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Originally Posted by pest
To answer the original question, its really a personal decision if the FX55 is worth the extra cash. Both the FX55 and the 4000+ are very expensive. If you are already spending that much, the extra may not bother you.
In repsonse to a couple other statements made - the intel chips used to be better for video processing, but the FX55 ended that. Intel is now 2nd fiddle across the board to AMD.
The 90nm winchesters have the potential to be good overclockers, but they have turned out to be hit or miss. Inconsistentcy of the on die memory controllers seem to be to blame. Overclocking is always a crap shoot, but the winchesters are even more so.
If you really want to roll the dice get the 3000+ winchester. The good ones overclock to the same speeds as teh good 3500+s. But if you do draw a poor overclocker, the faster chipss will still be fast. The 4000+ will be fast no matter what. My 3500+ winchester is only a moderate overclocker, and it still reaches 4000+/fx53 speeds with a minimum of fuss (but not nearly what I hoped for).
Either ram listed above is fine. Both have their benefits. The corsair will have tighter timings at stock and medium overclocks, the ocz will overclock with more ease - less voltage and little need to mess with the timings or memory splitters.
That case only comes with 2 spots for fans. A 120mm exhaust and a 120mm intake. A single exhaust if ususally more than plenty for stock applications. The value of that case is the quietness of the the power supply and how it is matched to the passive air intakes. If you are replacing the powersupply and planning on adding additional fans above the two stock placements, i would consider getting a different case all together. Maybe the coolermaster wavemaster. It may server you purposes better. If you do go with teh sonata and soundproof it, make sure you dont cover the passive air holes on the sides.
I would recommend the diamondmax10 250mb 16mb cache harddrive. Smae price as the raptor, only a hair slower and 3 times the storage.
SLI mobos will require pci-e video cards.
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You write a lot of smart-looking stuff. oOo:
I have always been told that AMD is best for "cheap" gaming, not so much because of it's performance, but it's cheaper, or something like that. eek: