by McMokka » 11 Nov 2015 00:13
Yeah, searching around can safe you serious money, even if you are affraid to buy used stuff.
I got lucky for example buying my 4790k on ebay. It was new and I got it for 290 Euro - 10 Euro voucher from ebay, so 280. If you buy it on normal sites you have to pay 340-350€. so yeah. Not trying to say you should buy everything on ebay cause it could take forever to get all the pieces you want. But look around, it safed me 60€ on the cpu only.
As for the recommendations:
i5 from the recent or last 2 generations (i5 3xxx- 5xxx)
For the GPU: The gap between nVidia and AMD is not that big compared to intel vs AMD. In fact in the middle-price segment they are quite comparable. If you go for Nvidia the TI-models often have the better power/money ratio compared to the "normal model".
As soon as you decide for a model, take your time to compare the versions of the different companies (MSI, Gigabyte, etc). There are quite a few websites which make it easy to compare, just make sure that you check different websites, since they are biased sometimes.
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