Purchasing gaming computer

[precursoris]

I'm interested in purchasing a new gaming computer. My budget is about $1300 CA. I've narrowed it down to these two computers, which are the exact same price. Which one should I go for?

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX31700

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX31616

The specs are at the bottom of the webpages.

 

[ringzero]

I'd personally go with the first one with the Intel processor. The 6950 video card isn't quite as good as the 6970 on the other one, but I think you'll get bottlenecked with the AMD processor earlier than you would with the 6950 on the Intel computer.

Keep in mind you could probably save a couple hundred dollars if you built it yourself.

 

[Sylin]

I'm interested in purchasing a new gaming computer. My budget is about $1300 CA. I've narrowed it down to these two computers, which are the exact same price. Which one should I go for?

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX31700

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX31616

The specs are at the bottom of the webpages.

You can also get a Dell with the same (or better) specs for a lot less. I went to Dell.ca just now and pieced together an XPS 8300 w/ Blu-ray, the Radeon 6870 GPU, and a few other extras and it came to $1149 CA.

 

[precursoris]

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