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Originally Posted by Babaganoosh
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Agree'd, AMD fanboys still exist? lol, AMD have been inferior always, the only reason their exist is the same reason Aldi's food stores still exist :D
That AMD statement is so trollicious, it arose me from the dead to speak my mind
Let's seperate the players from the pro's.
You have one MFR choice for CPU.. Intel. Next you have a budget.
You seem to know what you want and thats a good thing.. However light gaming, is a bit unspecific.. And your bottleneck in your choice..
The higher quality chipset you choose, also contradicts your alternate components that will be required to support that chipset.
You have 2 current enthusiast chipsets, and then 1 choice.
1. The X58, (LGA 1366) which is now being replaced by the LGA 2011
This chipset is proven dominent and was one of the greatest investments ever, if you bought early on.. I have i7 920's going on 4+ years still on the same value it was back then in USED condition.. No other chipset in mankind has ever retained its value.. even close to its initial opening value.. EVER.
The X58 is currently running out of stock, but you can bargain shop this now, and get a good solid build for time to come..
The X58 is say in the current range you want today is... i7 960-990x (X) means clock us unlocked and you can overclock it.. in case you are unaware
I just picked up a i7 960 for $150 bucks at a retail store... Crazy insane.. Its $250 or so at newegg for the CPU
I can talk all day on this, but lets move on.
Replacing this now is the X79 (LG 2011) This is the top shit you want as a PC home/gamer encoder. Make no mistakes, and of course this is where you will
get bent in the pocketbook.. I have no personal exp yet wiht this chipset, but
being Intels Enthusiast product, you can be sure its the best of the best.
The more economical approach, and this one is where all the dreamers goto that can't
afford the enthusiast products, choose the 1155, powerful probably for everything you state, and probably the most used right now...
Define yourself light gaming.. Playing high end 3D games, but only for an hour? Or do you just want to boot up angry birds?
With high end graphics, you need HIGH END POWER, Antec True Power + in the range of 750watts plus
Asus for motherboard, features run rampant here, obvious choices needed, are expansion slots, mem max, usb 3/2, sata 6gbs, raid, nic, audio, and good chipsets.Speak to a knowledge guy when you figure out moreso what you need before pulling the plunger.
Video Card, need to find a budget here.. a good card is $500 for gaming...
A really good buy right now is the Nvidia 670... will be good for years to come and handle all gaming requirements... note the power supply here.
When getting a HIGH END video card, make sure you have a high end CPU as well. or they will fight each other.
Hard Drives etc, i recommend a small sata, and large HDD, and some external nas storage.
dvd burner...
GOOD BRAND RAM.. seriously 8 gigs is enough for plenty stuff today... go with what your booard prefers, the x58 likes the tri channel stuff... but not a big deal to stray into anything else
Corsair Dominator is my suggestion.
Good luck, i just rambled this off, so forgive me if i missed anything