Need some Advice

[Squall_Rinoa86]

Being out of the desktop market for nearly 6 years and my latest and greatest is now showing it's age and is beyond upgrades sense its a laptop i'm now back and looking in the desktop market.

I'm now stuck between a Core i5 and a Quad Core set up...

Both have SLi Capabilities so i have turned to you guys for some hints, tips and constructive criticism. I normally deal directly from Newegg but this time i have turned my attention to tiger direct sense they have barebone kits. Anyhoot here's the systems in question i'm looking for answers on. I will be buying 2 EVGA 9600 GT Super Overclocked from Newegg.com for the GPU's used sense SLi 9600's are verry nice and pretty cheap.

Quad Core Build

CPU, Case, MoBo, Ram, PSU HD :http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6336124&CatId=2405

DVD Burner: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6336124&CatId=2405

Core i5

CPU, Case, Mobo, RAM, PSU: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6410516&sku=B69-1227


DVD Burner: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6336124&CatId=2405

Hard Drive: DVD Burner: [/b] [url=http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6336124&CatId=2405]][/url]

 

[rolli59]

9600GT is yesterdays GPU you should stick in a single HD5770 instead for the same performance and newer tech. I would go with the I5 build out of the two.

 

[Mark Heath]

Try not to use older tech on new builds when you can. Quad core is older tech than the i5 and the 9000 series is as well.

 

[Squall_Rinoa86]

Yea I know the 9600's are older tech Price to performance today the 9600's aren't really all that bad yet at least price/performance. I looked into those for a few days. As far as HD 5770 i'll pass... I'm a nVidia supporter all the way. They lead in laptop gpu's still and still sorta lead with the fermi 480GTX in nearly all cats when I checked out some reviews of the HD 5870 SOC. 9600 GT out does the 240GT which is more or less the same GPU compared to the 9500 GT. I was thinking on utilizing Evga's step up program depending on how expensive it would be for them to give me estimates on upgrading the gpu's.

As for Quad and i5 yea I'm aware Quad is an older tech but this is more of a sorta budget comp at this time considering my old single core 2.0 Athlon XP 2400+ died with 1GB of PC333 Ram and a 6600GT.... Which is what put me back needing a comp again. I'm also aware the Quad Core is on a dead socket and the fact core i9 release isn't to far behind even thou the i7 980x does have 6 cores but its like $1000.

Performance wise which would prob be better in multicore processes? (another reason im in the market is Final Fantasy XIV drops Sept 30th (22nd for CE preorders) and my 2.0Ghz dual core just doesnt cut it...)

 

[rolli59]

I would buy either 9800GT or GTS250 before GT240. The only reason to buy GT240 is if you have a small PSU. GTS250 can be had for ~$90 after MIR http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600007319&IsNodeId=1&name=GeForce%20GTS%20200%20series
9800GT http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125288 Under $70 after MIR

 

[Squall_Rinoa86]

I would buy either 9800GT or GTS250 before GT240. The only reason to buy GT240 is if you have a small PSU. GTS250 can be had for ~$90 after MIR http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600007319&IsNodeId=1&name=GeForce%20GTS%20200%20series
9800GT http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125288 Under $70 after MIR

Ok you now got me thinking of going to the 250 GTS.. Now here's the thing. Does it really matter what ram type the video card uses? I see alot of the respectable nVidia card makers for the 250GTS using DDR3 over GDDR3. The none-respectable ones or at least the ones who arnt as well known or carry the best warrantys are using GDDR3.

Now when it comes to both of them i know that GDDR3 is better than DDR3 but would it hurt to go with a DDR3 250GTS or? Anyone??

 

[Squall_Rinoa86]

I would buy either 9800GT or GTS250 before GT240. The only reason to buy GT240 is if you have a small PSU. GTS250 can be had for ~$90 after MIR http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600007319&IsNodeId=1&name=GeForce%20GTS%20200%20series
9800GT http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125288 Under $70 after MIR

Ok you now got me thinking of going to the 250 GTS.. Now here's the thing. Does it really matter what ram type the video card uses? I see alot of the respectable nVidia card makers for the 250GTS using DDR3 over GDDR3. The none-respectable ones or at least the ones who arnt as well known or carry the best warrantys are using GDDR3.

Now when it comes to both of them i know that GDDR3 is better than DDR3 but would it hurt to go with a DDR3 250GTS or? Anyone??