Final List - First build!. Well i have being searching far and wide to find the best possible parts whilst sticking to a £600 budget and i think i have finished! Here is the finished parts list: ATI HD4890 1gb DDR5 - - £165 Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz...

Phenom II X4 955 & Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 price reductions. Thank god for AMD by forcing the prices to drop on the Q9550, its redicously low. Same price as the Phenom II X4 955 nearly, except the Q9550 is $5 more. Q9550 $219 Phenom II X4 955 $215...

a quad core because I think that in the future more cores will come in handy. I chose for the Q9550 because it "felt" like a high end quad core (i7 isn't making much sense to me right now.) and also performs like one. I started fishing trough reviews to...

is pretty damn big, and you have an intel board, Intel Core 2 Quad q9550 @ 2.83ghz. I got this to 3.83ghz on that same motherboard with unbelievable ease. 4 ghz is probably possible, but that'll take a little bit more work. If you don't need four cores...

I would be able to build an Intel Q9550& AMD Phenom II 955 BE for roughly the same price (under $500 Cdn). Which system would you go with and why? Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 2.83Ghz (~3.4 OC'd) OCZ Vendetta 2 Gigabyte EP45-UD3R LGA775 G.SKILL F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK...

that's why i switched to customising a quad core for my future pc. Oh yeah MT- multi threading ?!?! Its not just for gaming it's also because i see the quad core processors are much better for installing programs quicker or running most applications quicker....

It also serves a larger 60HZ monitor resolution - 2048x1152 or 1920x1200. It also includes better cooling and Antec 900 case so probably more overclock potential. The second setup has Phenom II 720 BE and the GTX 260 Core 216SP and a standard Fusion Piano...

quite CPU and memory intensive all the time. In addition, i7's massive memory bandwidth actually does help me. My friend has a Core 2 Quad (Q9550) at 3.7 GHz, and when running some matlab programs, my computer is more than twice as fast as his. It is entirely...