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Digibus
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23. November 2009 @ 14:29 |
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Digibus
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23. November 2009 @ 14:41 |
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23. November 2009 @ 22:30 |
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24. November 2009 @ 00:26 |
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27. November 2009 @ 08:13 |
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Avoid unreliable Asus boards and dangerously low quality Kingwin PSUs. The rest of it looks fine, but you really should try and stretch to an Intel core i5 instead, it's a vast improvement in performance.
Killerbug: For future reference, both Caviar Blue and Black drives are 7200rpm.
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Digibus
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27. November 2009 @ 14:33 |
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Thanks for the suggestions guys. It looks like if I juggle things around a bit and get some combo deals I will be able to afford to go with an Intel CPU and stay very close to making my budget. Plus like mentioned before by the time I build this thing prices and availability will most certainly change, I could even be able to go with a i7 920 build.
Would I be better off with going i5 750 with a 5870 or i7 920 with a 5850?
Do you think the new Nvidia GPUs will be out in the next couple months or is it all still just rumor.
Thanks again.....
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27. November 2009 @ 16:14 |
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Originally posted by Digibus:
Would I be better off with going i5 750 with a 5870 or i7 920 with a 5850?
For a gaming system, I would recommend you stay with the UD3R/750 combo. My expertise is not with GPUs so I will leave those comments to others.
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27. November 2009 @ 18:06 |
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Stick with the i5, it's actually better for games than the i7.
The new nvidia cards will probably not be out until february/march time. They may well be very good, but they WILL be overpriced.
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Digibus
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27. November 2009 @ 23:28 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Stick with the i5, it's actually better for games than the i7.
The new nvidia cards will probably not be out until february/march time. They may well be very good, but they WILL be overpriced.
Thanks, I think I just about have an i5 build all figured out, about $150 more than my budget, but if I stick with it for a couple months hopefully it will be right at budget after rebates and such. I'll post it up once it's sorted.
I mainly just want the new cards to come out before my build as the prices of others will prob go down a bit.
Oh and I picked up two WDC 640G HDDs for $100 yesterday!
And yes they were the caviar blacks BTW :)
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Xplorer4
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28. November 2009 @ 04:13 |
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I suggest checking back in a few months to see whats what then. We may be able to squeeze in a bit more performance for the budget. Also check out newegg right now if you have a good portion of the money as there running some great deals, notably on SSDs.
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28. November 2009 @ 06:11 |
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What will at least hopefully have happened by January is the 40nm GPU yields be rectified, so there will be good stock of the HD5800 series, thus lower prices.
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28. November 2009 @ 06:18 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
What will at least hopefully have happened by January is the 40nm GPU yields be rectified, so there will be good stock of the HD5800 series, thus lower prices.
Plus, the 5900 series will be readily available...so the 5800 series will no longer be the overpriced "high end".
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28. November 2009 @ 06:21 |
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Here's hoping... I think "Q1" is going to be my upgrade time, rather than straight after christmas. The Lucid Hydra pushback coupled with the claimed corrected yields of TSMC's 40nm production was almost enough to make me wait. Now hearing there's a new lower-TDP stepping of the i5 750, that seals the deal for me.
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EricCarr
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28. November 2009 @ 07:04 |
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28. November 2009 @ 07:15 |
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Um, the X2 550 is not a quad. The clue is in the title.
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