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Originally Posted by n2oinferno
I agree with this pretty much with a few notes. I'd spend the little extra on a 6850 over a 6790. And right now there's a combo buy for a free Sony dvd/cd burner with purchase of the 2500k, so those are something to watch out for. Also, I'd go with a WD black hard drive. After Samsung sold their HDD division to Seagate, and with all of the horror stories from Seagate lately, you can bet I'd stay far away from that right now. RAM speeds on Sandy Bridge platforms don't seem to make a difference, so I'd probably save 10-15 bucks and get 1333 vs 1600. There's a shellshocker right now for 8 gb of g.skill ripjaws for 35 bucks. I'm tempted to buy two of them, though I already have 8gb and have no need at all for 16gb. 
I don't think I'd wait on Bulldozer. I'm a little iffy on how it's going to perform and if it's going to live up to the hype, especially since they're firing high level executives in the company now responsible for the production of it. However, if it is faster, it's not quite the end of the world. As said before, the 2500k will break 4ghz with no sweat, and that's a lot of processing power.
Windows 7 is worth paying for. Plus, pirating OSes is just a hassle now with all of the checks. Another option is running the test version of Windows 8, too. |
Yeah, I wouldn't buy one of the newer Samsung/Seagate drives, the SpinPoint F3 is a Samsung drive prior to the sell out. I have 4 of them, they're the fastest 7200RPM 1TB drives out there and they can be had very cheap before the stock is sold out.
It's a tough call I always opt for the best of the best(Or close to it). I'd take the 6800 over the 6700 too, just depends what he feels like spending on a GPU.
If there was a significant price difference between 1333 and 1600 I would agree, but I can get 1600 GSkill Sniper sticks for $2 more than 1333 GSkill Ripjaws. Even if it's a modest performance gain I'll take any gain that only costs me $2.
There are a bunch of different ways to get Win7 for free, I used to use a pirated version to see if I liked it, but when it comes to my OS I don't mind spending a few bucks on the real thing. I'm a Microsoft fan, I'm happy to support them. Hell you could even try Windows 8 if you have patience. lol