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Originally Posted by
mohit9206Â
ivy bridge pentium would be great and cheap.
add a cheap H61 mobo, some cheap ram, a decent psu and a 5830 from his friend and he has a good mid level build for gaming
I'm not sure about how much I've not explained, and it's likely I haven't explained anything, but overall the grasp of who has which hardware - and who is who in the first place - is slightly muddled. I apologize. Objectively, this is good input. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by
StayFrostyÂ
Tell him to save like $300-$350 so he can upgrade to a i3-2100 and a 7850 2GB, he'll be more than happy with the performance improvement.
This makes sense. Is it that much, though? A 21XX and a used 7850 should be about $200. Well, all the more to upgrade or the less to save either way.
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Originally Posted by
BinaryDemonÂ
... But if you are serious about the FM2 switch, check the memory he's using. Something like DDR3-1066 or DDR3-1333 will significantly gimp AMD's APU performance....
This is an awesome point as actually he has 4GB of DDR3-1333. It's not exactly a problem since I have 8GB of DDR3-1600 for him to use as an upgrade, but with an H61 chipset apparently limiting the speed to 1066 with that G630, we don't need to worry too much about memory right now. Thanks, though! That's awesome insight.
