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peashooter
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Hello all,
Well I have decided to take the plunge and purchase OFF:BHaH, and being the tax man has been very kind to me this year, I'm ready for a major 'puter upgrade. Here is the rig I'm looking at, and its overkill I know, but I have a son starting collage this summer for Gaming Design so it has to pull double duty and I want to be future proof as much as possible. But the CPU/Memory/OS is causing me some hesitation I'm just going to list the main items
Intel Core i7-920 2.66ghz 8m L3 Cache LGA1366
Asetek liquid CPU cooling system
High Preformance Thermal compound
Gigabit GA-EX58-UD4P Intel C58 Chipset 3 way SLI support
3GB DDR3/1600Mhz TCM (Corsair w/heatsink)
800 watt XF800S Quad support power supply
Maxtor 500GB SATA-II 3.0GB/s 16MB cache 7200rpm
2 -nVidia Geforce 9800GTX 1gb 16x PCI express cards
Now I can get a Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0ghz with 4GB DDR2/800 Corsair with all the other items listed above for way less then the i7 unit above (or a Quad Core with a little less savings). With the Core 2 Duo system I could leave it as is and keep the savings or upgade the video cards or add more memory (maybe both?). Like I said I know the i7 system is probably the future, but for the Core 2 Duo (or Quad Core) pulling the same double duty I mentioned above ,about how many years will the Core 2 Duo or Quad Core system be a viable gaming /school rig?
Second is the OS for either rig. Right now I'm using Vista Home Premium 32 bit and I do like it, I really have not had the troubles some have had with Vista so I would like to stay with it. My question is should I stay with Home Premium 32 or go for 64? I've heard Vista 32 has limits on the ram it will let you use and I heard some real horror stores about Vista 64 can anyone offer any advice (please be unbiased and give facts I would highly appreciate it)
:ernae:
Well I have decided to take the plunge and purchase OFF:BHaH, and being the tax man has been very kind to me this year, I'm ready for a major 'puter upgrade. Here is the rig I'm looking at, and its overkill I know, but I have a son starting collage this summer for Gaming Design so it has to pull double duty and I want to be future proof as much as possible. But the CPU/Memory/OS is causing me some hesitation I'm just going to list the main items
Intel Core i7-920 2.66ghz 8m L3 Cache LGA1366
Asetek liquid CPU cooling system
High Preformance Thermal compound
Gigabit GA-EX58-UD4P Intel C58 Chipset 3 way SLI support
3GB DDR3/1600Mhz TCM (Corsair w/heatsink)
800 watt XF800S Quad support power supply
Maxtor 500GB SATA-II 3.0GB/s 16MB cache 7200rpm
2 -nVidia Geforce 9800GTX 1gb 16x PCI express cards
Now I can get a Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0ghz with 4GB DDR2/800 Corsair with all the other items listed above for way less then the i7 unit above (or a Quad Core with a little less savings). With the Core 2 Duo system I could leave it as is and keep the savings or upgade the video cards or add more memory (maybe both?). Like I said I know the i7 system is probably the future, but for the Core 2 Duo (or Quad Core) pulling the same double duty I mentioned above ,about how many years will the Core 2 Duo or Quad Core system be a viable gaming /school rig?
Second is the OS for either rig. Right now I'm using Vista Home Premium 32 bit and I do like it, I really have not had the troubles some have had with Vista so I would like to stay with it. My question is should I stay with Home Premium 32 or go for 64? I've heard Vista 32 has limits on the ram it will let you use and I heard some real horror stores about Vista 64 can anyone offer any advice (please be unbiased and give facts I would highly appreciate it)
:ernae: