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IronWarrior
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| Chuck Norris wrote on Fri, 08 May 2009 10:11 |
I'd watch barebone kits. They tend to cheap out on the PSU and sometimes motherboard.
IronWarrior, the parts you listed honestly don't have a good price to performance ratio.
Crossfire and SLi is a waste.
SSDs are a waste.
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Wow, you must be living in a cave.
You only need to see Futuremark results to see the preformance on how great the i7 CPU's are and since the i7 920 is only 200 or so GPU and can be OC'ed to 4-5GHz on AIR, shit overclockers are getting them to 6-7GHz on LN2
CFX and SLi are not a waste at all, again, look at benchmarks, am using CFX now and am getting FPS gain in most games I play, including Renegade.
SSD's are not a waste at all, they are a revolution in storage, the fact that they give 0.1 or so seconds in read times, which allows for programs for example like games to start up fully soon as you click the icon while a old HDD drive can take 10-50x longer.
Have you even seen any benchmarks for them, lol?
In time, we all be moving to SSD's when the price comes down which is already happing, Intel has dropped the price on theirs twice already and there are already 1 TB SDD's with PCI-E interfances.
One thing we can agree on is that if he wants a good computer, than the next gen is almost here, nVidia GT300 GPU's are almost here, DX11 and ATi's 5870X2 as well as Intels i5 CPU's.
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