I completely agree with this. I will add that right now, I believe the best bang for the buck if you are doing compiling and running workloads that will be multi-threaded or use up multiple cores is the new AMD Phenom II X6 with a AM3 motherboard and about 8Gb of DDR3 RAM.
If you are wanting to play games, I would get a Intel Core i7 with Turbo Boost, and one generation old card from NVidia or ATI that was the highest end for its generation. Like a Nvidia GTX285 or ATI 4890. Wade Cox wrote: > Also the one from Tiger I think you said you like only has pci-e x16 > slot. One thing I like to do when building a new system is try to buy > a better MB than the rest of the system with an eye to upgrading > later. Like spend a little extra on a core i7 board then buy the Lower > end processor that said board supports and also start with one decent > video card with the idea of going sli later. -- Kyle Gonzales [email protected] GPG Key #0x566B435B Read My Tech Blog: http://techiebloggiethingie.blogspot.com/
