Motherboard & Proccessor ?

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What Motherboard & Proccessor ?

So im looking to upgrade my Motherboard & Proccessor... Wish i had alot to play with my Budgets round R2500
Looking at

-- AMD® Phenom™II X6-1055T 2.80GHz Six Core, --> +- R1650
-- MSi AMD 870A-G54--> +- R858

Anyone have better options for this ? :wtf:
 
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So you rate the
Intel Sandy Bridge i5 2500 better then the MD® Phenom™II X6-1055T ?
 
The Core architecture is very efficient, and they are *generally* rated above the AMD equivalents. BullDozer, the new AMD chips, might be a successor to Sandy Bridge, but that is just speculation. You can't go wrong with SB :)
 
Dude i5 will be faster, you just need to ask yourself if actually need to upgrade. What is your reason for upgrading because i cannot any good reason to upgrade. Sure it will be faster but for the money spent i doubt it will be worth it.

What do you use the pc for?
 
I use it for online gaming on Steam and Photoshop nw and then. Some times after effects.

I have a old AMD Athlon X2 3800+ so im sure anything is better lol
 
Which games do you play, and what graphics card do you have?

There's almost no point in upgrading the CPU to an i5 2400, when you're still stuck with like a GF 6600GT.

The new CPU, motherboard and RAM (yes, you'll also need new RAM) will most definitely make a difference in PhotoShop and AfterEffects.
 
Considering you're still on a Athlon X2 3800 either would be a big upgrade, just remember not everything takes advantage of more cores so the PhenomII X6 will end up with more idle processor time unless you're using things that love threading.

You'll probably also want a new graphics card, and will require one if that old system is still AGP, but you could try pick up one for cheap in classifieds etc.
 
For graphics card im ok for now have a
GIGABYTE® nVidia® GeForce GTX560Ti ------- will upgrade that end of the year.
Have 1 x 2GB DDR3-1333 still lying at home . Ram i can upgrade anytime tho its cheap these days


Didnt upgrade my computer for a while bought a i5 laptop last year... time to upgrade the computer now :D
 
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Honestly dude you are wasting your money with a new cpu, get a ssd rather for your work. The difference will be far superior to upgrading your cpu.

I doubt with your vga card you will get that much of an increase in gaming and i doubt you will notice the milliseconds faster it will be in photoshop. SSD however will transform photoshop depending on what you do but if you set on upgrading your computer go for the i5.

I would rather have a ssd with your current cpu and mobo than an i5 with the old slow hdd.
 
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@crashdan:
2GB DDR3 ain't gonna cut it for PhotoShop CS5.

Since you already have a very good graphics card, you would really see a big increase in your framerate with a better CPU, because I'd guess that you're currently not even using 40% of your graphics card.

I do hope that you already have Windows 7 x64 too, otherwise you'll be crippling your CPU & graphics card real power.

@killadoob:
I found the SSD to be a waste on a slow PC, where as on a fast PC (eg. new Core i5/i7) it would work like a charm!
I've previously installed my G.Skill Phoenix 120GB SSD in my laptop (Core2Duo T7200), and the performance increase wasn't that big.

Why would you say that he would benefit more from a SSD for PhotoShop rather than from a better CPU?
I would've guessed that a fast CPU, loads of RAM and a workstation graphics card would have much more of an effect on the performance than a fast storage drive.

I haven't done research in terms of PhotoShop & SSD's yet, so I would appreciate it if you can provide a link to a review/benchmarks of PhotoShop where using a SSD makes a massive difference.
 
Thanks people Im enjoying getting all the comments to help me decide carry on ;)

I will be upgrading the Ram the following month to 8GBs DDR3 believe me i no that bit and Photoshop ( Have a mac at work for that just for little things i do on the side).
Definatly windows 7 64 ! Been using that since beta.

So back to the main Part looks like im leaning towards the i5 so far...

@ sal12344 this
Intel Sandy Bridge i5 2500 1399+vat
Asus P8H67 829+vat

where can i get this for that price ?
 
Pada i work in a photoshop and corel draw and honestly the R/W speeds on the ssd just make working with large files that much faster. Those slow speeds from the normal drive slow your pc down big time. The R/W on the ssd makes things happen so much faster.

Wow a 40% increase using an i5 over his current cpu, goodness me i must go google that. If that is the case then upgrade the cpu but wow that seems a bit high but google shall reveal everything :p
 
killadoob said:
Pada i work in a photoshop and corel draw and honestly the R/W speeds on the ssd just make working with large files that much faster. Those slow speeds from the normal drive slow your pc down big time. The R/W on the ssd makes things happen so much faster.

Wow a 40% increase using an i5 over his current cpu, goodness me i must go google that. If that is the case then upgrade the cpu but wow that seems a bit high but google shall reveal everything :p
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Please share your findings
 
I don't know where sal12344 gets it at those prices, because the cheapest place that sells to the public that I know of is PCInt: http://pcint.co.za/components.php
Intel Core i5 2500 Processor - 3.30GHz, Socket 1155, 6MB L3, 2.0Gb/s DMI Interface R 1 479 excl. R 1,686 incl.
ASUS P8P67-M - 1 065 excl. R 1,214 incl.

@killadoob:
Thanks. I do agree that SSD is the way to go if you're doing PhotoShop CS5/Corel Draw X5 for your work, but it's quite an expensive investment if you're just using it as a hobby.

Where did you read that the i5 is only 40% faster than his current CPU? The only 40% that I saw was when I posted that with his current CPU he will most likely not even use 40% of his GPU.
I'd guess that the i5 CPU will be at least 800% faster in proper multi-threaded applications than his current CPU.
 
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