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Intel or AMD - help!

Just wish X48/C2D route wasn't so expensive - means that it reduces what funds are left for the graphics card and memory.

Plus future upgrades will also be very pricey (x58/i7/ddr3 = ouch) with the end of socket 775.
 
You do really need a capable board to get the most out of a Crossfire setup, no point doing it by halves :)

The other option is to just go for a single 4870 or a 4870X2 on a P45 board. A P5Q Pro is about £95, whereas a Rampage X48 is £190ish or £270 for the Extreme DDR3. Crossfire isnt all that mindblowing unless the game supports multi-GPUs and you have a large sexeh monitor to play it on.

Core i7 and all its equivalent gear will come down in price a fair bit anyway, 775 will still live on for a few years yet.
 
With limited funds, the only way I can afford a 4870 or 4870x2 is to go the AMD route. At least that way I could upgrade to either a deneb or possibly shanghai, and not have to get another mobo as well since they still use the AM2 socket - as far as I know anyway.

But the current batch of boards with the 750 southbridge have not had very good reviews - mostly down to instability (poor BIOS?). Otherwise it's the SB600 which has a poor reputation to say the least.

So it's a case of AMDx2 6500 + decent SB750 mobo + DDR2 8500 + 4870, or a C2D8400 + X48 mobo + DDR2 6400 + 4850.

Some choice eh?
 
Think that I'm better off with dual core - since they can be clocked higher and few games actually benefit from 4 cores. Higher mHz help more as far as games go.

And this will be a games-only rig - other stuff is done on another computer.
 
Scrubydoo said:
Think that I'm better off with dual core - since they can be clocked higher and few games actually benefit from 4 cores. Higher mHz help more as far as games go.

And this will be a games-only rig - other stuff is done on another computer.
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More and more games are starting to use four cores.

I'd never go back to duo-core.
 
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