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dahuman said:
trasharmdsister12 said:
I just bought me a 7970 for $350 with 3 games.

It should go well with my recent memory (16 GB Corsair Black Widow 1600 MHz OCd to 1711 MHz 9/9/9/24) and SSD (OCZ Vertex 3 128 GB) upgrades. I'm starting to think my 3.8 GHz i7 920 might become a limiting factor in the future.


It's still fine if you use it for gaming or media editing, I'd still argue the triple channel memory is better for a lot of the editing software out there.

I find it funny when people ask if an i7 or AMD quadcore is bottlenecking their rig. I have this rig with a 3570k and GTX 670 SLI sitting in the livingroom being used only as the Plex media server while due to comfort, lately I tend to play all my games on my bedroom media PC running an Phenom X3 and a 7770. Technically the whole rig is a bottleneck, yet if a game is good, I really don't notice or care... I beat entire DmC on a this rig and had a blast with the game.  720p + everything max 60 fps.

Otherwise if i start posting pics of all PCs I built in the last 3 years, I'd have to put a 56K warning. :)