| NJ5 said: Have you considered AMD? A good AM3-socket motherboard costs about half of an i7-compatible motherboard, and you can get a 6-core CPU for $200 (though I admit it might be slightly worse in some games which are optimized for less cores, but you'll be more future proof and in any case most games aren't limited by the CPU but by the GPU instead). So in all you may save $200 on that. If you are set on Intel then it doesn't look bad. Just a small note that you will just lose 1-5% of the performance for not having 3 memory sticks to take advantage of the i7's triple-channel. But that's something you can easily fix later on if/when you get an additional 2 GB of memory. |
Yeah, I plan to add more later, just that fits within my budget and more than I need at the moment.
