Originally posted by Mr-Movies:

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That is were we disagree and will continue to obviously with exception to maybe Gaming were you might get more punch for the buck, I haven't tested any gaming but I will down the road. I do know that FPS can get carried away and like Kevin said after a point it just doesn't matter, which is true. It's that old benchmark philosophy or as I like to call it bragging rights. If you can't see the difference what does it matter, the Audio world is plagued with that concept as well, when you get into the high end gear.

I'm not sure either, on the limitations of refresh rates for either cpu manufacture but would guess Intel has the advantage there, which is why I would agree with the gaming performance might be better and worthwhile paying a little extra for the Intel.

Actually I can get the FX-8150 on sale for about the same price as the 2500K, I know they normally run around $300, I haven't priced the 1100T so I'm not sure on that one but for most cases I would go with the AMD and it would be the MAC build or if I was building a gaming platform for someone, it would be the 2500K, or if they were extreme I might even talk them into spending some money and going more current. Gamer's have no problem spending tons of money on their rigs so that wouldn't be and issue.

But enough of this nonsense like I said before, since all we are doing is repeating ourselves which gets real boring!

Stevo

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Originally posted by Mr-Movies:

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You're right Russ that was what I was referring too without the link of course, thanks for the link. I sure would like to get that puppy but will have to wait until Kevin gets that temporary job and I can get a lone from him. LOL

Nice to see you're back supporting the thread your power, circuit breaker, must be holding up which is a good thing. Did you move further into Death Valley or did you move to South America Chile, the Valley of the Death? LOL

Thanks Russ,
Stevo

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Originally posted by Mr-Movies:

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I certainly would be more than willing to help you out. You should have my address so UPS it to me and I'll rebuild her for you, no problem, and no charge of course! If you don't have my address I can email it to you just let me know.

Take care,
Stevo

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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The 550Ti's not an enormous upgrade from the HD4670 really, it's a fairly basic card, but it will at least provide a bit more graphics power.

Edit: actually never mind, I'm forgetting how old the HD4670 is :P

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Crossfire doesn't technically need to be expensive, but generally speaking the cheaper setups are a waste of time because you can get a single card of equivalent performance, which will always be better, for not too much extra. The only real gains of using it are to attain levels of performance impossible with a single card at the time. My two HD6970s for example will still fairly reliably surpass a single card of the newly released top-end HD7970 or GTX680. You can never keep up the illusion that it works the same as a single card, but things have actually improved quite a lot, there's very little that causes me grief with crossfire these days, which is certainly different to when I first started using the technology 4 years ago. Having watched it mature from the HD3870s, through the HD4870X2, X2x2 QuadCF and onto my HD6970s, it is a remarkable difference. For anyone who will see benefits from having something faster than what a single card can offer, I say go for it. In the case of the GTX570 SLI, that's technically still true, but you will be running very close to the limits of the mediocre 1280MB fitted to each 570.

At 1920x1200 SLI/CF are take or leave, they can be beneficial to run the highest titles for sure, but they aren't often needed for high-end card users. 2560x1600 on the other hand, SLI/CF are almost a necessity if you're going to be playing high-end titles.

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