lesser-equity

Magazine
Go Back   Computer Juice > Computer Hardware > General Hardware Chat


Register


Reply
 
Thread Tools
  #1  
Old 3rd Oct 2009, 21:40
New Member Group
 
is this a good build?

G-B P55-UD5
Intel Core i7-860
Gigabyte 896M GTX 275
4G Kit DDR3 2000 G.Skill-Trident
Seagate SATA 320G
Seagate SATA 1TB
Samsung SATA DVDRW
Corsair Power Supply 750W
Thermaltake Armor+ MX

for the mobo should i get this one or the ASUS p7p55D-pro
  #2  
Old 5th Oct 2009, 09:39
Member Group
 
It's not bad but the I7's are useless for gaming, far better value to go with an I5 or even ye olde E8400 if you're just playing games.
  #3  
Old 5th Oct 2009, 11:34
Donor Group
 
A i5 750, UD3L, 4890, 4GB DDR3-1600, one or two 1TB Blacks, and a 520HX would be much better.
__________________
"I loved the P182 so much that, when my wife's system was all noisy and needed all sorts of cleaning, I bought her one. Then, when I wanted a cat, I bought a P182. The P182 is not a cat per se, but it's still an excellent buy."
__________________

My System: 日夏子

Processor(s):
Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13 -> 3.01ghz
Motherboard:
MSI P6N SLI Platinum LGA 775
RAM Memory:
2GB Patriot Extreme Performance
Graphics Card(s):
PNY 8800GTS 320MB
Sound Card:
Sound Blaster Xtremegamer 7.1
Hard Drive(s):
80GB + 500GB
Optical Drive(s):
2x SATA
Case / PSU:
Antec 900 + 620W Aerocool zeroDBA
Cooling:
4x 120mm Yate-Loon + 200mm top
Network / Internet:
Qwest
Monitor(s):
Dell 22" S2209W (1920x1080)
Operating System(s):
Windows XP + 7
Reply

Register
Thread Tools




Arabic Bulgarian Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Spanish Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian

Copyright ©2006 - 2009 Computer Juice.

Powered by vBulletin® Copyright ©2000 - 2009 Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. SEO by vBSEO ©2009, Crawlability, Inc.