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Originally Posted by rockeru
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That i7 with 6 cores is only 20 dollars more - there can't be much difference in performance. That CPU is on some machines i was looking at but I saw a ton of bad reviews on the manufacturer.
I'm going to get a neighborhood shop near me to do a custom build - just want to keep it in the 1500-2000 range. What I've learned is cheaping out on the non-sexy parts of a computer because you spent most of your budget on the sexy CPU and GPU will come back to haunt you. That's what Dell and others do - they know the Intel i7 and the nvidea will get a customer all excited and make the sale, the rest of the parts they'll use will be low end.