Soleron on 05 August 2009
| Infamy79 said: Go for a Core i7 machine, they absolutely fly I'm running Vista 64 on it now and it's already lighting fast, going to put Windows 7 on it next week when I get my MSDN key for it |
He said $500 or less. I pushed it to $650 since $500 would be like a quarter of the performance, but the chepest Core i7 system without skimping on the video card is $1200+. And realistically if you're going to spend $150 more on the CPU that money would be better spent on graphics for a gaming PC.
Source for typical builds: http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/17102/6 and http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=3610&p=7
