Slimebeast said:
Squilliam said:
Soleron said:
I'm very confused now. You say you don't want to spend a lot more money for a little more performance, but then you want an "uber" CPU? Which is it? You can get 80% of the performance of the uber for about 33% of the price, OR you can build the best system ever.
For good value and max settings in all non-Crysis current games at your monitor resolution, a Phenom II X4 920 / Radeon HD4870 / 4GB DDR2 is probably the best choice.
For a no-limit uber system, the Core i7 965 / 2x GTX295 / 6GB DDR3 is the best system. That will give you about a 20% boost over the system above at about three times the price.
@Squillam: The GTX285 is not a good choice. For the vast majority of games, the HD4850 X2 is faster at a similar price. |
A Phenom isn't that much cheaper than the Core I7 once you factor everything in.
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This is awkward coming from you Squill. Do u have a cost example showing the difference between a Phenom platform vs Core i7?
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I saw somewhere, but I forgot where! 
Phenom 940 platform $1150, Core I7 platform $1350 is what I saw.
On that site the CPUs cost the same the difference really is in the motherboard and ram (which has come down in price a lot) and TBH the ability to run both SLI and Crossfire in a high end platform is something which should be valued.
