New computer advice wanted

[Kirk]

So its time to build a new one. I have had this one for over 5 years running smooth, and am thinking about the intel I7 processor with either an asus or gigabyte mobo. minimum 6 gigs of ram .....have heard of a new solid state harddrive out but will wait on that. any ideas of video cards....i will eventually put in 2 and have 24 gigs of ram and 1 tb hdd sataII

[obsidian]

Prices in Canadian back in February, memory and GPU prices have since dropped but this is working well for me. shaft has an i7 as well.

http://www.quake3world.com/forum/viewto ... 13&t=39781

i7's are NOT best bang for buck and are rather expensive. If it's just for games and normal computer stuff, Core2Quads are an excellent performance processor and are much cheaper for processor, memory and mobo. Paired up with a powerful video card, you'll still get some impressive frames. I do content creation on my computer, so that's where my i7 does it's job.

[Plan B]

24 gigs of ram

why?

[Kirk]

well why not? i am running 4-5 memory hogs at a time

[AmIdYfReAk]

Well, how much are you willing to spend here? Cdn or USD?

[Kirk]

usd 1500-2000

[Foo]

i will eventually put in 2

Nah you won't. Everyone plans to do this but when it actually comes to it down the line, just buys a single, faster card.

[Scourge]

Not true. Lots of people have 2 or more cards.