what would you do?
sorry for new thread, but I'm gonna build a system this weekend come hell or high water and I've wasted most of my time trying to decide between amd and intel (been abusing amd since K6-2 and it's hard to break old habits), the new 1090T looks pretty sweet, but I don't do a lot of multithreaded apps, and the 920 or 930's that I see seem to hit 4.0+ pretty easily... this is for my everyday machine so it would be on air, and possibly putting in some water, down the road.
also the X58 seems like a mature platform, while the I've seen some issues with the asus crosshair board that remind me of the headaches my current board had (and still has)
so I'm 90% leaning toward intel, - amd fans please feel free to try to drag me back towards the light - but do I go 920 or 930? been trying to look for a consensus and can't find one.
my general feel from what I've had time to read is that there is little difference between the two. if I'm wrong on this please educate me (links appreciated)
preliminary build: *note, price is less of an issue than availability, as we canadians don't always have local access to every brand available.
MB: Evga x58 SLI (classifieds are all sold out)
CPU: i7 920 ($30 cheaper than 930)
VGA: ?? (leaning ati, but I've seen some results from nVidia parts recently using new drivers that's making me wonder...)
Ram: ?? Patriot Extreme Performance Viper II Series is available in my area at $60 less than corsair dominator... haven't read the reviews yet though.
*storage* not really sure here, current drive is a SCSI at 15K but with old interface, I think ultra160? maybe not even that. it's pretty decent, but it does thrash from time to time, so I'm wondering if a solid state drive for the os and oft-used games and apps would be a worthy upgrade? ( reducing load times in games would be key, and seems to be the time the drive thrashes the most)
the rest will be canibalized from my current machine.
wow sorry about that, I was trying to keep it short, thanks for any and all input.
**P.S.** If I'm fortunate enough to talk my way into the cage and take my pick, is there a certain batch or range I should be looking for?
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