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Solve : Motherboard upgrade with 8GB FREE Crucial RAM I bought? |
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Answer» I was looking around to see what deals are offered this holiday weekend and 1 deal was too good to pass up. Bought myself a more modern motherboard to swap my CPU into and it came with a free stick of 8GB CRUCIAL DDR3 RAM. ....A variation of geometric expansion theory says - you can not wait that long.That's the same motherboard that I'm going with I don't need the RAM stick THOUGH, as I already have GSkill Sniper Gaming Series 16GB 1866 DDR3 for it Quote That's the same motherboard that I'm going with COOL! I actually was looking into a Gigabyte motherboard... this one here before going with the Biostar bundle deal: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128504 Getting that free 8GB of RAM + it supporting the AMD FX-8350 4Ghz 8-core that I have been eyeballing for the last 6 months and the price tag of $72 after shipping added was the selling POINT to stick with Biostar. And I have bought their brand of boards for the last 7 years with no problems in quality. I was originally looking at this Gigabyte brand motherboard and having to buy 8GB RAM and a price tag around $120, even though I wanted 16GB RAM but didnt want to pay around $150 on tight budget with my wife to be out of work for this summer and just living off of 1 salary since she works for school system so summers get tight with her not working. I was also looking at skimping through an upgrade and using 2x 1GB DDR3 1333 sticks that I had from an upgrade to 4GB on another system that are laying around unused to get this Gigabyte AM3+ motherboard with the rebate for $47 and buy the RAM on another deal at some point to get a single 8GB stick or 2 sticks for 16GB RAM, then waiting for a good deal on a more powerful than Athlon II x4 620 AM3 CPU and this Gigabyte brand motherboard maxes out on the AMD FX-8300 3.3Ghz, and I want the 4Ghz /4.2Ghz Turbo 8-core Piledriver CPU. Attached is comparisons between the CPU I have now and the one I want to upgrade to. I cant justify paying the the price tag of the Intel Core i7's, and this is the best bang for my buck, plus it should be plenty of CPU for the next 4 or 5 years, since I have been upgrading CPUs once every 4 years lately. The Athlon II x4 620 quadcore is still plenty of CPU to throw games at it to crunch, but I feel its time for a newer build to be my newest gaming rig build. I could probably get 2 or 3 more years of gaming out of it before it starts to become listed as minimum system requirements for intense games. I will likely have to replace my video card before then..LOL I have been impressed with the performance/pricetag comparison since my AMD Athlon XP 2800+ which i USED from 2003 to 2008 when the original compaq motherboard started acting up and it wasnt PSU, RAM, CPU, or Video Card. AMD's have for the last 10 years been the better buy to have performance and not have to pay steep price tags for it such as Intel has almost always been more expensive. I bought a few Intel Pentium E5400's on a good deal for 2 builds, but find my way back to AMD. I also have switched to AMD for my videocards vs GeForce because they also have been the better deal than GeForce for equal or greater performance at a cheaper cost to customer. [recovering disk space, attachment deleted by admin] |
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