Here is what I am thinking of using in my new gaming PC I am currently building. OR will the Bulldozer be worth the money once it's released (soon I think?) to move on over to AMD and outrank the 1100T and the i7?MoBo: ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3CPU: Intel Core i5 2500KRAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600MHzvs.MoBo: ASUS Sabertooth 990FX CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition RAM: G.SKILL Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1866
The first one is far better. There no better setup today then an Intel Core Sandy Bridge with the new Z68 chipset. Would be best with the Intel Core i7-2600K, but Intel Core i5-2500K is very good also. That's what I got in mine, Intel Core i5-2500K. Except that I have G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 and a Z68 Gigabyte motherboard. As for the Bulldozer, it might be good, but never better than the top of the line Intel. No AMD was ever better than the best Intel of its time.
I would go with 7 or 8, The biggest thing with gaming is Graphics, Memory, and your processor. I would make sure you had just about the best graphics cart you can buy, memory I would go with the 1GB and test once you are up and running, if you see slow performace, up the memory. Processor I would get youself the quad. Main thing is go with the best you can afford on items that are not upgraded easily such as the processor, other items such as memory which is plug and play I would go with moderate since you can test and upgrade later if needed.
Keep Ripjaws on there for both setups. i5 is better. i7-2600k would be better bang-for-buck and i7 980k would be ideal (with matching motherboard).
