I said 2700$ for all parts together! Intel Processors & Nvidia Video Cards are so much better then AMDs and ATI Radeons, those products will even work much longer. I have seen this scientific project when AMD Processor was put on high temperature, it actually started to produce flames, so imagine what can happen to your house when nobody is at home!
Okay, after I finish laughing let me start..... not yet, still have the giggles..... okay, lol, man that is the most rediculous statement I have seen in quite awhile.
Where in any document does it say Intel processors will outlast an AMD machine? Or nVidia versus ATI for that matter? Oh that's right, nowhere.
As for processors producing flames and heatsinks flying off, overclock any processor, and take the heatsink off, machine will just pop to a black screen and it wont boot again, or will thermal throttle, try it on a pentium 4 or any other chip that has similar feature, take the heatsink off, system will still run just runs like dogsh*t. You won't have fancy smoke, fire, or even zaps of electricity. Anyone who has watched the video of the heatsink flying off the AMD chip from overclocking and thinks it can actually happen without added pyrotechnics needs to be commited to a mental hospital because you are seriously f*cked up.
The major items in your computer that can actually produce flames and/or make it catch on fire is your power supply, any VRMs(voltage regulation modules, not on the processor), and any shorts in your wiring such as bare wires. Definitely not a correlation between you using a AMD processor and ATI graphics card
So let's throw out the fanboy hub bub and get down to the facts here.
Very simple build, definitely not the 2700$ worth of fail that LGA775 system you pieced out. Have build it several times so far and have the parts for two more in the mail as we speak for customers.
AMD build? meh, better bang for the buck does lie in the i5/i7's, only reason I built one is because i got a 965 free at quakecon so it was a no brainer.
Samsung DVD Burner 20$Samsung 1 TB Harddrive 85$Core i7 920, definite improvement over the core2fail you have there, 289$OCZ 6 GB Triple Channel Kit, 130$Asus P6T, LGA1366 Board, Have liked Asus and have never had issues, board runs great and overclocks decently. 240$5870, Sapphire branded, great card, display port, DX11, what more can you ask for? :P 410$Corsair 650 Watt Power Supply, only real choice for power supplies :P 90$Cooler Master Scout, flip flop between this and HAF 922, depends on which is cheaper at the time :P 90$Total price of ~1350$ CHEAPER than your fail build and will run circles around it. Use the excess to buy a nice 24" monitor, keyboard, mouse, headphones.
Edit, whoops, posted my i7 parts list, if you want the i5 build that is a bit cheaper I can post that as well. Also will have a i3 system up and running tomorrow, going to see how these new chips run and overclock first hand.
Edited by Scroll_Lock88, 07 January 2010 - 10:39 PM.