What is better

iccows 2010-04-03 10:06:26 UTC #1

Dear members

im building a gaming pc and have to motherboards in mind but dont no which is better for a high performance gaming pc i wanted quad core but i dont really mind i just want it to be fast my options were
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/193509
or
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midders 2010-04-03 11:05:23 UTC #2

Generally, Gigabyte (and Asus) have always produced reliable and well regarded mobos, so I would recommend sticking to one of these brands for the most part.

As for which processor to buy, I’m an AMD man myself just because they’re cheaper than Intel for the equivalent processing power. Buy the best CPU that you can afford; if you plot a graph of clock speed against price for a give CPU range (e.g. Phenom X2) it should be a roughly straight line upto the point where you start paying a premium for the latest technology. This is often a good place to start.

Slainte

midders

eric93se 2010-04-03 13:42:08 UTC #3

iccows, whatever you do don’t buy that AMD combo deal you linked to, thats very outdated stuff.

If your on a budget get either an AMD based system with a MB that has the 770 or 785G chipset, make sure it has the AM3 socket and uses DDR3 memory. If you want to spend a bit more and go Intel, then get a MB with the P55 chipset and the model 750 CPU.

iccows 2010-04-03 14:12:55 UTC #4

thank you for your help but one other thing i wanted to buy a NVIDIA Geforce GTX260 graphics card however the graphics card is SLI will the motherboard in the link above support this and will this cpu fit both the gigabyte mtherboard and support the SLI graphics card ???
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/186428

RJL65 2010-04-03 14:33:01 UTC #5

[QUOTE=iccows;2507237]thank you for your help but one other thing i wanted to buy a NVIDIA Geforce GTX260 graphics card however the graphics card is SLI will the motherboard in the link above support this and will this cpu fit both the gigabyte mtherboard and support the SLI graphics card ???
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/186428[/QUOTE]

Regrettably, that CPU will not fit the GigaByte motherboard that you linked to. In fact, that GigaByte motherboard is for Intel Core i3/i5/i7 Socket 1156 processors. And of the quad-core processors, the least expensive CPU that’s compatible with that GigaByte motherboard is the Intel Core i5-750 (less expensive Intel processors compatible with that GigaByte motherboard are only dual-core; however, those dual-core i-series processors can use the onboard graphics capabilities of the H55 chipset that cannot be used by the higher-end processors - in other words, a PCIe graphics card is required with a quad-core CPU on that motherboard).