Hello there!
This is my very first post here, because this is my very first build, ever.
So, I´m struggling for a couple of months now to learn how to choose the parts, wich I think is the most difficult and stressing part. I´ve read how to post here, so I give you all the information needed to ask you for help.
I´m in Argentina, so, every component is expensive for me, and I usually have to add newegg prices somewhat 40% to get what I´m going to pay for them. In my case I´ll try to spend less than USD 2000 (what would be something like 1100 for newegg standards).
I want to build a pc that allows me to open several programs at once and work with video editing software. I use it for work most of the time. It will run with Windows 7.
BUT, I would like it to be able to play the latest videogames in high configurations (like mass effect 3 for example), because I like to play too (but I do not consider myself as a serial gamer).
I would like to be able to work with two video cards some day if I buy another one, and I would like to overclock if I need to, someday in the future.
I´ve got a 19" monitor, that I would like to upgrade someday, but I´m conformatble with it, so I´m not planning to do so in the near future.
I want a silent machine. And I won´t buying an extra coller anytime soon (surely if I need to overclock someday).
Now I´ve come with this stuff, please tell me what you think:
ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe (1155)
INTEL Core i7 SB - 2600K @ 3.40 GHz (1155)
ASUS NVIDIA GTX 570 DirectCU II - 1.28 GB DDR5
(OR ZOTAC that´s a little cheaper)
Then I thought about a Plan B, a little cheaper for me:
Asus Corsair V
AMD FX8120
XFX ATI Radeon 6970
I´ve read at this forum several (and I mean several) posts hoping to choose from an AMD or Intel build and to choose the mother.
Now I´m more confused than before 🙂
I´ve read that:
- AMD processors sucks, and the 8 core is no better than the i7-2600k.
- gtx 570 is very similar to radeon 6970 in performance, specially in monitors that doesn´t play in very high res.
- performance of the video card will depend on each game (so this is driving me crazy, as I don´t know what games I´ll play in the future).
- Some charts shows different performance of both video cards for each game, but as the ati one has more Mhz, the nvidia has a better bus, and I´ve read somewhere that the bus is the most important thing. The gtx has 320 bit rate, and the radeon has 256. Are the Mhz more important? What characteristic should I consider to be better?
- the gtx 570 can overclock big time, and almost as a 580. But I´ve read from a poster than the radeon can get to the 580 too...
- I´ve read that some games and applications "like" or "work better" with Nvidia video cards. Is that a myth?
What do you recommend?, I need to work with my pc, and open somethings like a video editor and photoshop, while browse with several windows too... but I eould like to play new games too.
Hope you can guide me here or give me some clues.
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rosamunda
This is my very first post here, because this is my very first build, ever.
So, I´m struggling for a couple of months now to learn how to choose the parts, wich I think is the most difficult and stressing part. I´ve read how to post here, so I give you all the information needed to ask you for help.
I´m in Argentina, so, every component is expensive for me, and I usually have to add newegg prices somewhat 40% to get what I´m going to pay for them. In my case I´ll try to spend less than USD 2000 (what would be something like 1100 for newegg standards).
I want to build a pc that allows me to open several programs at once and work with video editing software. I use it for work most of the time. It will run with Windows 7.
BUT, I would like it to be able to play the latest videogames in high configurations (like mass effect 3 for example), because I like to play too (but I do not consider myself as a serial gamer).
I would like to be able to work with two video cards some day if I buy another one, and I would like to overclock if I need to, someday in the future.
I´ve got a 19" monitor, that I would like to upgrade someday, but I´m conformatble with it, so I´m not planning to do so in the near future.
I want a silent machine. And I won´t buying an extra coller anytime soon (surely if I need to overclock someday).
Now I´ve come with this stuff, please tell me what you think:
ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe (1155)
INTEL Core i7 SB - 2600K @ 3.40 GHz (1155)
ASUS NVIDIA GTX 570 DirectCU II - 1.28 GB DDR5
(OR ZOTAC that´s a little cheaper)
Then I thought about a Plan B, a little cheaper for me:
Asus Corsair V
AMD FX8120
XFX ATI Radeon 6970
I´ve read at this forum several (and I mean several) posts hoping to choose from an AMD or Intel build and to choose the mother.
Now I´m more confused than before 🙂
I´ve read that:
- AMD processors sucks, and the 8 core is no better than the i7-2600k.
- gtx 570 is very similar to radeon 6970 in performance, specially in monitors that doesn´t play in very high res.
- performance of the video card will depend on each game (so this is driving me crazy, as I don´t know what games I´ll play in the future).
- Some charts shows different performance of both video cards for each game, but as the ati one has more Mhz, the nvidia has a better bus, and I´ve read somewhere that the bus is the most important thing. The gtx has 320 bit rate, and the radeon has 256. Are the Mhz more important? What characteristic should I consider to be better?
- the gtx 570 can overclock big time, and almost as a 580. But I´ve read from a poster than the radeon can get to the 580 too...
- I´ve read that some games and applications "like" or "work better" with Nvidia video cards. Is that a myth?
What do you recommend?, I need to work with my pc, and open somethings like a video editor and photoshop, while browse with several windows too... but I eould like to play new games too.
Hope you can guide me here or give me some clues.
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rosamunda
