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carnag3

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hey guys, I now have this hardware

Motherboards:
Ip35 PRO
Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3

CPU's:
C2D e8400 (overclocks to 3.6 easy)
Phenom 2, X3 720 Black Edition

Video Cards:
Ati 4850
Nvidia GTX260 not updated one

Ram:
Corsair VS 4 gig 800mhz
Corsair TX 4 gig 800mhz

PSU:
450W Corsair VX450
520 (I think) Corsair HX, maybe its 620?

the question is what combo would make the best pc? so its a build 2 machines out of these parts kind of thing... thanks guys.

these will bothe be used for photoshopping etc, and one more heavily for gaming...
eventually one on a 22" and one on a 24".
 
I would go with the Gigabyte + Phenom combo, GTX 260 video card, Corsair TwinX 4gigs and the Corsair 520HX or whatever one is correct hehe.
 
Well, the GTX260 outperforms the HD4850, so put that in whichever system is for gaming. As far as gaming goes, either CPU will do fine. For photoshop, again, they're about equal. For everything except encoding/transcoding/3d rendering, the E8400 performs similarly or better than the X3 720. Otherwise, the 720 outperforms the dual core intel. These are at stock speeds, btw.
 
i dont really understand that graph, how does it show the comparison? well if i include burning dvd's , ripping and raring, which is better then? it sounds an awful like the amd3core and the intel dual perform closely?
 
carnag3 said:
i would have thought the 3rd core would affect certain types of apps.
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Like I said...
enginurd said:
Well, the GTX260 outperforms the HD4850, so put that in whichever system is for gaming. As far as gaming goes, either CPU will do fine. For photoshop, again, they're about equal. For everything except encoding/transcoding/3d rendering, the E8400 performs similarly or better than the X3 720. Otherwise, the 720 outperforms the dual core intel. These are at stock speeds, btw.
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right so for 'encoding/transcoding/3d rendering' the x3 is slightly better, where as in everything else they are pretty much on par,

doe soverclocking affect these reccomendations, my 8400 is stable at 3.6 no probs...
 
A fast processor is only so effective with games. You have to remember that many of today's games are largely GPU-driven, so you may see little performance difference between the two processors. However, the third core in the X3 720 will aid with encoding because it adds another physical CPU that could be used to offload some background tasks.
 
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