MB: Asus M4A87TD EVO AMD 870 Sockel AM3 84 eur/113 usd
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1075T 6x 3.00GHz boxed 125 Watt 137 eur/183 usd
GPU: PowerColor 1024MB 6870 PCIe 2.1 152 eur/205 usd
RAM: 4GB Corsair XMS3 Kit PC3-12800U (DDR3-1600) 28 eur/ 38 usd
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 6Gb/s ST500DM002 35 eur/ 47 usd
Disk drive: Samsung SH-B123L Blu-ray SATA 56 eur/75 usd
adds up to 519 eur/700 usd
Did I miss any incompatibilities? I picked a mainboard with AM3 socket/USB 3.0 kind of at random so if anyone has a better idea I welcome it... Also I still need a power unit, does anyone have any suggestions for that or about my configuration in general? What kind of wattage am I going to need? The stock CPU cooler should be enough if I don't plan on doing any overclocking?
Thanks in advance
EDIT:
For the power supply I'm guessing this: be quiet! Pure Power L7 530W 55 eur/ 75 usd
price seems to be alright and it seems to be one of the few with 2 PCIe cables which seem to be required for the 6870^^ and 530 watts should be enough.
The phenom ii 6x3 ghz seems a bit overkill, an athlon ii 645 x4 (4x3.1ghz) 90 eur/ 120 usd seems more appropriate; it's a good bit cheaper too. What exactly is the difference between the phenoms and athlons?
EDIT 2:
Apparently the Athlons/Phenoms only support RAM at 1333Mhz, so 4GB Corsair XMS3 2x2GB Kit PC3-10666 (DDR3-1333) same price and is it just me or is AMD Phenom II X4 980 Prozessor 3,7GHz Black Edition Box 95eur/125usd too cheap?
Last edited by Narida; October 1st, 2011 at 06:41 PM.
AMD is seemingly delaying Bulldozer due to yield issues. I doubt Intel will drop prices to compete with AMD until it makes a consumer launch. Intel is supposed to be refreshing the 2600k spot with a 2700k sometime before Holiday though. Other than that, you'll probably find yourself waiting till February for SandyBridge-E for the next price change.
Ugh. I'm not willing to wait till the holidays. My iMac can play BF3 @ 30FPS on low settings and at a severely reduced res of 1280x720, but I need a PC that will play it proper at 1680x1050 on medium at the least. AMD setup it is. At least I'll be ready for bulldozer with my AM3+ MB.
Last edited by Amit; October 2nd, 2011 at 08:58 PM.
KK, post pics of 550 beside 590 when it comes in today!
EDIT: Just looked into your motherboard PCIe layout. According to the specs on Newegg you'll get:
"2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (single at x16 or dual at x8/x8 mode)"
So if you use the 550 as a PPU in the second PCIe slot then the GTX 590 will run at x8 speeds. I'm not sure how much bandwidth a 590 will actually use, but keep in mind that your board has PCIe 2.0 slots (probably 2.1). PCIe 2.0 x16 is 8GB/s, so PCIe 2.0 x8 is going to be 4GB/s which is still quite a bit...
Last edited by Cortexian; October 3rd, 2011 at 09:41 AM.
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