RZ's Personal Marine
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1. the hexa core design is able to disable 3 cores and put more power to the three other cores when multi-core isnt needed as much.
2. the only factor that i have run into in non brand name products, is how you run them, if you make them run hotter, then yes then yes they will burn out faster, but if you take care of a system it doesnt matter what you put it in.
3. You pay for a name most of the time, if you get a PSU with the same 80+ certs, same Watts, and power rails, its the same thing cept for a name, and it dont matter most of them are built in China, Taiwan, Vietnam or other 3rd world countries anyway.
4. If you dont think it would run 1866Mhz memory, then it doesnt have to have it, i just put it as options for people.
5. as far as an SSD i know the first one i put is slower, but its still faster than a traditional SSD, i was going pure Budget on that.
if you dont want to take my build into consideration, then dont, i was just putting it to show that a 6 core computer is accessable under a budget build. and if you have a computer that has lasted 5 or more years, then it has done its job, i have a desktop that i built in 2005 that has most non-brand name items in it, it is still going, and my laptop that ive had for 3 years and has been to Iraq and back is still going.
brand shouldnt matter if you know how to keep up with your computer.
well i try and not spend more than $100 on peices i dont have to, that is how i keep my PCs from costing too mush, i will sacrifice quality for money, if it lasts almost as long as the top of the line stuff, it has done its job
and i have not built this yet, i am waiting on my payment from the VA for school so i can write it off on taxes as school use
but i also do not need a case, CD/DVD burner, or Win7, i am only gonna get the SSD for the boot drive, i have a 500GB drive in my old computer to use, its in a full tower, which is the one i built in 2005, i am just gonna put it in one of my smaller cases i have lying around with its 60GB boot drive just to use as a spare computer
i have also added a new mobo to the pc guide, i put it for the performance options, it is still a gigabyte, but one of the higher end ones, has 16x and 8x pcie slots and will still work with either of the RAM selections
if you would keep the 6 core cpu, which build would you make with it, if you can completely keep it under $700, which is around what i plan to spend on the new build, minus the OS, Case, Fans, and CD drive?
hmm, i might wait to see how much the bulldozer CPUs will cost, and maybe i might fork out the extra money for it, i will look for updates on my build and try and get it as fast as i can for the money (sacrificing quality a lil bit of course) but i will not get cheap crap that matters