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In the upcoming months I am planning on a new build. I want the best bang for buck ratio and I think I know what I would like to do, I just want others opinions. I have a few builds in mind that I am comfortable with and prices I can handle.
In all honesty I am not ready to leave the 775 platform just yet, as I would also need to either buy a better cooler for the i7/i5 builds or get a bolt kit?
I am not sure on that, but I am heavily leaning towards the Q8200 builds for price and I think they will suit my needs just fine. So what would you do?
- Q8200
- Asus P5N-D SLI board
- 4GB PC2-800 RAM
- Corsair 650TX
- Second XFX 9800GT For SLI
- All for around $525
- Q8200
- 4GB PC2-800 RAM
- Corsair 650TX
- Palit GTX260 - 216
- All for around $515
- Core i7 920
- ASRock X58 Extreme
- Crucial Balistix 6GB DDR3-1333 RAM
- All for around $615
- Core i5
- Gigabyte P55A-UD3
- G.Skill Ripjaws 4GB DDR3-1600
- XFX GTX260 (not 216 model)
- All for around $620
In all honesty I am not ready to leave the 775 platform just yet, as I would also need to either buy a better cooler for the i7/i5 builds or get a bolt kit?
I am not sure on that, but I am heavily leaning towards the Q8200 builds for price and I think they will suit my needs just fine. So what would you do?