alienware
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Hey all.
I have a friend who bought some PC stuff for a mental PC quite a while back (the best money could buy at the time, basically) and he has never managed to use it because of a crappy motherboard (I'm looking at you EVGA !).
OK. He then tried to build another rig leaving that one alone and that one went wrong and most of it was sent back.. Now he has the following.
Intel Core 2 Duo E8600
MSI P7N Diamond 4 way SLI (basically among the best 775 boards on the market, brand new in the box)
4 GB Patriot Viper DDR2 @ 1066mhz
Intel X25V SSD (190/80)
He is going to get a GTX 470 (probably) and has a Phantom on order and is considering an NH-D14.
OK. Now I spoke to him tonight and he says he wants to basically sell it all off (before even using it) and get an I5 or something.
Now. I have tried to explain that his chip will pass 4ghz without even breaking a sweat and at that sort of speed from a very good chip like that it would be absolutely crazy to chuck it all in the bin and go I5 unless he wants to sit in the corner with a roll of paper towells furiously pulling his pud whilst running benchmarks.
What do you guys reakon? I said that if he had money to burn he should instead throw a pair of 460s into the thing and have done.
He only really needs it for gaming and I am pretty darn sure that a GTX 470 in there or a pair of 460s would show the same kind of visual gaming results (IE enough min FPS and 60 FPS at the limiter) as an I5 machine.
I have a friend who bought some PC stuff for a mental PC quite a while back (the best money could buy at the time, basically) and he has never managed to use it because of a crappy motherboard (I'm looking at you EVGA !).
OK. He then tried to build another rig leaving that one alone and that one went wrong and most of it was sent back.. Now he has the following.
Intel Core 2 Duo E8600
MSI P7N Diamond 4 way SLI (basically among the best 775 boards on the market, brand new in the box)
4 GB Patriot Viper DDR2 @ 1066mhz
Intel X25V SSD (190/80)
He is going to get a GTX 470 (probably) and has a Phantom on order and is considering an NH-D14.
OK. Now I spoke to him tonight and he says he wants to basically sell it all off (before even using it) and get an I5 or something.
Now. I have tried to explain that his chip will pass 4ghz without even breaking a sweat and at that sort of speed from a very good chip like that it would be absolutely crazy to chuck it all in the bin and go I5 unless he wants to sit in the corner with a roll of paper towells furiously pulling his pud whilst running benchmarks.
What do you guys reakon? I said that if he had money to burn he should instead throw a pair of 460s into the thing and have done.
He only really needs it for gaming and I am pretty darn sure that a GTX 470 in there or a pair of 460s would show the same kind of visual gaming results (IE enough min FPS and 60 FPS at the limiter) as an I5 machine.