SirCyber
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happy birthday! good build muffin man
i agree 100%!! i love his build it is exactly what iw as looking for, ima c if im better off with his build or a prebuild with meh money. but definetely the best build so far for my money.
THNXS muffin man!
here is my reasoning....HMM... i just now looked over the build, i didnt really like it because total, its only like 950$? or around that. thats like almost 90$ still to spend. i wanna use every penny, and i really like the graphics card tho. the processor was,,, ehhh. i prefer i7 or sumthin else. the case i dont mind so much so its pretty cheap 40$ off.. ill take it i guess, but overall i didnt like it. i want to spend all my money and get the best performance. new rig?
thx peeps. jus trying to help ya out.
@ Ste; thx for those additonal psu links, some more options for him. i know one of those would work fine too, i just included the corsair 750w just to safely accommodate any possible future expansions like if he'll want an additional gfx card in xfire, additonal hdd's/optical drives, maybe some OCing too, and then just to get some headroom. plus, it fit into the budget nicely
just stating a difference between the i7 860 and i7 920.
the i7 860 has a dual channel memory controller, so preferably youd want to run ram sticks in sets of 2. (like 2x1gig, 2x2gig, 4x2gig)
the i7 920 has a triple channel memory controller, so preferably youd want to run ram sticks in sets of 3. (like 3x1gig, 3x2gig, 3x4gig)
thats why i said "preferably" though.
for the i7 860, you could use a tri-channel set, but it wouldnt run in tri-channel, and im sure it wouldnt run in dual channel either.
the i7 920, i think that if you have ram in sets of two, they will just run in dual channel instead of tri-channel.
either way, in real world applications including gaming, theres little difference that youre gonna see between them.