I'm all cashed up at the wrong time. 12 months ago it would have been a no-brainer to build a sandy bridge system, but with haswell next year dropping $2000 on an ivy setup could be pointless.
Currently:
Socket 939 Athlon 64 3700+
2gb Ram
250GTS
Obviously i NEED to upgrade, but the thing is i want to build a pc that is future proof for as long as possible, so here is the question, do i build an $2000 ivybridge system with a ton of RAM and a pair of GTX670s in sli to play today, or build a small G530 system with my gts 250 and finally play Crysis, FC2, Metro etc the way they are meant to be played for a short time, and then build a killer Haswell system on release 2013?
Possible builds:
i5 or i7 Ivy Bridge
8/16/32gb of 1600mhz ram
sli motherboard
2 x GTX 670s
or
short term
G530
4gb 1333mhz ram
keeping gts 250
Will Haswell be worth it? Buying a newly released CPU with a new socket could be trouble. The important thing to remember is i NEED a new system now.
Currently:
Socket 939 Athlon 64 3700+
2gb Ram
250GTS
Obviously i NEED to upgrade, but the thing is i want to build a pc that is future proof for as long as possible, so here is the question, do i build an $2000 ivybridge system with a ton of RAM and a pair of GTX670s in sli to play today, or build a small G530 system with my gts 250 and finally play Crysis, FC2, Metro etc the way they are meant to be played for a short time, and then build a killer Haswell system on release 2013?
Possible builds:
i5 or i7 Ivy Bridge
8/16/32gb of 1600mhz ram
sli motherboard
2 x GTX 670s
or
short term
G530
4gb 1333mhz ram
keeping gts 250
Will Haswell be worth it? Buying a newly released CPU with a new socket could be trouble. The important thing to remember is i NEED a new system now.