It's funny, ram is so cheap nowadays you buy 8 or 12GB, but you have no idea what, or if, you can take advantage of it.
Personally, I like to play with new software, so I give 2GB out of my 8GB to a virtual machine to test them.
Even worse, once you buy a ssd, win7 is supposed to disable superfetch, so more ram is going to waste.
Unless you have not updated your System Specs my graphics card crushes yours lol
I tried to keep it cheap actually. I got the GPU, PSU, and case from my dad (he builds computers too) which saved me a lot of money. I bought everything else, and it cost me (in total) $520.
I have the 1090T. I was considering the 1100T first, but I wanted a better motherboard so I had to go with the 1090T. Either way they are excellent CPUs!:)
Yeah, I've got to say, my Phenom 1100T and ATI 5870 graphics combo (with an ASUS motherboard) is by far the most stable setup I've had in a long time. I have a lot of games in my collection, and I can't remember the last time I had driver issues or anything like that.
I really want the Radeon 7000 series to come out so that the price drops on the 6970 -- I'd like to upgrade to one of those.
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