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Advice on first PC build

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  • #2
    Serephucus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,181 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    Motherboard only has six SATA ports, plus the two from the PCI adapter, that leaves you short one.


  • #3
    jc84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭jc84


    Serephucus wrote: »
    Motherboard only has six SATA ports, plus the two from the PCI adapter, that leaves you short one.

    meant to put down I have 2 expansion cards


  • #4
    Jonny7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7


    Something like the i5 2500k is better in almost every respect

    Comparison -
    http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=203


  • #5
    jc84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭jc84


    Jonny7 wrote: »
    Something like the i5 2500k is better in almost every respect

    Comparison -
    http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=203

    Saw both alright and thought the 6 core would have the edge over quad core, didn't do the comparison test though, the intel i5 is cheaper so might change


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