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Hello everyone. My friend Jon asked me to build him a computer and I need some advice. He's got a budget of about $1500 Canadian, will use it entirely for games, and will not be overclocking it.
I thought at first that I should get him the i7 920 as it seems like the CPU of choice for many new builds. However, the higher cost of LGA 1366 vs. LGA 775 motherboards and DDR3 vs. DDR2 Ram has me thinking that price/performance wise it might be a better investment to get the cheaper q9550 and spend the extra money on a better GPU. I was thinking SLI'd GTX 260s with the q9550, or a single 260 with the i7.
Also, since he will not be overclocking at all would it make even more sense to get an E8500 that comes stock clocked at 3.16ghz vs. the q9550 at 2.83 and the i7 920 at 2.66?
Thanks a lot for your help.
I thought at first that I should get him the i7 920 as it seems like the CPU of choice for many new builds. However, the higher cost of LGA 1366 vs. LGA 775 motherboards and DDR3 vs. DDR2 Ram has me thinking that price/performance wise it might be a better investment to get the cheaper q9550 and spend the extra money on a better GPU. I was thinking SLI'd GTX 260s with the q9550, or a single 260 with the i7.
Also, since he will not be overclocking at all would it make even more sense to get an E8500 that comes stock clocked at 3.16ghz vs. the q9550 at 2.83 and the i7 920 at 2.66?
Thanks a lot for your help.