LGA 775 rig! Worth or not?

[CreativeTHC]

Hi,

.. Im interesting to make a rig on LGA775, and I want to know other ppl idea if it worth or not. I'm thinking around 200pounds ($325 or 240euros) rig. I only need a cpu a motherboard and at least 4gb drr3 1333+ .. this rig will have a gtx 480 and it will be for moslty MMORPG's games (CPU based -unreal engine.) I don't want any bottleneck witht the 480, cuz right now there is a AMD dual core and it's doing a huge bottleneck, all games make the gpu work only 20% max, even if they are mmo or offline.. anyway. I want to know what I can buy for this amount of money and I also want to hear both opinions from AMD parts and Intel if is possible. Thanks!

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

I just bought an AMD FX 8320 + 8GB RAM and a motherboard for £210.

 

You should do the same. LGA 775 stuff is too old, slow and expensive for it to be worth buying.

[Mooshi]

For 325usd you can get an FX-6300 6-core, decent mobo and 8GB of ram. (and this is going off inflated Australian prices - I had to help an Aussie friend plan on upgrading from an Q6600 with a budget)

 

It's not worth bothering with LGA775 these days unless you have plenty of reusable parts laying around to cobble together an office machine or something. If starting from scratch, the legacy premium on older parts isn't worth it.

[paulsterio]

$325 just get an LGA1155 motherboard and a Celeron G1610 or a Pentium. You can easily do that with $325.

[JoshM]

No lol

[JoshM]

$325 just get an LGA1155 motherboard and a Celeron G1610 or a Pentium. You can easily do that with $325.

No way, AMD is a way better option, Fx6300 will flog a Pentium or celeron, and if you want to upgrade he can get an fx8350 which will be a better upgrade then a 3570k.

[Blackterror25]

Try getting the components second hand off a friend or something so you can get them cheap. Otherwise, not worth it.

[CreativeTHC]

I just bought an AMD FX 8320 + 8GB RAM and a motherboard for £210.

 

You should do the same. LGA 775 stuff is too old, slow and expensive for it to be worth buying.

 

interesting, can you tell me more about your motherboard and ram pls. Thanks.

$325 just get an LGA1155 motherboard and a Celeron G1610 or a Pentium. You can easily do that with $325.

you're obviously kidding.. I said I do have an dual core which does bottleneck with gtx 480... but thanks anyway for your interest and the time.

[JoshM]

If you can get a 1366 setup cheap that maybe be worth it, but i would advise going for a 6300 setup 

[BlackOutCrisis]

You can get a FX6300, a 990fx motherboard and 8gb of RAM for like 280-300$. This is definitely the best way to go by FAR. LGA 775 is pointless.

[CreativeTHC]

I guess no quad from intel can handle this price.. 2nd gen at least, ...

[paulsterio]

you're obviously kidding.. I said I do have an dual core which does bottleneck with gtx 480... but thanks anyway for your interest and the time.

 

Well you were saying that you wanted to build an LGA775 system, so my response was that it would be economically silly to build an LGA775 system because the best Core 2 Duo, which is the E8600, I think, performs about the same as an Ivy Bridge Pentium chip. There are benchmarks to suggest this:

 

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/54?vs=404

 

I couldn't find one against an Ivy Pentium, but that's against a Sandy one and they're about equal, so you'll get better from an Ivy. 

 

The E8600 + LGA775 motherboard will be more expensive than the Ivy Pentium + LGA1155 motherboard. 

 

Either way, the Ivy Pentium is much more powerful than you'd expect. If you have the money though, you can go for the FX-6300, but bear in mind that that's twice the cost of the Pentium. So yeah, I wasn't saying the Pentium was the best, just that it would make much more sense than LGA775.

 

Cheers!