Quote Originally Posted by gtrmonkey
Look at the I7 Core by intel, THose thinks rock. They have most of the benfits of a single core and duo core. So your getting the best of both worlds.
intel does make good quality chips and chipsets,but AMD makes them just as good and they cost a fraction of the price.here is the computer i just built formy wife to mess around on and do whatever she wants to.the total cost of the machine was WAY under what you would pay for a store bought computer...and it even rivals a Mac.as much as i hate to say that,but it does,lol!!!!

Case
Cooler Master HAF 932 RC-932-KKN1-GP steel ATX Full Tower($169)

MotherBoard
MSI K982 Platinum AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX($145;i bought two)

Power Supply
FSP Group Everest 1010 1000W ATX 12V V2.2($270)

Processor/CPU
AMD Phenom II X4 940 3.0GHz Socet AM2+ Black Edition($230;i bought two)

Memory/RAM
OCZ Platinum Edition 8GB(4x2GB) 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Quad Kit($112;i bought two kits)

Video Card
VisionTek Radeon HD 3870 PCI-Express($100;i bought 4 of them)

FireWire Card
SYBA PCI-Express 1394a 4 Port Controller($32;i bought two)

USB Card
Koutech PCI To USB 2.0 Card($20;i bought two)

Hard Drives
WD Caviar Black 1TB 7200RPM SATA 30Gb/s($130;i bought five)

CD/DVD Drive/Burners
Pioneer 20x DVD+/-R($25;i bought two)
Pioner Black 8x Blue-Ray DVD Burner($240)

5.25" Drive
AFT Pro-28U 28-In-1 USB Card Reader($33)

total cost of computer was under $3000,and it is even liquid cooled!!!you cant even buy an alienware computer for that,and this thing will run circles around it.dual core is out of date,but still being used.quad core is the current standard,but AMD and Intel are getting ready to release the nano-series with 6 cores standard on them!!!