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Originally Posted by Lanxdata
Thas the plan or I would get the 965. The 955 is about 50$ cheaper than the 965.
With adding a 2nd Graphics card/ Sound card/ 3 more HDD's ( x2 1TB drives x1 300GB Raptor)/ case fans/ an few cathodes for fun would put me close to a 750. Having the 850 just gives me extra head room.
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You're just calculating it wrong ;) Typical HDD power combined power draw from 5V lines and 12V lines is 5-10W depending model. HD4870x2 in the worst scenario draws 278Watts (300W is max by current PCI-E standard). And in the worst case I mean like some kind synthetic test like a furmark benchmark with extreme resolutions. I still say HX620 is good for overclocking even if you have SLI or crossfire with single gpu cards.
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Originally Posted by hikaru
i would skip the AMD build options and jump in the entry i7 processors, as it beats all but one of AMD offerings (note that the AMD processor is the AMD 965, one to three of the testing beats Intel 920 i7 if overclocked) Intel processor are well known for the overclocking abilitys over AMD, in fact my intel i7 processer is overclocked at 3 Ghz even though stock at 2.66.
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It is just that Intel costs a lot more than Core i7 system. X58 MB costs here atleast 180€, Core-920 240€ and 3x2GB DDR3 memory 100€, thats 520€ euros already. Then again choosing AMD PII 955 180€, AM3 790X MB 100€, 2x2GB DDR3 memory 60-70€ = 340-350€ (over 150€ difference!)
Budget is the factor that orders what you should buy and what you shouldn't.
