I was pm'd by 'vrumor' from these forums. He sells on ebay. This doesn't include shipping and he doesn't mention windows 7. What do you think of this build for $1000 ?
1. Also when I look at the gaming cpu heirarchy, I see that the entry level intel i3 (which are dual core right?) are better than the best AMD chips? Why is that?
2. Also, these are in tier two also? Core i7-980, -970, -960 Core i7-870, -875K
These are laptop cpus right? Why would they be better than the top of the line AMD? I am not sure why AMD is so far behind.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html
Here is the build. Don't think it includes windows 7 since it wasn't mentioned. I am thinking of dropping to 2x500 gb hard drives. I won't fill them up. I only did 1 TB because the price was so close. I want to go up to 8 gbs RAM. Not sure if that swap will cover the RAM.
Would I be better off going down a little on video card and up on cpu to an i5?
Intel i3-2120 Dual Core 3.3 ghz CPU (check the gaming CPU hierarchy chart, its tier 2)
ASUS P8H61 mobo (has 2 USB 3.0 ports on back panel)
4 gb GSkill 1600 RAM (upgradeable to 16 on mobo)
2 x1 TB Western Digital Caviar Blue in Raid 0
Sapphire 7850 2 gb DDR5 vid card (will blast anything at 1080p or less) Comes with free Dirt 3 Showdown Coupon
Antec 520w ECO power supply
Thermaltake V3 Black mid sized case
1. Also when I look at the gaming cpu heirarchy, I see that the entry level intel i3 (which are dual core right?) are better than the best AMD chips? Why is that?
2. Also, these are in tier two also? Core i7-980, -970, -960 Core i7-870, -875K
These are laptop cpus right? Why would they be better than the top of the line AMD? I am not sure why AMD is so far behind.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html
Here is the build. Don't think it includes windows 7 since it wasn't mentioned. I am thinking of dropping to 2x500 gb hard drives. I won't fill them up. I only did 1 TB because the price was so close. I want to go up to 8 gbs RAM. Not sure if that swap will cover the RAM.
Would I be better off going down a little on video card and up on cpu to an i5?
Intel i3-2120 Dual Core 3.3 ghz CPU (check the gaming CPU hierarchy chart, its tier 2)
ASUS P8H61 mobo (has 2 USB 3.0 ports on back panel)
4 gb GSkill 1600 RAM (upgradeable to 16 on mobo)
2 x1 TB Western Digital Caviar Blue in Raid 0
Sapphire 7850 2 gb DDR5 vid card (will blast anything at 1080p or less) Comes with free Dirt 3 Showdown Coupon
Antec 520w ECO power supply
Thermaltake V3 Black mid sized case