ShiroNoYami #Tech Talk

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To AMD, or not to AMD; that is the question. I would take the time to do a full emulation of the soliloquy but I'm at work so I'll just cut to the chase. I'm planning to build a rig [i]very[/i] soon. And as such, I'm a tad torn between getting the i7 2600/k or the FX8110 for the CPU. I'm also a tad torn between the HD6950/70 and the GTX570 (though I feel like I'm leaning heavily towards NVidia atm because of CUDA) So all-in-all, do you guys think it (realistically) be better to just wait for Bulldozer or should I just get an i7 now for a rig? Purpose for this rig would be for media(mostly video) creation as well as gaming on the side (pre-ordering BF3 once it's available on Steam :D). K, back to waiting tables.

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Help with computer building please~ So it's finally time for me to build a computer to run MapleStory after so many years, will this run Zakum without any lag? :( [url=http://i53.tinypic.com/vxchlc.jpg]Build[/url] i7 2600 COOLER MASTER Hyper TX3 (EDIT: Now Xigmatek Loki) G.Skill 2x4GB 1333MHz EVGA NVidia GTX570 stock reference (EDIT: Now Sapphire AMD Radeon HD6950 2GB) ASUS P8H61-M (EDIT: Now ASRock P67 Extreme 4) Western Digital 750GB Asus CD/DVD burner Corsair HX750W (EDIT: Now TX650) Cooler Master Storm Enforcer Windows 7 Added: Rosewill RTK-015 15 Tool Kit TP-LINK TL-WN722N Wireless Adapter (EDIT: Now Rosewill RNX-G300EX) Nippon Labs USB extension cable Total: $1,280 US + shipping Joke aside, how's the build so far? I basically have the

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 & 6870 What do you think of these two new cards? They're basically made to compete with the GTX460 and GTX470 and costs pretty much the same :P [url=http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=410880]Benchmarks[/url] Moar benchmarks/reivews:;task=view&id=627&Itemid=72 Newegg prices: [URL=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102908]HD6850 @ 180USD[/url] [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121401]HD6870 @ 240USD[/url] Discuss :P