Hi all,

Just joined and donated, really looking forward to the information on this board.

I have a choice to make here. I am an editor who uses my rig for audio and video. I was wondering if I should stick with a new school i7 build on Haswell architecture for about $650.

Or should I get one of these for about $1000

***dual 8c/16t computers, one is with Tyan S7002G2NR board for $1000, and the other is with Asus Z8NA-D6C for $800.
The latter has 24GB ram (can be upped to 48GB max later) but bigger hard drive.***

They both have dual L5520 processors installed (each processor 4 core with hyperthreading; but can be upgraded to 1366 xeon hexcores from what I understand).**

The upgrade chips would be fairly cheap now. What do you think?

THANKS