vxspiritxv
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I need a little help with this, I always buy overkill for myself, and have no experience in finding the cheapest thing to do the job. I have a friend with an amd 6000+ system that has crashed since day one doing anything intensive, I'm not going to even bother attempting to fix it, my guess would be a bios/memory issue because it runs fine otherwise and temps are fine, not overclocked. Anyways, looking for the least expensive processor that will give a good experience for that game, without overclocking. A videocard will be given to him (it will most likely be my other friends nvidia 9800gtx, which I believe is pic-e, at least I hope it is, if not, ill give him my 260 when I upgrade to the 580, once the price goes down to msrp).
My quick choice would be Intel Core i3-540 ($114.99 newegg) but seems kinda high price at being the 'cheapest option', without looking at celerons, for which I haven't owned since the 300A. Should I be looking at AMD for him? AMD Phenom 9850 ($69.99) looks like a way better deal?
My quick choice would be Intel Core i3-540 ($114.99 newegg) but seems kinda high price at being the 'cheapest option', without looking at celerons, for which I haven't owned since the 300A. Should I be looking at AMD for him? AMD Phenom 9850 ($69.99) looks like a way better deal?