[quote="Gignor]
I'm gonna be getting a Core i7 920 - benchmarks looking really sexy compared to the reasonable price. The new 1377-socket means a good deal extra spent on a X58-motherboard, and memory has to be bought in bundles of 3 instead of 2 - and has to be DDR3, bringing up the price on that quite a bit as well. As for the GPU a HD 4870 scores higher than the 260 in most apps, and is cheaper, so I'll be sticking with ATI.
I wish I could order from New Egg, everything is so much cheaper over there. Oh well.
I read a Tom's Hardware article on 4870'es, and figured the overclocked Sapphire Toxic edition fit me best, with a good, silent cooler. I've also considered Asus or HID though, but I do value a noise-free rig. Does anyone have a 4870?[/quote]
I wish I could afford to go the i7 route right now, but there are several issues with them that I'm not willing to overlook just yet. The biggest is the price of motherboards to support them. Anything worth a shit is around $300. The cost of DDR3 Ram was another concern. The price point to performance increase just isn't there for me based on my budget. The other big issue is that these are early revisions of the i7 chips. If ya wait a while you'll be able to get them in better revisions that will run cooler and are much less expensive. Not saying that a i7 is a bad chip, its awsome, just not for me atm. If I didn't have a budget, its the way I would go right now.
I also wouldn't be so sure on the 4870's. A recent review showed the card I'm getting besting the 4870. Not significantly. Even if I hadn't seen data showing better FPS in the games I play and apps I run, I would still go nVidia over ATI(AMD) anyday. I can't fucking stand the screwy Catylist drivers. Some people swear by them but I have never had good luck.
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