OK, here's the deal. There were three main things in my mind while planning my new Gaming Rig:
High Performance in Games, Future Proof & Price
After long long long thinking, analyzing and researching ended up ordering this (the components should arrive next week:
- Corsair TX850W
- ASUS P6T SE
- Intel Core i7-920 (will overclock)
- Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus (changed mind from Scythe Mugen 2)
- G.Skill 6GB DDR3 1600mhz
- XFX RADEON HD 4890 1GB DDR5 PCI-E 2.0
Price: 811,66 € ~ $1195
www4.hardwareversand.de (the cheapest prices)
Price was OK for my budget, considering this would be "The Dream Gaming PC" for me that would hopefully survive after 2-3 years, too = Future Proof!
BUT, then I started looking and reading again, "unfortunately"... I noticed that i5-750 with 1156 motherboard would have cost me over 100€ ~ $150 less! AND the performance in gaming benchmarks would be quite same, even better!
http://namegt.tistory.com/224
http://img.inpai.com.cn/article/2009/8/14/b95f4ce0-68df-4634-833c-a9f1b5d1ecc2.png
etc. etc.
Now, I'm quite pissed off, because I really put a LOT of effort and time in this ! Did I really make the right choice investing more than $150 in 1366 i7-platform?! :/
Thanks for your comments, pushes & disses!
High Performance in Games, Future Proof & Price
After long long long thinking, analyzing and researching ended up ordering this (the components should arrive next week:
- Corsair TX850W
- ASUS P6T SE
- Intel Core i7-920 (will overclock)
- Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus (changed mind from Scythe Mugen 2)
- G.Skill 6GB DDR3 1600mhz
- XFX RADEON HD 4890 1GB DDR5 PCI-E 2.0
Price: 811,66 € ~ $1195
www4.hardwareversand.de (the cheapest prices)
Price was OK for my budget, considering this would be "The Dream Gaming PC" for me that would hopefully survive after 2-3 years, too = Future Proof!
BUT, then I started looking and reading again, "unfortunately"... I noticed that i5-750 with 1156 motherboard would have cost me over 100€ ~ $150 less! AND the performance in gaming benchmarks would be quite same, even better!
http://namegt.tistory.com/224
http://img.inpai.com.cn/article/2009/8/14/b95f4ce0-68df-4634-833c-a9f1b5d1ecc2.png
etc. etc.
Now, I'm quite pissed off, because I really put a LOT of effort and time in this ! Did I really make the right choice investing more than $150 in 1366 i7-platform?! :/
Thanks for your comments, pushes & disses!