Need help building a gaming-system

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jallacola

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Hello im sitting at Dell.com or Dell.no since its norwegian :p building a system (Studio XPS 8100) im buying in a month.

I want it to be good for gaming and i have a few questions regarding processors, memory and screen cards so this is the current setup:

Processor: Intel Core i5-processor 670 (3,46 GHz, 4 MB)
Memory: 8192 MB (4 x 2 GB) 1333 MHz DDR-memory.
Screen card: 1 GB ATI Radeon HD 5770.

And my question is what is the best/optimal for gaming:

Intel Core i5 670 (3,46 GHz, 4MB) - or - Intel Core i7 870 (2,93 GHz, 8MB).

8192 MB (4 x 2 GB) 1333 MHz - or - 8192 MB (2 x 4 GB) 1333 MHz.

1 GB ATI Radeon HD 5770 - or - 1 GB Nvidia GeForce GTS 240

Yes, im building it online so thats the options i have.

Hope you can help and that you all agree with each other so its not hard to choose :p
 
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jarlmaster47

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ok the i7 is MUCH better than the i5 even though it has a lower clock. It is a better oc'er and 8mb of L2/L3 cache beats 4mb any day. the fact that it has more memory is all the justification you need for that. I would get 6 gigs instead of 8 so you can run in triple channel which beats 8 gigs which would have to run in dual channel. the 5770 is a MUCH better graphics card so definitely get that
 
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Gabe63

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That is not even a fair comparison. An i5-750 at 8mb catch is a good buy and a better bang for buck than those two IMHO.

The 5770 hands down over the 240.

Just start with 2x2g 1333.

If it is gaming use the money saved for a 5850, that will make a big diff.

i5-750, 4 g total, 5850 = good game comp.
 
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jasonwow

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jarlmaster47 said:
ok the i7 is MUCH better than the i5 even though it has a lower clock. It is a better oc'er and 8mb of L2/L3 cache beats 4mb any day. the fact that it has more memory is all the justification you need for that. I would get 6 gigs instead of 8 so you can run in triple channel which beats 8 gigs which would have to run in dual channel. the 5770 is a MUCH better graphics card so definitely get that
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cant overclock a OEm machine unless its from cyberpc or the other place
 
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Drenlin

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For gaming, go for the i5 750. The i7 will be bottlenecked by the video card, for the most part, and the i5 6XX models are only dual cores.
 
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