i7 3820 for 2017?

[Guest]

So I've been looking at building a new pc, and I was pretty much set on a £600 ITX i5-6400 RX 470 build, but I saw a used i7 3820 for £70, did some research and found it was slightly more powerful. Would it be worth it, considering the exorbitant prices for LGA2011 mobos and the lack of a real upgrade path.

[BelgiumCastGijs]

I personally would het the i5, it's more effecient and will leave more budget for gpu and other parts

[Aereldor]

20 minutes ago, BelgiumCastGijs said:

I personally would het the i5, it's more effecient and will leave more budget for gpu and other parts

No, it wouldn't. He's getting a 3770 for half the price, and a used LGA1155 motherboard will be cheaper than a new LGA1151 motherboard. He'll be able to spend more on the GPU if he gets the used chip.

 

However, that comes with all the risks of buying used hardware.

[Guest]

3 hours ago, BelgiumCastGijs said:

I personally would het the i5, it's more effecient and will leave more budget for gpu and other parts

The cheapest I can get the i5 for new is £152 or so from Play-Asia.com- is that a trustworthy site because the prices are all £20 lower or more and it seems to good to be true

2 hours ago, Aereldor said:

No, it wouldn't. He's getting a 3770 for half the price, and a used LGA1155 motherboard will be cheaper than a new LGA1151 motherboard. He'll be able to spend more on the GPU if he gets the used chip.

 

However, that comes with all the risks of buying used hardware.

It's a 3820 and it uses socket r, with the cheapest mobos I can find being over 150

[Aereldor]

2 minutes ago, Ethan Meskin said:

It's a 3820 and it uses socket r, with the cheapest mobos I can find being over 150

Even better. Your title initially said '3870', so I thought you meant '3770'.

If that's how expensive motherboards are, then you aren't saving anything.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Aereldor said:

Even better. Your title initially said '3870', so I thought you meant '3770'.

If that's how expensive motherboards are, then you aren't saving anything.

Oops sorry I'll edit the title I'm stupid

[Aereldor]

1 minute ago, Ethan Meskin said:

Oops sorry I'll edit the title I'm stupid

I thought you already did. Maybe I misread.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Aereldor said:

Even better. Your title initially said '3870', so I thought you meant '3770'.

If that's how expensive motherboards are, then you aren't saving anything.

There are 2 on eBay for 70-80 but both have issues, one isn't tested and the other has bent socket pins.

[Aereldor]

31 minutes ago, Ethan Meskin said:

£600 ITX i5-6400 RX 470

If you give up on mini-ITX, you can get this for 640. It has a better CPU and the best RX 480 on the market.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£189.59 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£39.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£42.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Toshiba 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£35.94 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 480 8GB GTR Video Card  (£259.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Zalman ZM-T3 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£23.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£48.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Total: £641.47
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-14 12:35 GMT+0000

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Aereldor said:

If you give up on mini-ITX, you can get this for 640. It has a better CPU and the best RX 480 on the market.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£189.59 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£39.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£42.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Toshiba 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£35.94 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 480 8GB GTR Video Card  (£259.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Zalman ZM-T3 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£23.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£48.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Total: £641.47
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-14 12:35 GMT+0000

600 was about my threshold so if I didn't have enough I was gonna drop the ITX anyway, but if I can get extra money I'll get the 480 over the 470 and if I get even more I'll choose the 6500. The ITX build was closer to 570 but I added leeway for price going up or an external optical drive bcus I cannot be bothered to move all my disk files to usb

[Aereldor]

6 minutes ago, Ethan Meskin said:

600 was about my threshold so if I didn't have enough I was gonna drop the ITX anyway, but if I can get extra money I'll get the 480 over the 470 and if I get even more I'll choose the 6500. The ITX build was closer to 570 but I added leeway for price going up or an external optical drive bcus I cannot be bothered to move all my disk files to usb

You can still easily get a 480, just not that one-

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£189.59 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£39.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£42.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Toshiba 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£35.94 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 480 4GB RS Video Card  (£204.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Case: Zalman ZM-T3 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£23.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£48.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Total: £586.47
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-14 12:47 GMT+0000

 

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Aereldor said:

You can still easily get a 480, just not that one-

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£189.59 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£39.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£42.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Toshiba 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£35.94 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 480 4GB RS Video Card  (£204.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Case: Zalman ZM-T3 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£23.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£48.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Total: £586.47
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-14 12:47 GMT+0000

 

I can't wait at all for this build. Currently I have no gaming platform other that a i3 4500U with HD graphics 4400 and I am itching to play with more than 20fps on anything newer or harder to run than tf2 

 

I'm relying on allowance and birthday money here, can you think of any way to sell old computer parts for decent money? It would enable me to get it sooner or at all in the next year.

[othertomperson]

Motherboards is the issue. Getting your hands on a cheap LGA 2011 motherboard is harder than finding a cheap 3960X.