(17/08/2010 04:19 AM)Assassinator Wrote:  Know what... All in all... I believe there's a lot of truth in that...  Really.

(21/05/2010 04:32 AM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  In all honesty, even a basic Athlon II X4 CPU is more than powerful enough for the majority of people.

Especially if you're a "gamer".

Gamers are going to be GPU bottle necked.  Really... even the weakest Athlon2 x4 is a 2.6GHz quad core, which you can overclock to like 3.4-3.6GHz.  And like what game ever requires you to have a 3.4GHz quad?

AthlonII is like the best value CPU ever.... errr... maybe besides for the earlier line Phenom2 x2's, which you can unlock to make them quads, effectively giving you 2x the power (3x, after you overclock)!

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Lol, I updated my old random build theory crafting...  All in Australian Dollars, and pretty much all using parts from MSY, because that's the shop I use (and probably the best prices in Australia).

Not saying you should follow these, since after all, they're tuned according to my requirements (especially the "encodebox" builds... who here encodes shit all day besides for me?), my ideology (efficiency, spending more money on parts that actually effect performance, not paying premiums for stuff that probably doesn't make any difference), the parts and prices I can get, and that I WILL overclock.

Also note that the $1600 builds probably won't do all that much better than the $1000 builds in terms of raw performance, nowhere near the 60% price increase in any case, not even 1/2 that.  By build style (performance prioritizing cost distribution.... errr... skimping out on the "other stuff"...) is mainly to blame for that, the more expensive builds are mostly catching up on the non-performance areas.

(This post was last modified: 18/08/2010 05:43 AM by Assassinator.)