which is better for gaming, both are the same price about. also if you have any recomended substitutions that would greatly improve without breakin the bank:
1: Intel with one card, 6 gigs ddr3:
CASE: CoolerMaster Centurion 590 RC-590 Mid-Tower
POWER SUPPLY Upgrade: 680 Watts Power Supplies
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-920 2.66 GHz 8M L3 Cache LGA1366
COOLING FAN : Thermaltake Big Typhoon VX Gaming CPU Cooling Fan
MOTHERBOARD: (3-Way SLI Support) GigaByte GA-EX58-UD4P Intel X58 Chipset SLI/CrossFireX Ultra Durableâ„¢3 Mainboard Triple-Channel DDR3/1600 SATA RAID w/ eSATA, Dual GbLAN, USB2.0, IEEE1394a, & 7.1Audio
MEMORY: 6GB (3x2GB) PC1333 DDR3 PC3 10666 Triple Channel Memory
VIDEO CARD: ATI Radeon HD 4850 PCI-E 16X 512MB Video Card
HARD DRIVE: (RAID-0) with 2 Identical Hard Drives (1TB (500GBx2) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
Optical Drive: Lite-On DH-401S 4X Blu-Ray Player
2: AMD with two video cards in crossfire, 4 gigs ddr2:
CASE: CoolerMaster Centurion 590 RC-590 Mid-Tower
POWER SUPPLY Upgrade: 635 Watts Power Supplies (Sigma Shark SP-635W PSU - SLI Ready)
CPU: AMD Phenomâ„¢ X4 9950 Black Edition Quad-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology
COOLING FAN : Thermaltake Big Typhoon VX Gaming CPU Cooling Fan
MOTHERBOARD: MSI K9A2 CF-F AMD 790X CrossFire Chipset DDR2/1066 Dual 16X PCIE SATA RAID MB w/GbLAN, USB2.0, &7.1Audio
MEMORY: 4GB (2x2GB) PC8500 DDR2/1066 Dual Channel Memory (Corsair Dominator)
VIDEO CARD: ATI Radeon HD 4850 PCI-E 16X 512MB Video Card
VIDEO CARD 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850 PCI-E 16X 512MB Video Card
HARD DRIVE: (RAID-0) with 2 Identical Hard Drives (1TB (500GBx2) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
Optical Drive: Lite-On DH-401S 4X Blu-Ray Player
thanks,
1: Intel with one card, 6 gigs ddr3:
CASE: CoolerMaster Centurion 590 RC-590 Mid-Tower
POWER SUPPLY Upgrade: 680 Watts Power Supplies
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-920 2.66 GHz 8M L3 Cache LGA1366
COOLING FAN : Thermaltake Big Typhoon VX Gaming CPU Cooling Fan
MOTHERBOARD: (3-Way SLI Support) GigaByte GA-EX58-UD4P Intel X58 Chipset SLI/CrossFireX Ultra Durableâ„¢3 Mainboard Triple-Channel DDR3/1600 SATA RAID w/ eSATA, Dual GbLAN, USB2.0, IEEE1394a, & 7.1Audio
MEMORY: 6GB (3x2GB) PC1333 DDR3 PC3 10666 Triple Channel Memory
VIDEO CARD: ATI Radeon HD 4850 PCI-E 16X 512MB Video Card
HARD DRIVE: (RAID-0) with 2 Identical Hard Drives (1TB (500GBx2) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
Optical Drive: Lite-On DH-401S 4X Blu-Ray Player
2: AMD with two video cards in crossfire, 4 gigs ddr2:
CASE: CoolerMaster Centurion 590 RC-590 Mid-Tower
POWER SUPPLY Upgrade: 635 Watts Power Supplies (Sigma Shark SP-635W PSU - SLI Ready)
CPU: AMD Phenomâ„¢ X4 9950 Black Edition Quad-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology
COOLING FAN : Thermaltake Big Typhoon VX Gaming CPU Cooling Fan
MOTHERBOARD: MSI K9A2 CF-F AMD 790X CrossFire Chipset DDR2/1066 Dual 16X PCIE SATA RAID MB w/GbLAN, USB2.0, &7.1Audio
MEMORY: 4GB (2x2GB) PC8500 DDR2/1066 Dual Channel Memory (Corsair Dominator)
VIDEO CARD: ATI Radeon HD 4850 PCI-E 16X 512MB Video Card
VIDEO CARD 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850 PCI-E 16X 512MB Video Card
HARD DRIVE: (RAID-0) with 2 Identical Hard Drives (1TB (500GBx2) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
Optical Drive: Lite-On DH-401S 4X Blu-Ray Player
thanks,