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System Name | Veral |
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Processor | 5950x |
Motherboard | MSI MEG x570 Ace |
Cooling | Corsair H150i RGB Elite |
Memory | 4x16GB G.Skill TridentZ |
Video Card(s) | Powercolor 7900XTX Red Devil |
Storage | Crucial P5 Plus 1TB, Samsung 980 1TB, Teamgroup MP34 4TB |
Display(s) | Acer Nitro XZ342CK Pbmiiphx + 2x AOC 2425W |
Case | Fractal Design Meshify Lite 2 |
Audio Device(s) | Blue Yeti + SteelSeries Arctis 5 / Samsung HW-T550 |
Power Supply | Corsair HX850 |
Mouse | Corsair Nightsword |
Keyboard | Corsair K55 |
VR HMD | HP Reverb G2 |
Software | Windows 11 Professional |
Benchmark Scores | PEBCAK |
So a friend of mine is trying to get a motherboard/CPU combo on a budget. I was looking at the MSI H81M-P33 for the board and an i3 for the CPU, but as my friend plays a CPU-heavy game. (Old, horrid graphics engine, feeds on clocks but not cores) and has up to 5 browser tabs open with Skype calls going on. I was thinking an i3 wouldn't be enough.
She used to have an FX-6100 but that and the board died with the thermal fail-safe failed to go off and fried everything. Was going to go with a FX-6300 and some 970-chipset board (I used to use the same CPU with a ASUS 970 chipset but board failed. M5A97 R2.0) but I'm thinking that it might be a tad overkill as a FX-6XXX wouldn't be fully used.
No overclocking.
Everything else she already has. (GPU, PSU, case, memory. Blahblah)
Cooling is going to run with a Hyper 212 EVO.
Budget at $250.
She used to have an FX-6100 but that and the board died with the thermal fail-safe failed to go off and fried everything. Was going to go with a FX-6300 and some 970-chipset board (I used to use the same CPU with a ASUS 970 chipset but board failed. M5A97 R2.0) but I'm thinking that it might be a tad overkill as a FX-6XXX wouldn't be fully used.
No overclocking.
Everything else she already has. (GPU, PSU, case, memory. Blahblah)
Cooling is going to run with a Hyper 212 EVO.
Budget at $250.