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wkchu
post Jul 19 2016, 01:17 PM

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Need some advice.

My Core 2 Quad Asus P5Q3 with Radeon HD4850 died recently. I need to get replacement motherboard and cpu.
My usage are Handbrake re-encoding, MKV remuxing, moving mkv files across hard disks.
I have lots of SATA disks and a SSD lying around. Would prefer 6 or more onboard SATA.
Would be nice to have ESata as I have one USB2/ESATA Hotway RAID box.

I have been looking at either a cheap AMD direction of A88X mobo with an A8/10 APU.
Or i3/i5 solution with onboard Intel video.

What are the current popular games these type of onboard video can play? ( 720p good enough)
And what games are definitely not even worth an attempt with these onboard video?

And what budget graphic card upgrade would be worth putting in?

Has anybody personally compare between AMD and Intel? Is there noticeable performance differences on daily usages.

Hardware that can be reused:
Kingston SSD 240G
WD 2TB x 6
PSU Silverstone 500W or Aerocool VP750
RAM 2x 2GB Corsair DDR3

Any input or opinions are welcome.

This post has been edited by wkchu: Jul 19 2016, 03:06 PM
wkchu
post Jul 19 2016, 03:55 PM

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QUOTE(terence_nwb @ Jul 19 2016, 03:18 PM)
Intel 6th gen Skylake iGPU HD 530 can run Dota 2 at medium settings 1080p at average 50 FPS, so 720p should be fairly easy to get 60 FPS, onboard iGPU is not meant for gaming anyway, casual is fine, definitely not those graphically demanding games like most of the triple A titles released recently.

If no gaming then you can use back your current HD4850 (if still alive) or the onboard iGPU. If light gaming, then you can consider getting a GTX750Ti (below RM 500 now).

What's your budget for the CPU and mobo?
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I see Acer Aspire AXC710 Desktop (Core i5-6400) retails at RM2099.
So I would prefer not to spend over 2K.

What are the current triple A titles?

I used to like playing FPS games like CoD. Can the GTX750Ti handle the current crop of FPS games at 720p?

What's the main differences between the B150, H170, and Z170?
I would prefer an ATX size mobo that can add in cards to support future standards like USB 3.1 / Thunderbolt.
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post Jul 19 2016, 04:41 PM

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QUOTE(terence_nwb @ Jul 19 2016, 04:26 PM)
If you don't understand what I meant by "triple A titles" then it actually means those high quality games from big/highly budgeted developers with their games priced at 60 USD normally. Some example of the recently released triple A titles are Doom 2016, Mirror Edge: Catalyst, Overwatch etc, upcoming one are Battlefield 1, Mafia 3, COD: Infinite Warfare etc.

GTX750Ti is a low end card, but is the top notch low end card, or in another word, "highest end" low end card below RM 500, you should be able to run latest games at low/medium settings with GTX750Ti at 720p, though it is subject to many factors like games optimizations, resources needed etc, nobody can guarantee it will work nicely with all the games.

B150, H170, Z170 and also the missing H110 are the consumer grade chipset of Skylake platform.

H110 - lowest end, provides basic features that are needed to run a PC at lowest cost, suitable for low budget PC.

B150 - mid end, provides some extra features that are not found in H110 chipset such as extra 2 RAM slots (max 4), more USB 3.0 and SATA ports etc.

H170 - highest end (without CPU and RAM overclocking support), provides RAID support, better PCH PCIe configuration support etc.

Z170 - highest end (with CPU and RAM overclocking support), with multi-GPU support (SLI/CF) etc.

I suggest you to get new CPU + mobo + RAM (DDR4) + GPU with your 2k budget and reuse the rest of the components, this yields a better price/performance ratio than getting a new prebuilt OEM PC.

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 835
Gigabyte H170-HD3 - RM 446
Corsair 16GB (8GB x 2) DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 250
Zotac GTX750Ti 2GB GDDR5 Single Fan - RM 470

Total: RM 2011 (ETech price inclusive of GST)
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Thanks for the breakdown on the chipset.
You really know your stuff.

Your suggestion sounds good to me. I'm really not into overclocking, really hate the reboot times when system is unstable.

Do you work at ETech? Does it do online sales as in merchant on Lelong, Lazada, GEMFive or others?
wkchu
post Jul 21 2016, 11:43 AM

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QUOTE(terence_nwb @ Jul 19 2016, 04:26 PM)

I suggest you to get new CPU + mobo + RAM (DDR4) + GPU with your 2k budget and reuse the rest of the components, this yields a better price/performance ratio than getting a new prebuilt OEM PC.

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 835
Gigabyte H170-HD3 - RM 446
Corsair 16GB (8GB x 2) DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 250
Zotac GTX750Ti 2GB GDDR5 Single Fan - RM 470

Total: RM 2011 (ETech price inclusive of GST)
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There seems to be shortage of stock on the Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133Mhz ValueSelect RAM.

Do you have any opinion on the Kingston Value RAM 16GB DDR4 2133Mhz KVR21N15D8/16?

I am thinking of using the Gigabyte H170-D3HP which has USB3.1 type C.

Will it matters if I use 1 piece of 16GB or 2 pieces of 16GB. Any stability issues with 2 pieces?
Any performance hits if just use a single piece?
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