Originally posted by sammorris:

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The Antec is undeniably a nice case, but is more than double the original $50 request, though admittedly it includes a decent PSU which will save money.

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Originally posted by omegaman7:

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Hey russ, Whats your personal thoughts on corsair? Ive been pretty kingston/crucial bound for most of my computer History. Though Im running Gskill right now. :D It was a good buy. And as ive said. I like to give new manufacturers the benefit of the doubt. And often ive got money to play with.

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Originally posted by omegaman7:

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Wow man, Theres alot more to buying ram than meets the eye. You just gave me something to REALLY think about. THANK YOU! :D

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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A long way. A 3Ghz Core 2 Quad is vaguely equivalent to four 7.5Ghz P4s.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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A Black Edition CPU will be no less affected by overclocking, and overclocking itself doesn't affect the life of a CPU, only changing the voltage. You can still overclock a CPU to a lesser extent without changing the voltage at all, and this will have no impact on the life of it at all. Even if you do need to up the voltage, keep it sensible and you still won't see the CPU's lifetime drop below 10 years.
Overall for that X2 7750 it works out equal to between a 2.1 and 2.6Ghz Core 2 Duo at stock in arithmetic benchmarks, ad a 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo in games (excluding Far Cry 2 and Quake Wars at low settings, where it is 2.8 and 2.6 respectively).
Power consumption wise, on a 22 hour idle, 2 hour load schedule the 2 7750 will cost an extra $30 a year over a 2.5Ghz Core 2 Duo. On a 12 hour idle, 12 hour load schedule the 7750 will cost an extra $65 a year, nearly the cost of the CPU itself. Since the E5200 only costs $4 more than the 7750, and has an overclocking threshold of at least 3.5Ghz versus the AMD's 3.3, the 7750 has still fallen short in a lot of regards. However, at stock speeds for arithmetic tests, the 7750 is slightly ahead of its competitor.
It's worth pointing out that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 costs only an extra $10 a year to run on the 12/12 cycle as the X2 7750. That shows you just how much power the AMD chip uses. On top of this, to get to 3.3Ghz (22%) requires 1.4V, a 150-200mV increase, which will up the power vastly.

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