What do you do when you get your hands on Intel's latest, most powerful desktop processor? If you're us, you build an edgy, powerful yet still affordable system around it. We walk you through the process.
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9/29/2009 11:04:44 AM
These kind of reviews are so subjective. Spending an additional $272 for an additional 130MHz is not the kind of choice you make when building an "affordable system". Same goes with the DDR3 1600 vs DDR3 1333, thats $30. The SSD's, affordable... I will say the NVidia 250 GTS card was a good choice. Although alot of the ATI stuff is looking really good from performance to price ratio. I suppose that wouldn't bring in the clicks though.
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10/1/2009 8:59:31 AM
I built an i920 system and it is just dandy. Faster than anything else I've ever owned by a long shot.
The money saved by using the inexpensive, but powerful, i920 was put towards a WD Velociraptor and a Radeon HD4870, which the combination of the two gave me FAR more return on the dollar than 130mhz would ever do on the next up i7.
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