of the visible mistakes done on the board:
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I'm running the same board..890gxm-g65 with phenom II x4 955..... it runs smooth with a games as of now... should i be worried???