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digitalcell on 13 June 2008
Soleron said:
Is 8GB of RAM necessary? You won't see any benefit above 4GB.

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Squilliam on 14 June 2008
Soleron said:
Sounds good, but I would probably get a higher-clocked dual-core versus a lower-clocked quad-core - there will be few games, even in years to come, that actually use all four cores to exceed the performance of that dual-core. You may even want to go for a budget CPU (honestly, it won't make much difference to games or work; they're all good at the moment) and get a 4870 or GTX 260 when they come out.

Is 8GB of RAM necessary? You won't see any benefit above 4GB.

It would be wise to wait for actual reviews of the 4850/4870 vs. the GTX260/280. Although, prelimenary bechmarks and prices show the 4850 CF to exceed a GTX280 for the same price, so an ATI setup will always give the best performance at a given price point.

Thats true, an AMD platform with an AM2+ motherboard will have you sorted until at least the AM3 generation. So getting a reasonable X2 and upgrading it later is quite a viable option. Otherwise you could look at that $245 deal on newegg thats a Phenom black edition + Motherboard and if you overclock that sucker to 2.8ghz easy peasy just change a number, you should have all the single/dual core speed you need. (unfortunately no Xfire) so you'd have to pick up something quick enough so that you don't need two of them. 8gb is probably overkill but if it makes you happy, why not.. its quite cheap and it very much justifies going 64bit if you want that.

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