A friend of mine wants to build an intel PC, or rather wants to build a very powerful PC for under $1500 he doesnt know if he should go intel or AMD, basically whichever will be the better more powerful build.
Which I expect to be the Intel build. Now I know what to look for in terms of an AMD build, amd CPU's are pretty straight forward. Now once you have the CPU, you can narrow your motherboard results down pretty good. Most DDR3 RAM now a days seems like its very good quality (the mainstream brands anyways) and I know intel's benefit more so from higher frequency's as opposed to tight timings.
I know what HDD, and SSD's to look for, PSU is pretty straight forward, modular, verify the connections and that it will be able to power everything and look for 80+ silver or better.
Graphics card is kind of up in the air right now, again I am an AMD fanboy I guess so I know MUCH more about the ATI cards than I do nVidia. So I'd probably have him go 6970 or 6950 (or 6970) depending on how much money is left in the budget. What are the comparable nVidia cards to that? The gtx 570? The 590 is a dual GPU card I think?
Thanks.
PS, I know this is kind of a long post, but basically I'd like to know what to pick as a intel CPU, and why. Sandy bridge, or not? i5 or i7? What to look for in terms of motherboard chipset's, and memory controllers? also what nVidia card would be comparable to the ATI ones listed.
Which I expect to be the Intel build. Now I know what to look for in terms of an AMD build, amd CPU's are pretty straight forward. Now once you have the CPU, you can narrow your motherboard results down pretty good. Most DDR3 RAM now a days seems like its very good quality (the mainstream brands anyways) and I know intel's benefit more so from higher frequency's as opposed to tight timings.
I know what HDD, and SSD's to look for, PSU is pretty straight forward, modular, verify the connections and that it will be able to power everything and look for 80+ silver or better.
Graphics card is kind of up in the air right now, again I am an AMD fanboy I guess so I know MUCH more about the ATI cards than I do nVidia. So I'd probably have him go 6970 or 6950 (or 6970) depending on how much money is left in the budget. What are the comparable nVidia cards to that? The gtx 570? The 590 is a dual GPU card I think?
Thanks.
PS, I know this is kind of a long post, but basically I'd like to know what to pick as a intel CPU, and why. Sandy bridge, or not? i5 or i7? What to look for in terms of motherboard chipset's, and memory controllers? also what nVidia card would be comparable to the ATI ones listed.