Computer question-advice for mobo and pcu.

[Dingo]

My mobo has +1 fire damage, and his poke ball is covered in laser spikes! The powers of your ceepee-yew cannot withstand it!

[zteknik]

My mobo has +1 fire damage, and his poke ball is covered in laser spikes! The powers of your ceepee-yew cannot withstand it!

You sank my battleship!!!

[ZERO THEORY]

Yea the last PSU I had wouldn't support all my crap I had to get the Antech 1000 watter.I'll probably go the water cooling route this time. All the fans I ran sounded like I was on the flight line..
If I had the space I would love to go a SLI rout but my desk will only hold one monitor.And dual graphic cards would be a waste.
Now that has me thinking ATI Or Nvidia? Last ATI card I had was junk,software sucked and lagged too much..Plus the drivers for it sucked,any updates for it and it crashed unless you manualy uninstall all the old drivers then install the new one.

Nvidia, hands-down. You already touched on the driver follies of Raedeon cards. And for the time being, Nvidia GPUs are simply making brighter, crisper, smoother displays.

[streetglideok]

Dont forget newegg.com. Intel is best, but AMD is the cheaper route. Dont forget, you'll likely need to upgrade your PSU. Any of the PSUs made more than a few years ago don't supply most of their power on the 12v rail, which is where most motherboards need it now. Corsair makes some really good units now as well as a few others. Alot of people running 16gb-32gb ram now.

[Byte Stryke]

Intel vs AMD
Ford vs Chevy
Glock vs..


AMD is every bit as good as Intel

eeexcept that you are going to pay for all of Intel's dumbass commercials trying to convince all of the sheep that their product is superior.
If you build a good product, it advertises itself.
I don't listen to any review that touts one product over another(Previous model comparisons aside)... chances are, they are selling you something.

[RblDiver]

I put together my PC for ~$1000 about a year ago, and it still can run most things on high (perhaps not ultra, but at least high) pretty well. Don't know what it'd run me today, but if you're interested I can dig up a list of my parts when I get off work.

[Caithford]

Intel vs AMD
Ford vs Chevy
Glock vs..


AMD is every bit as good as Intel

eeexcept that you are going to pay for all of Intel's dumbass commercials trying to convince all of the sheep that their product is superior.
If you build a good product, it advertises itself.
I don't listen to any review that touts one product over another(Previous model comparisons aside)... chances are, they are selling you something.

Actually, you aren't correct. AMD's architecture is different from Intel. They go with shorter execution strings to cheat "faster" clock times. AMD is less expensive for a reason. Intel i5 is the way the go. Plan on about $300 for a good i5-3570K is the way to go for top end chip. You can get a good motherboard for about $200. I wouldn't bump the m/b up to $300 and would instead spend that on the better cpu, or better video card.

[streetglideok]

You can usually find good mobo's in the $150 range. Dont go cheap on memory. I prefer Gskill myself. I would look hard at 16gb, but no less than 8gb. Get the best video card you can get. I'm running an nvidia 560ti, the 6-series is out now, I would look at the 650 or higher cards. And as I said before, make sure you are running a modern psu.

[Gman]

AMD is the company that brought you 64-bit x86 processing. Intel wanted to shove everyone into IA64 architecture. Look how well Itanium has done over its lifetime.

AMD is the company that brought you HyperTransport to get away from the Front Side Bus that Intel had been pushing forever. Now Intel has QuickPath, which you could say is a rip-off of HyperTransport.

AMD makes damn fine hardware. You can also get a lot more bang for your buck.

I also prefer AMD graphics solutions. You get more bang for your buck and you don't have the issues that Nvidia had with their chips that had ball grid array interfaces.

[zteknik]

Guystyhanks for all the input.
Now I can do some searching and research and pick the best bang for the buck.
I'm in no real rush so I can piece it together. I just hope when I get the pieces it's not outdated by then!!