ionik Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Birthday is coming around and wife is letting me upgrade ( ) Its been about 4 years since I last built a system ( lots of repairs and swaps but never a full build ) I haven't been keeping up on the latest and have a budget of $5-600 bucks for a mobo/ram/cpu, and debating on whether I should go with the i7 series or the Q ..... while I have found a lot of reviews for both most of them are many many months old. I already have a vid/psu/hd which is a GTX 260/600W (something??)/WD-180GIG. Video card is not yet bought PSU and HD are being thrown into new system from my current setup which is btw. Gigabyte K8-Pro Sli 600 W PSU --| 1.5 GIG Corsair Ram --|-- All 3 are 4 years old 180 GIG HD --| 7950GTX - About 1 1/2 year old From what I have seen so far I can get the following $620 ------------------ i7 920 Gigabyte GA-Ex58 Corsair 6 GB Ram $510 ----------------- Q9550 GIGABYTE GA-EP45T Corsair 4 GB Ram Is it worth the extra $110 for the i7, I will be doing quite a bit on the machine. It will be running a dual boot Linux/Windows 64 bit. Linux side will be for php development/everyday use Windows will be used for gaming/photshop. I'm pretty much fair to stick with corsair and gigabyte as that is what im running now ( have been for 4 years ) and never had a single problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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