AMD or Intel for my next upgrade?

[Marvin]

Unfortunately Ebay tends to be a little bit of a neccessary evil for some things - I try and sell on forums if I can.

 

[Mercutio]

While the tinkering and adding bits etc is a bit of a long road it's probably the cheapest overall. If you want something that WILL last for 4/5 years you'll be spending a fair ton of cash. Build something to last 2 years for about your current budget. In 2 years you buy new board, chip, ram, gfx and jobs done for a while again.

 

[rixarena]

it might also be worth looking at a second hand unit with an old quadcore extreme, you might be able to pick up a dell xps with a qx9770 for that kinda money and that will last a few years then just upgrade the GPU if needed.

Sam

 

[subbytna]

You might want it now but I would hold off; your system is already really good! You have one the best mainstream dual cores, an excellent gpu

AMD launch hex cores next year. Intel release thier 32nm range (someone correct me). 5 series will fall in price and we might even see fermi launched form nV!

So much on the horizon and I am not sure you are going to see a massive performance gain by upgrading.

+1

bank the money till June/July next year and use your current system.