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AddRAM said:

It better cool my house for that price LOL

It just might! LOL

AddRAM said:

bobkn said:

MSchild said:

I can't speak on the SSDs, as the last I knew there were issues getting the performance out of them due to wait-states in the CPU. But like I said, I can't really speak on them, as I've never used them and all I know is things I've read.

I would however offer this: IMHO, I like the ATI graphics, and if I'm going ATI on the GPU, I'm definitely going to go AMD on the CPU and mobo chipsets as well. Of course, mixing and matching components from different manufacturers is nothing incompatible, but when I build a machine I never do. Its a take it or leave it sort of thing I suppose, but to me, it just makes sense.

So, if you were going for an nVidia graphics card, you'd use an nVidia CPU and chipset?

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

Not written in stone, but it would be best. It`s all about your pocketbook and availability.

That was a joke. Mockery, even. Hence the apology.

(There are no desktop nVidia CPUs at the moment. nVidia has gotten completely out of the motherboard chipset business for Intel CPUs. I believe that Intel didn't license them for the Core series and later. nVidia also doesn't seem to have many products for AMD any more.)

Avoiding using an AMD/ATI graphics card in an Intel based system is a suggestion I've heard before. I have never heard of any compatibility or performance issues that would cause me to regard that as "sense". (Not even anecdotal reports.)

All you Radeon HD 7990 ($1k dual GPU card) owners out there: Intel or AMD CPU?

linnemeyerhere said:

Don't get me wrong air cooling is a most viable solution and in the long haul likely less maintenance but with any sort of overclock or living in a hotter area I appreciate the added cooling capacity and quiet operation along with the added space in the case.

I agree with you linnemeyer. I don't plan on overclocking, but to me the Corsair H80 water cooler was still a temptation just for the reasons you pointed out. I finally settled on air cooling for now at least, but I was tempted. LOL
With overclocking, I would see it as a near necessity.

[QUOTE=AddRAM;2296406]Why would nVidia ever have products for AMD, it`s their competition./QUOTE]

All jokes, I suppose. However:

nVidia made the best (IMHO) motherboard chipsets for AMD CPUs back in the Athlon 64 days. I handed down an A. 64 X2 4400+ in an Asus A8N-SLI board to a friend a few years ago, and she is still using it. Most motherboards for AMD CPUs now seem to carry AMD chipsets. Lately, some of those have been licensed to run SLI. (Some of us are old enough to remember SLI as Scan Line Interleaving. nVidia bought the term when they were picking over the bones of 3dfx, but changed it to Scalable Link Interface.)

AMD didn't buy ATI until 2006. (It's in Wikipedia, so it must be so.) AMD wasn't big in discrete graphics cards before that.