I am sure you probably get this from time to time, but I am looking for a nice system to game on for a moderate price.
I work at a small computer repair shop and they are very bias against AMD. I also cannot really afford to buy hardware to test out and would prefer to try it out myself as opposed to reading reviews, but you guys here seem like you would know what I would like to know.
I know AMD is cheaper than intel and the qualm that my coworkers have with AMD is they run too hot and are just not as "fast" as their intel counterparts.
They also generally dislike ASUS products, though the little experience I've had with ASUS has generally been a good one. They say ASUS motherboards are notorious for blowing caps and I believe they do have some stock in their claims since they both have worked at this place for 15 years and both, from my perspective, seem to know an awful lot.
Just on a side note, 99 percent of the computers we work on are brands, i.e. HP, Dell, etc. So I have noticed some things, not really CPU wise, but chipset wise, which is that ATI and Nvidia chipsets of older computers often overheat and need reballed.
With that being said, I was hoping maybe someone could shine some light as to what hardware I could get that is at a median of price and quality and just to hear some of your experiences with AMD cpus. I am not really looking for something really high end. I have thought that maybe getting a refurbished i5 off of geeks.com and perhaps just upgrading the HDD to an SSD and getting a decent video card. Which leads me to another question. the Geforce GTX series vs AMD Radeon and what would be a good choice that meets lower price and quality.
I work at a small computer repair shop and they are very bias against AMD. I also cannot really afford to buy hardware to test out and would prefer to try it out myself as opposed to reading reviews, but you guys here seem like you would know what I would like to know.
I know AMD is cheaper than intel and the qualm that my coworkers have with AMD is they run too hot and are just not as "fast" as their intel counterparts.
They also generally dislike ASUS products, though the little experience I've had with ASUS has generally been a good one. They say ASUS motherboards are notorious for blowing caps and I believe they do have some stock in their claims since they both have worked at this place for 15 years and both, from my perspective, seem to know an awful lot.
Just on a side note, 99 percent of the computers we work on are brands, i.e. HP, Dell, etc. So I have noticed some things, not really CPU wise, but chipset wise, which is that ATI and Nvidia chipsets of older computers often overheat and need reballed.
With that being said, I was hoping maybe someone could shine some light as to what hardware I could get that is at a median of price and quality and just to hear some of your experiences with AMD cpus. I am not really looking for something really high end. I have thought that maybe getting a refurbished i5 off of geeks.com and perhaps just upgrading the HDD to an SSD and getting a decent video card. Which leads me to another question. the Geforce GTX series vs AMD Radeon and what would be a good choice that meets lower price and quality.
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