Building a computer

core 2 duo E8400 @ $165

GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R @ $120

ATi HD4830 @$130

ZeroTherm BTF90 @$45

My personal recommendation. Theres a slightly cheaper DS3 at $105 with the same chipset. Also the HD4850 is around $160 for a little bit better performance. You'd be very hard pressed to find a better performing system at that money period.

 
It's all personal opinion. I don't buy intel hardware.
I was the same way. My first 10 builds were AMD based and I swore I would never build Intel. Back then it was the AMD cpus that ran extremely hot. I had to have huge cooling just to overclock my 1ghz T-Bird to 1.4ghz.

I started considering a change when AMD switched to the stupid clock marketing scheme starting with the XP series. They remind me of the Bose and Monster of the cpu world with the only difference being that actually perform decent.

Intel dual and quad is a much better performer for my application and a $50 3ghz dual core cpu that will run at 40°C all day is too good of a deal to pass up

 
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