ok, when you look at just the cpus, intel's newest offering wins hands down, but, what about the total system cost?
i have yet to see anyone that can give a definite speed of ddr2 that is necessary for the new conroe chips, regardless, it's much more expensive than ddr400.
motherboards? how about a pretty good 939 mobo for about 60?
cpu... 100-200 for an excellent 939.
basically, one could put together a really nice machine (by pre-conroe and current gaming standards) and still have the funds to build a second one that is nearly as excellent.
OR one could put the money that was saved into paypal and actually have something there for a "rainy-day fund" (for those of you unaccustomed to that spooky 6-letter "S" word).
OR one could do what i plan on doing and (wait a week or two to see real-world conroe benchmarks and then) snag a 4400 :cough: fx60 in sheep's clothing :cough:, water cooling, 2 gpus, and a 10k rpm raid (maybe just one hdd, undecided), 2gb of 2 latency ram, and have a freakin' awesome gaming machine for one person... or 2 freakin' awesome machines for 2 people (because i already have a "blizzard-filled winter fund"
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don't misunderstand my message, i would probably buy a conroe myself... if all of the extraneous expenses didn't make it so silly. why should i spend twice as much to build a computer that would be bottle-necked by graphics and hdd?
critiques welcome, please redirect me if i'm wrong on this.
i am quite confident that my choices will result in me having a grand all-around pc and better lan party attendance (it's a weekly thing during the college season).
i have yet to see anyone that can give a definite speed of ddr2 that is necessary for the new conroe chips, regardless, it's much more expensive than ddr400.
motherboards? how about a pretty good 939 mobo for about 60?
cpu... 100-200 for an excellent 939.
basically, one could put together a really nice machine (by pre-conroe and current gaming standards) and still have the funds to build a second one that is nearly as excellent.
OR one could put the money that was saved into paypal and actually have something there for a "rainy-day fund" (for those of you unaccustomed to that spooky 6-letter "S" word).
OR one could do what i plan on doing and (wait a week or two to see real-world conroe benchmarks and then) snag a 4400 :cough: fx60 in sheep's clothing :cough:, water cooling, 2 gpus, and a 10k rpm raid (maybe just one hdd, undecided), 2gb of 2 latency ram, and have a freakin' awesome gaming machine for one person... or 2 freakin' awesome machines for 2 people (because i already have a "blizzard-filled winter fund"
)don't misunderstand my message, i would probably buy a conroe myself... if all of the extraneous expenses didn't make it so silly. why should i spend twice as much to build a computer that would be bottle-necked by graphics and hdd?
critiques welcome, please redirect me if i'm wrong on this.
i am quite confident that my choices will result in me having a grand all-around pc and better lan party attendance (it's a weekly thing during the college season).
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