Wait till the Fermi range is released. Once that happens, you have a wider choice and could also expect the prices of the Radeon HD 5000 series to drop.
...I don't know the price of the 470 though. Im guessing 499 dollars.. Yall need to sell a liver to buy this card lol
and a spare kidney...to pay the psychic to find you the card in retail.
@Princeton
LGA1156 is still a viable platform. AM3 will possibly offer more going forward if you plan on upgrading again in the short-medium term, although this depends upon whether you think going from a four core CPU to a six core is going to be of any tangible benefit, and whether the upgrade is likely to financially viable.
As for the SLI / Crossfire thing....A single GPU card is more than enough for virtually any game at present. Multi-GPU driver support typically lags behind that of single GPU's, which can be infuriating if you've just picked up the latest game. The elephant in the room is however, the likely cost of Crossfire/SLI, unless you plan on buying two mainstream cards to deliver an enthusiast card gaming performance. In reference to Fermi, the chances of most people procuring two cards (outside of a few tech review sites...tho I hope Techspot is in the queue for that) are going to be both extremely rare and hugely expensive.
My advice would be to get the best performing (in the app's you use) system you can for now that is within your budget. Weigh up processor ability (here's a recent review of 131 CPU's -in French, so Google translate.Graphs are self explanatory) with any features you might want the system to incorporate (USB3, SATA 6Gb, connectivity etc.), rather than a possible upgrade path which may, or may not be viable as the time approaches.
Why does everybody spout off that "Intel chamges sockets fairly quickly"? My 5 year old Emachine is socket 775, as are my four other machines, which I build one of each year to amuse myself.; Socket 775 is still viable, although granted it's on its way out. This AMD AM3, AM3 939 nonsense is BS, Nobody seems to notice that.If you're looking for a multi GPU setup I would say that ATI seems to scale a bit better than nVidia.
Both the i5 750 and X4 965 are excellent processors. Benchmarks show that the i5 is a lttle superior. My only issue is that Intel tends to change sockets fairly quickly. For now, AMD is fully committed to AM3. Like DBZ said, going forward AMD build might provide better upgrade paths. The MSI GD70 has a lot of features and is a very good board to OC on.
I recently built a system using the i5 750 + MSI GD65 for a friend. It performs very well.
Yes indeed, one of the new "Wolfdales in sheep's (Pentium) clothing". Intel has a new T-4400 Pentium mobile, along with an older T-6600 "C2D", They differ only in cache spec, but still the argument is prosecuted that the T-6600 must be faster because it's called a "Core 2 Duo". I have one of the E6300 "Pentium" (2.8 Ghz) which yields a Windows 7 "experience" rating of 6.2 @ stock speed. It's an LGA 775, and I think they've more than given me my 72 bucks worth.Indeed LGA775 still has a full tank of gas. It's obviously not going out of style with Intel either judging by the number of new SKU's still making their way into retail, including a new E6700 (3.2GHz, 2Mb L2 (as opposed to the old(ish) E6700 -65nm).
and is still a potent combination.
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Nor have I built myself such a system. I'm actually quite happy with my old Emachines desktop. It doesn't expedite coding and burning DVDs like my dual core machines, but it's dependable, day in, day out for the web and such.People usually do not analyze their actual computing needs, instead they want something to brash about; frankly I have never built a top of the line system for my self since I started using computers about 22 years ago, because I do not feel the need to spend for something which I will never use to its full potential.
Sometimes I wonder this can be compared with what they say about men with expensive/sports cars i.e. the bigger the engine/more expensive car; the smaller the vegetable thing is ....... hmmm; something to think about captain isn't it
As to the rest of it, since I can't afford to overcompensate, I dare not give give too much thought to whether I need too or not. Besides, when you get my age, it's tough to sell your vegetable, whether it's "crisp" or not.
captaincranky said:Why does everybody spout off that "Intel chamges sockets fairly quickly"?