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  gaming? i5 video encoding & gaming? i7 done. : pancake humper
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    the only encoding i'd be doing is for my iphone really : xxiv
    • i5 : pancake humper
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    ^ This. You could also go the Phenom X4/X6 route (once the X6 is out later this month) if you don't h... : ateam311
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      i don't know jack about amd these days. i assume they're comparable in price and performance? : xxiv
      • The Phenom X4 955/965 are great CPUs and very comparable to the i5. They're a little more affordable as w... : ateam311
      • In price they are. Performance isn't quite up there, but they're still competitive. When you can get an ... : PointlesS76
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        It's the typical tradeoff of price vs performance. The i5/i7 lineup will still beat out the AMD offerings... : ieGod
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          Yeah, this is pretty much the truth. Don't take it to mean that the i5 completely shuts down the X4, but ... : ateam311
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            dunno about the overclocking performance on the X4 chips, but my i7-860 overclocks like a champ! Got it... : Shadowdane
            • Well yeah, I hope the 1090T can compete with the i7-860, but I doubt it will end up OCing as well. : one random winner
            • I'm running my Phenom II x4 at 3.8Ghz from it's stock of 3.0 and it was easily done. I could pbly go furt... : Mr. Goodwrench
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      I picked up a Phenom X4 965 black + Gigabyte mobo combo from Frys for $165 last week. Too good to pass up... : yosemiteclimber
      • That's a pretty sweet deal. : one random winner
      • Fry's has been insane with their combos lately. I got an i5 750 + gigabyte board for $225 2 week ago. : sigpro
      • Wasn't that mobo an AM2+? : ateam311
• That should really be Sockets 1156 or 1366 : Shadowdane
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  also, what was the ati card everyone was loving for the price point? 350 bucks is kind of up there. : xxiv
  • 5770 : Vanitas
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    5850 and oc it to 5870 speeds : pancake humper
    • I wasn't able to overclock mine all that much :-/ Although I didn't move the voltage which I understand ... : lolpatrol
  • 5770 seems to be getting everyone wet these days : yosemiteclimber
  • 5770 brah. I've got one, love it to bits. Got over 100mhz overclock on the GPU lol. I've got an Asus Vapo... : moe6
  • 5850 if you can afford it, otherwise a 5770 and you OC the ever loving shit out of it. : one random winner
  • 5770 if you're going bang-for-the-buck : theylookwolfs
  • 5770 if you're going bang-for-the-buck : theylookwolfs
  • a used 4870 if you want to keep the price low, I got mine for under a hundred bucks on ebay. : stgdz
  • 5850 : Link.
  • Rage 3D : ninjase
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  Keep in mind that Intel is replacing the i7 with a new socket in 2011. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardw... : denixen
  • that's fine, i usually go 3 years or so and then just start from scratch. : xxiv
• I say i7. Get the 860 if not the 9X0 series : biofrog
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  I use and i7 860 with a 4870, I haven't run into a slow down with BFbc2 yet, I am one step below 1920 on ... : stgdz
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    You should bump it up to 1920 if you have the monitor to support it. I have that same machine (8 gb of ra... : pancake humper
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      My HP ZR24 1920x1200 should be arriving this week and I was hoping that my 4890 would be good enough to r... : Mr. Goodwrench
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        Did you get that monitor from Costrcentral? : pancake humper
        • No I live in the UK. I was waiting for Overclockers.co.uk to get them in stock but that couldn't say when... : Mr. Goodwrench
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      I believe I tried it at one time as my monitor supports 1920 but I got a black screen, I think it had to ... : stgdz
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        Is this with a CRT monitor? : Mr. Goodwrench
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          no its an lcd, so it should work. I will give it a try tonight though. : stgdz
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            If it's an LCD and you can set 1920x1200 shouldn't that be your native res? Usually at that res the refre... : Mr. Goodwrench
