Squilliam on 03 February 2009
| Soleron said: Sounds good now that you're going for 4870 CF. You may be able to save money by going with a Q9650 - similar performance and CPU price, but you can use DDR2 memory which is half the price, and also the motherboard will be about $100 cheaper. |
High end CF setups do respond quite well to more CPU power, so by the next GPU gen or the one after he'd have to pull his entire motherboard to do another full upgrade again. Its less hassle if you're going high end to stick with the i7 range or the AM3 range.
Tease.
