Help Deciding on build

ericfomley · Jan 22, 2013

Hello, I currently own and intel core I3-2105 (Sandybridge) cpu. I am looking into a gtx 660ti and was wondering if an i5 is better suited for it or if i should stick with my i3. does it make that big of a difference?

drdeathx · Jan 22, 2013

Perhaps a little. There is a bottlenect in every system.......

pdimar1 · Jan 22, 2013

maybe a tad bit more memory since you have a 64bit, and possibly an ati card or two in crossfire

tongey54 · Jan 23, 2013

660Ti will not be held back by an i3. I built a system for a friend with that card and a new Ivy Bridge i3 and performance in games was similar to my i5 2500K.

System Name	Halloween Boo!
Processor	Intel Core i7 3770K
Motherboard	Gigabyte Z77-Up7
Cooling	Custom Water/ Thermalchill TA 120.3/ Swiftech Apogeee XT/ MCP655/ Swiftech M icrores/ XSPC RX 240
Memory	16G G.Skill trident 2400MHz
Video Card(s)	3 x Radeon 7970
Storage	OCZ Revo Drive 240G
Display(s)	24 inch Viewsonic
Case	Phobia WayCoolIt Test Bench
Power Supply	Nexus 1100 watt

System Name	Fire and Ice 2013
Processor	AMD Phenom II x6 1090T BE 4.0GHz
Motherboard	ASrock 970 Extreme3
Cooling	Coolermaster V6 GT
Memory	G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB
Video Card(s)	HIS IceQ Radeon HD 7850 2GB
Storage	Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200 RPM
Display(s)	ASUS VH242H
Case	Aerocool Xpredator X3 Devil Red Edition
Audio Device(s)	None (Logitech G35)
Power Supply	Rosewill Stallion Series RD500-2DB
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

Help Deciding on build

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