everything looks good? i choose AMD since its a lot cheaper ... 100 vs 150 for a C2D of comparable performance...
and how will the computer handle crysis?
The CPU your chose is of a lower class than the video card.
For someone who's price/performance conscious, you're not consistent.
If you're that sensitive to price/performance optimizations, you should get a 8800GT instead...
BUUUT, maybe you're really an AMD fanboy
Seriously, even with a reasonable motherboard, you could overclock a cheap Intel CPU much higher, and justify your price/performance requirements.
I'm using an Asus P5K to overclock an E6750 to 3.4GHz.
Current Intel CPUs maintain lower temps, and offer higher possible clocks (and of course performance).
The E4500 is shown to have a superior Price/Performance ratio over the AMD 5000+, and that's before considering overclocking, which would make this advantage bigger.
At stock speeds AMD has to lower their price that much just to compete. Once you throw overclocking into the mix, AMD cant touch Intel at all. I would recommend taking eltoro's advice and going with the e4500. I would also not recommend SLI unless your gaming at high resolutions, and even if you stick with AMD, that would mean you dont need an SLI motherboard or the Intel version either if you do decide to go that route.. For the same price you can get a much newer(read:better) board with an Intel chipset or save a few bucks on a non-SLI AMD board..
According to an xbitlabs E8x00 review, there's a substantial in OC potential between the different models in the E8x00 family.
The E8400 should be capable of 4GHz! And that would be 4GHz of enhanced Core 2 goodness Even lower temps and higher performance than current Core 2 Duo CPus.
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