Help me decide what to buy please!

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zarikian

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Hi, I'm trying to figure out which computer to go with.


System is obviously geared towards gaming...

Two Systems from HP:
#1 AMD
Processor AMD Phenom(TM) II X4 945 quad-core processor [3.0GHz, 2MB L2 + 6MB L3 shared, up to 4000MT/s]
Memory 6GB DDR2-800MHz SDRAM [3 DIMMs]
Hard drive 640GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive from 500G
Graphics card 1GB ATI Radeon HD 4850 [2 DVI, HDMI and VGA adapters]

Price $847.59

#2 Intel
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-920 processor (2.66GHz, 1MB L2 + 8MB shared L3 cache with QPI Technology)
Memory 6GB DDR3-1066MHz SDRAM [3 DIMMs]
Hard drive 640GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive from 500GB
Graphics card 1GB ATI Radeon HD 4850 [2 DVI, HDMI and VGA adapters]

Price $995.99

The rest is irrelevant base stuff. Obviously there is a ~$150 price difference. The question is really if the Intel system justifies the $150 increase.

Or is there a better system you would recommend based on the above pricing? I get a pretty good deal from HP for affiliate discount so it was my first stop.

Other systems I've seen that interest me in this range from custom PC builders:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227170
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227157
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4485017&CatId=3478

Which would you buy?

Thanks for any opinions,
Erik
 
zarikian said:
if the Intel system justifies the $150 increase
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Yes. The Core i7 platform is the best available right now, but you could save some money and look for an i5 setup, which is very close in performance, but the socket 1156 platform is brand new so you may not have luck right now finding pre built systems.
 
Core i5 is Lynnfield, Core i7 is Bloomfield.
Both are Nehalem.

That looks like a decent build, but you can't know what each component is,
or the quality of such components.
 
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Yah man, looks like a decent build from cyberpower, i bought from them once, and have had only minor problems, nothing i couldn't fix myself..

They do put quality parts in, EXCEPT the power supply, they always put POS cheapo power supplies in, so you are gonna want to upgrade to a decent one later...
 
The i7 from HP is $995.99.. the i5 from Cyberpower is $880... isn't it worth the extra $100 to get the i7, the 2GB extra RAM and the HP support?

Am I missing something?
 
I'm afraid what I have above is all they are really giving me. They won't tell me the basics and the mobo.

#2 Intel
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-920 processor (2.66GHz, 1MB L2 + 8MB shared L3 cache with QPI Technology)
Memory 6GB DDR3-1066MHz SDRAM [3 DIMMs]
Hard drive 640GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive from 500GB
Graphics card 1GB ATI Radeon HD 4850 [2 DVI, HDMI and VGA adapters]

Price $995.99
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I personally would go with the i5, there is no need to spend an extra 110 bucks for not much of an upgrade, sure it has 6 gigs of ram, but when you game, you wont even use a full 2 gigs... So in other words, 4 gigs would be fine, plus its running at a faster rate...

You can also over clock with cyberpower, cause they use "real" brand name parts, not propreitary parts like dell/hp etc.

So my choice would be stick with cyberpower.
 
Thanks man... there were some parts of the setup that I didn't like so I decided to just build it myself around the i5.
 
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