movie playback are taxing the CPU horsepower not GPU. Pentium G850 can play your movies well.

*ps* with proper codec, even older Intel Atom can play 720p movies.

indeed, LYP everyday PC Fair, while KLCC PC fair much more like laptop and broadband fair.

- better component = better lifespan and durability (better OC as well)
- more and better features (X-Fi chip, better LAN chip, N-way SLI/XFire, USB ports... etc)
- better layout (you'll appreciate it when you managing the cables)
- eye candy design (striking colours, cool looking heatsinks some even support watercooling)

although mobo doesn't directly contributes to the performance, but indirectly it does make some difference, especially for those OCers.

best choice would be getting the mid-range boards where the performance to price ratio is at the sweet spot. but for those who got the money to burn of course they choose to get the more expensive option.

no problem for day to day usage. nothing's wrong with that since you already using it.

My father asked me to build a home PC for him, some office document work, movies, music. So here's my build but I need some suggestion from you guys.

budget RM1800 to RM1900, MAX RM2000 (prefer use less a bit la...)

prices taken from idealTech as I'm planning to buy from him.

Intel i3-3220 - RM368
Asrock B75M R2.0 - RM209
4GB value RAM - RM70
WD Blue 1TB - RM229
FSP Hexa 500W - RM150+-
LiteOn DVD-ROM - RM70+-
kb/mouse combo - RM50

current - RM1146

need suggestion:

Case - Antec One / 200R / Shinobi / K280 / others?

Monitor - LG IPS-224T / others? (around RM400 monitorn can oledi)

Speaker - ?? (2.0 or 2.1 system)

thanks guys

This post has been edited by JohnDiew0107: Dec 29 2012, 12:28 PM

RM1600

3x U2312HM ?

or

2x U2412M ?

no point changing the chassis in order to get a few degree Celsius drop in temp. for example, you spend RM300 just to drop 5C, that's RM60 per degree... what for?

btw, your 7950OC temp is quite normal, wait you see my friend's GTX480 - 94C

For PSU, any reason you wan't to change?

that one full load...

lol if idle 94C gg?

maybe the HDD haven't initiate..

you can go to Disk Management to initiate and create a volume for the HDD.

simple instructions - http://www.ehow.com/how_4918155_initialize...hard-drive.html

or you can google / youtube how to initiate a hdd.

follow suggestion by Clem1982.

All that changes, I'm sure monitor you can take Dell U2312HM

almost same price, but better go for blue as green tend to be slow as it is advertised to save energy.

Intel has better response in terms of RMA issue.

I thought multi-monitor would be cheaper if calculate like this

1x U2711HM around RM1800, single large desktop

3x U2312HM around RM1800, more desktop asset

I see, for gaming, that really costs a lot on the GPU..

but if for work setup, we just need a cheap eyefinity card like 6450, 6570 already good enough is it?

understandable, I'm running 2 monitors using i5's HD2500 and I'm really happy with the increase of work efficiency. Though I don't game a lot..

1. Different architecture used by 2 different companies.. the benchmarks and real life performance difference easily differentiate their grounds. Maybe you can read up some articles about the Intel Ivy Bridge and AMD Piledriver

2. 3570K has unlocked multiplier for overclocking however your choice of motherboard is not supporting advanced overclocking that defeats the purpose of getting K labelled processors. Stepping down to 3570, compared with 3470, that extra 0.2GHz won't have much difference in real life performance.

3. Yes, graphics card is the power horse in gaming, instead of CPU, you should get a GPU to increase the frame rate of your games for smooth high quality graphics.

based on my experience on
- Creative x-fi xtrememusic
- Creative x-fi titanium (non-HD)
- Asus xonar u1
- Asus xonar dx

I personally prefer the sound produced by creative cards but dealing with Creative driver is killing me..

while the DX is quite good for that price which is cheaper than the titanium IINM

nevertheless, you do need to have a set of good speaker to fully enjoy the sound magic