Comment On New AMD based system

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Stay away from Rosewill PSUs. I would only recommend Corsair, Seasonic, PC Power&Cooling, or Antec. You also don't have a case listed.

Given your listed uses the 8gigs of ram may be useful to you, but an area where you can cut costs and get more later if you decide you need it.

Updated PSU to: OCZ ModXStream Pro OCZ600MXSP 600W

I bought several OCZ PSUs before, none of which have died. Could you suggest a decent i7 Build?

In the case of i7 builds, would it be possible to pick out a mobo that would be able to support the next generation of i7 (the 8 core variety) when it comes out?

$1500.00 ?? cad ,Newegg cheap??? ...
You must live way out in the sticks to consider "the egg " to be cheap ,even if their price is less that the local store it is still too much when you add the shipping cost ,and if something goes wrong you can add one way shipping to them usually in California,'cause that is where they are located their web site is just that a web site ,, no more ,, same as Tiger Direct.
And I might suggest that you consider staying with your original choice of an AMD cpu,you do not really indicate any functions that would not be handled by the AMD quad core just as fast and a hell of a lot cheaper ,,and with an upgrade path,which has yet ??? to be determined with Intel's latest...

Quick note: if you want to compare prices, use newegg.ca and tigerdirect.ca - They have canadian prices, which may not be the same as the US ones.

So, What you guys recommend is a i5 build on LGA1366 sockets?

checking back 2-3 weeks before you are ready to buy. All the answers could change in a couple months.

Alright, I gave a shot at building an i5 Comp:


RAM: OCZ Platinum 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit [$105.99]
PSU: RAIDMAX HYBRID 2 RX-630SS 630W SLI Ready CrossFire Ready [$84.99]
GFX: SAPPHIRE VAPOR-X 100269VXL Radeon HD 4890 1GB [$214.49]
CPU: Intel Core i5-750 Lynnfield 2.66GHz [$219.99]
MOBO: ASRock P55 Extreme LGA 1156 [$164.99]

(Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, Case, SATA HDD, and DVD-Burner I already own)

Subtotal: $790.45 + Taxes + Shipping
TOTAL: $912.31 CND


This is reasonably priced (Newegg had better prices then Tigerdirect). Comments on parts?

When is the 5850 coming out? Will it be roughly the same price as the 4890 I posted above?

Raidmax = crap; even though this is a new one, in the absence of a competent technical review I would assume it is garbage. 80+ means it probably isn't overrated (had to efficiently provide 100% of its label), but is likely still the lowest possible quality.
I agree with Hunter that for CPU intensive tasks, i7 on LGA1156 makes more sens than AMD, and I agree with DNDHATCHER that prices (and therefor answers) could be very different by the time you're ready to buy almost 3 months in the future.