The Gaming PC Building/Upgrade Thread

[Jereel Hunter]

mrstickball said:
Are there any other suggestions for highend CPUs?

I live near a Microcenter, which seems to have incredible CPU prices...The i7 750 is actually a little bit cheaper than other chips in the price range...So I am wondering if there are any slightly better chips?

For example, they also have:

Intel i7-930
Intel i7-860
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T AM3 Processor

For a similar price as the 750. Would any of those 3 be better than the 750?

I don't think the 1055T is worth it for gaming...  if you don't want to spring for a 1090, I'd go with a Phenom II X4 965 Black - I can't see any games utilizing 6 cores for quite some time, so you'd see better performance with 4 3.4ghz vs 6 2.8ghz cores. I think the 965 black is the best performance for it's price range.