mfenn
Elite Member
Whoa, awesome!
I completely hear you about dropping 6 gigs to 4; however I want to maintain the 6 gigs of RAM because I dabble in graphic design/3d modeling - yes, I read many thread that would suggest at least an i7 cpu, but I'm not that seriously into it (yet, anyhow) and the i3 seems good enough to handle most things (and I hear it OCs really easily). As I've crashed Illustrator due to insufficient RAM before, I think that should be my priority.
Anyhow, that is really close to the budget, I am genuinely surprised!
I aim to please!
I would say that if you're going to be doing 3d work, you would be better off with the AMD system that I put together since it is a quad core. Check out this comparison. The 530 is better at single-threaded tasks, but the 630 is better at highly-threaded tasks like rendering (check out the Cinebench, POV-Ray, and Blender benches).