Sell iMac to upgrade?

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Bought a 6950 gpu and since I've bought it I've found I'm using my iMac less and less. My current pc has 4gb ram with a phenom II x6 1090t processor. Motherboard doesn't support / crossfire.

As my pc is quite powerful compareD to my iMac Im barely using my iMac at all. It was only used for the abobe suite but it's performing better on pc. Ill miss final cut pro (i do video editing at Uni) but can get away with the adobe premiere. The good thing about iMacs is that they retain there value and my 2 year old 20" 4gb core duo seems to be going for around £400 eBay.


My question is .. If I sold it for around that price.... Would an i5 ...pz68 mobo 8gb ram... See notable gains in power :) ... Or stick with phenom II for now and keep my iMac.
 
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see notable gains in power.

btw if you're doing video editing then may benefit from the i2600k/i2700k over the i2500k if adobe premier makes use of the hyperthreading(same true for any other programs you use that utilise hyperthreading).
 
Why not just sell the imac now, save the cash and wait for Ivybridge? Your Phenom II setup will still be more powerful than the mac at the moment?
 
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