Hi all,
Starting out a new build for around $500.
This will be used primarily for gaming.
My monitor resolution is 1920x1080
Also, I live in Aus.
Thanks!
Here is a pair of builds from a week ago or so, not all the items are available in Aus so you'll have to subsistute.
Trinity advantages: Much better all purpose CPU, low power requirements, very overclockable (both CPU and IGP), later addition of discrete graphics card can allow for greater overclocking of CPU (overhead from disabled IGP)
Trinity pitfalls: While IGP is very capable, will underperform most more expensive discrete graphics solutions, CPU upgrades will be locked to FM2 socket which at the moment has no higher end chips (though AMD plans to continue using the socket unlike FM1)
Pentium Build advantages: HD 7770 will outperform Trinity's IGP by a reasonable margin, LGA 1155 socket allows CPU upgrade all the way to ivy bridge i7
Pentium Build pitfalls: Overclocking is nearly non-existant on CPU, minimal on HD 7770, CPU will perform much slower than Trinity in most applications (pretty much in all if Trinity is overclocked), any future upgrade will require some previous hardware to be discarded
Sorry, not gonna take the time to tune those builds to Aus pricing, those components were picked based on their US prices.