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              IIRC sometimes ATI cards would auto-set the refresh rate to 59hz instead of 60 for some reason and it doe... : one random winner
              • Yeah mine does this. It never caused any issues but it was frustrating the way it kept doing it. I had to... : Mr. Goodwrench
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  the list. thanks shack, here's what i've got so far. seems like a pretty standard build? total: $958. : xxiv
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    i am reading up on the amd stuff though, thanks for those suggestions, last i remember they were getting ... : xxiv
    • AMD doesn't have (until possibly later this month) anything that can handle an i7, which is where they're... : one random winner
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      if you are waffling around with your upgrade you could just get a $99 X4 athlon II and them upgrade to th... : stgdz
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        microcenter has a X4 and asus mobo deal for $150 and they are in fairfax http://www.microcenter.com/spec... : stgdz
        • Or he could wait like, two weeks. : one random winner
  • Looks great, might be able to upgrade that 1333 to 1600 for next to nothing (they were pretty close last ... : one random winner
  • I just built a system with the same cpu and board as I mentioned above. I ended up saving about $135 over... : sigpro
  • Get some MX-5 thermal compound if you can find any. It's the new favourite. : Mr. Goodwrench
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    Needs more Lian Li case instead of Antec. : [7]kami
    • Don't listen to kami, he's delirious. : Do_Or_Die
    • ^this : usmcmueller
    • If you like paying 2 or 3 times the price of cases with comparable features then yeah Lian-Li is great. ... : deject
    • You mean needs more Corsair 800d instead of Lian Li : pancake humper
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    What's the 5770 equal to on the Nvidia side? I don't have a direct frame of reference. Thinking about get... : rudds
    • In price? The GTX 260. I believe they are fairly close in performance as well, though the 5770 is a newer... : jipey
    • 5850 >>>>>> 5770. The 5770 is a titch bit slower than a 4870. : cltcprd
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    Needs more Modular PSU. Go for the HX line of Corsair PSU's. : ant_hillbilly
    • good call, switched that up : xxiv
• i used to do full rebuilds but i've been doing some hefty upgrades lately (like replacing mobo, chip, mem... : gyokuro
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  I'm not sure about the i7 but you should keep in mind that the i5-750 is insanely overclockable. I have s... : snot3353
  • It's about the same with the i7, they've pushed 920's to 4.0 GHz on good aircooling. : JozhGoober
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  Don't get a 1366 socket whatever your choice may be. Intel has already stated the 1366 socket will be rep... : Magmaticzebra
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    Well you can still upgrade, it's just going to be a pain in the ass when you have to remove the entire mo... : snot3353
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      ^^ This. I don't upgrade at all unless i'm planning to overhaul the core components. : Mr. Goodwrench
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        How often do you upgrade? If it's only once every 3 or so years, you can save yourself a lot of money by ... : Magmaticzebra
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          How do you work that out? : Mr. Goodwrench
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            Well, if One random winner is correct, then it doesn't matter. But if you buy a CPU at the beginning of a... : Magmaticzebra
            • Well, this is dependent on Fudzilla (which has gotten a lot more, PC, since Charlie got the boot) being a... : one random winner
  • No current 1156 mobo's will work with the new CPUs though, the new mobo's will be CPU backwards compatibl... : one random winner
  • By shortly, you mean Q3 next year which is still a long time away in computer generations. And new parts ... : Alco23
• Go for i5, if you want to save the cash and are doing mostly gaming. i7 if you're doing anything more. Ke... : Link.
• With an i5 you're pretty well positioned to not have to upgrade for at least a few years : ColoradoCNC
• I like the i7 for the triple channel memory, huge bandwidth. But my roommate's i5 does well for games. : JozhGoober
• i7 860 seems to be the best bang for buck atm. It's faster than the i5 750, but doesn't use the expensive... : uncleanmonkey
• i7 is two more then i5. : SilverSnake
• iPad. : kramweil