kagete said:he has $1.5K to spend! You can go AMD for a bit above 1k and pocket the change or you can go 1.5k for i7. With that much budget, you can start looking into either an SSD, 3D gaming, expensive sound setup, a better monitor, etc. No need to blow all available cash on just the desktop. PC gaming man, you have options
I just didn't post the rig because I've been lookin at this shit all day. Here are the three options as they are now:
Antec 902 mid tower
AMD 1055T
ASUS Crosshair IV Formula Mobo
G.Skill Ripjaws 4GB 1600 RAM
GTX 480
Corsair 650HX PSU
Intel X25 80GB SSD
Samsung F3 1TB HDD
Sony DVD burner
Windows 7 Premium - system pack for builders
Hyper 212 +
Price : $1654
The i5 setup has a different motherboard and case but everything else is the same and it comes out to $1584.
The i7 930 setup has a different mobo, different ram (triple channel) but everything else is the same. I get the processor from Microcenter for $200 and this build comes out to $1740.
So there's the break down.
i5 > amd > i7 in order of expense.