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15 years ago
Well then, due to my never ending craving of power I'm selling my desktop. Possible buyer coming up. I hope they bite. Its a pretty damn good computer too. (incase the geeks are wondering):
Phenom 9850 @ 2.8ghz
8gbs DDR2 pc6400
Nvidia GTX 260 Core 216 (Asus)
Gigabyte GA-MA-UDP4 Socket AM2+
Netgear N+ wireless adapter (PCI)
Hauppauge TV tuner (forgot the model)
WD Caviar Blue 500gb 7200RPM HDD
Hyper 730watt Power supply (<3)
AeroCool Extreme Engine 3 Midtower ATX case
New build can go either AMD or Intel as the price on the i7 and the Phenom II x6 T1090 are about dead center. I'm partial to the 6 core but the problem is that its only marginally faster than the 955BE and slightly slower than the 965BE, not to mention not many things are gonna utilize all 6 cores. Granted, the whole speed boost thing disables 3 of the 6 cores and speeds up the other 3, then theres the whole thing about hyperthreadding and what not and how games are utilizing that whole business. Planning on building it in a Thermaltake Spedo Full tower case. Atleast 4 gbs of RAM, 1tb HDD and eventually a ATi Radeon HD5870 (when the price comes down a HD5970 will be on the way)
In other news my damn car has been in the shop for engine issues 3 times already, rather pissed about that, its less than a year old. Me and Sykes arent together anymore though things are gettin worked on so maybe that'll change in the future but ya never know.
Found out today that I'm one of many who've gotten scamed by Paisley. I'm not sweatin it though as it was only $15 but be warned, she will not honor any commission you request. If you look at her FA, its been flooded with people in the same boat as me and I was at AC when she got me, so watch out.
Phenom 9850 @ 2.8ghz
8gbs DDR2 pc6400
Nvidia GTX 260 Core 216 (Asus)
Gigabyte GA-MA-UDP4 Socket AM2+
Netgear N+ wireless adapter (PCI)
Hauppauge TV tuner (forgot the model)
WD Caviar Blue 500gb 7200RPM HDD
Hyper 730watt Power supply (<3)
AeroCool Extreme Engine 3 Midtower ATX case
New build can go either AMD or Intel as the price on the i7 and the Phenom II x6 T1090 are about dead center. I'm partial to the 6 core but the problem is that its only marginally faster than the 955BE and slightly slower than the 965BE, not to mention not many things are gonna utilize all 6 cores. Granted, the whole speed boost thing disables 3 of the 6 cores and speeds up the other 3, then theres the whole thing about hyperthreadding and what not and how games are utilizing that whole business. Planning on building it in a Thermaltake Spedo Full tower case. Atleast 4 gbs of RAM, 1tb HDD and eventually a ATi Radeon HD5870 (when the price comes down a HD5970 will be on the way)
In other news my damn car has been in the shop for engine issues 3 times already, rather pissed about that, its less than a year old. Me and Sykes arent together anymore though things are gettin worked on so maybe that'll change in the future but ya never know.
Found out today that I'm one of many who've gotten scamed by Paisley. I'm not sweatin it though as it was only $15 but be warned, she will not honor any commission you request. If you look at her FA, its been flooded with people in the same boat as me and I was at AC when she got me, so watch out.
I'd say go with the AMD 6 core the only intel I think is a good product is the 980X 12 core because... I can turn the hyper threading off and make it a 6 core XD at that point why pay $999.99 for something AMD offers that is just as good for $299.99 / $199.99. Hope you ended up getting a buyer for that machine, sounds like a really nice rig. about to upgrade to the X6 1055T myself from a Phenom 8650 X3. The HD 5870 are really nice cards, but if I were you I'd wait for the HD6 series. apparently they're doing some sort of new stream processor called unicore or something like that. some sources saying it should be about 20% faster using much less watts and producing even less heat.