Ultimate Gaming/Multimedia Rig

[dom6918]

Right im getting conflicted views...

I want to build a system capable of playing the latest and the future!

This means HDMI connectivity (Dolby TrueHD etc.), flawless frames per second, instant boots to windows, large capacity, watercooling etc, HD video editing.

now do i purchase an I7 or a core 2 setup?

 

[reflux]

i7, and remortgage your house.

 

[lltfdaniel]

Well just looked at this http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTYwNyw1LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA== , and well prehaps a q9550 and overclock it, but holy crap an i7 near 4.0 is almost twice as fast.

But in real world application use well, most programs are not going to use the extra cores in the i7 and yet you certainly will have the graphics card bottlenecking the i7.

 

[alexx]

I priced this up a month ago and went for quad core agian, very happy I did I've got a 3.6ghz quad q6600 running at 62 degrees load on air with 8gb of ram at 900mhz with no new costly ddr3 prices ect.

id go quad. my older b3 stepping q6600 handled 1080i and 720p fine. the biggest workflow improvment for video editing if your using premiere would be a quaddro card.

 

[spitzoid]

If you've got the money, i7.

 

[cavemanoc]

This means HDMI connectivity (Dolby TrueHD etc.), flawless frames per second, instant boots to windows, large capacity, watercooling etc, HD video editing.

none of these things are in anyway dependant on the processor if you are choosing between i7/c2d/phII - it's down to choice of mobo/hdd setup and GFX card selection.

Given the amount you can save on mobo/ram on either a c2d or PHII system vs the i7 I think you can safely say that you will get a better system for the SAME MONEY spent on the 'lesser' processors (c2d/PHII)

 

[dom6918]

Thanks for the help guys..im thinking I7 based on its performance...rather the GPU is bottlenecked as opposed to the CPU where i would need to upgrade Ram/Mobo and CPU if it was the other way around!