700 Maximum Performance/Price Gaming System. I'd like to build a computer which hits the "sweet spot" of the hardware market and gets maximum performance for the dollar. I'd also like it to be as "futureproof/upgradeable" as possible, so that, as it starts...

performance at this price. Will need Case, PSU, Mobo, Processor, RAM, Graphics Card(s), Coolers/fans, HDD and DVD reader. OVERCLOCKING: I would prefer not to have to overclock myself. In terms of SLI and crossfire again i would like maximum performance...

gets stomped by Intel cpus. NOT good. You want gaming, it's Intel and Nvidia, NOT AMD and ATI. It is a good thread. Questions we all contemplate when planning a new system. Maximum performance! I just got done building my system and decided against...

this moment in time and see no point in upgraded to a 4890 for a 10% performance increase when Crossfire 4850 can give me about 40% performance increase, at the SAME price as a single ATI 4890. My problem is that I have heard so many nightmare stories about...

in the Pentium 4 helps leverage the bottlenecked Front Side Bus, but I personally believe that larger Level 2 Cache does not mean greater performance, and in some cases, I believe it to decrease performance (Refer to "Cache Comparison" at end). A new core...

price/performance bargain, and in benchmark scaling, the thing should give roughly 5% less in gaming since most games use the GPU and rely on it. Only lousy programmed games like Commanche 4 need a 2.8GHZ to run smoothly. And for Office, if you type about 500...

just cause you have a 6 core cpu... Both AMD and Intel price according to the market. They are both selling their chips competitively on the price/performance curve where each of their chips land. Those 18-20 months of performance lead for the i7 920 is...

is all my CPU can deliver, which is unplayable for UT3, so my GPU upgrade was a waste (and buying UT3 for that matter). However, my CPU ceiling is about 40fps for BF2142, so for that game i can increase settings from Medium-low to maximum, for NO PERFORMANCE...