Help meh with new computer por favor...

[Grits]

The i7 is barely any faster!!!!!!!!!! The only reason you perceive it faster (In all reality it really isn't) is because of the fucking Hyperthreading. It does multiple threads faster! That is it! Gaming will see maybe 1 or 2 fps.... Many other things will benefit if you plan on doing them though, IE: Video editing, encoding, transcoding, CGI, ect. As for the basic every day things, you won't see much difference at all. The chipset, RAM, and HDD (If using any instead of SSD) will bottleneck before you see any from the CPU, even with an i3. The utter stupidity of some of you is beyond my understanding. Honestly, wait for the Haswell to release in June and watch prices. The build you're thinking of now will be a decent amount cheaper, or you could go with the new. IMHO, I would wait it out a bit and be patient. You will regret it later if you don't. The performance boost (~10% over Ivy Bridge) and wait time will be well worth it. It's the tock (new arch) not the tick (shrinkage).

EVGA is an excellent brand with great upgrade options. I've found their customer support and RMA policies above par as well.

Appreciate the insults. I realize the differences between the dang i7 and i5. I've been in the business for a decade. In fact, I refurbed CPUs as a successful side business (Vitric Technology... yeah, sucky name) for years.

And, since you've decided to pick me as your target for whatever reason, XFX > eVGA, and your mom is a dirty whore! :-P

Anyway, you've got my .02, so good luck with the build, and above all else, make sure you enjoy it!

[Steamer]

Then you should know it technically isn't faster and (though I may have mistook how you meant it rereading your post[why I chose the quad over the dual years ago{the threading differences really do matter later on at a bottleneck depending what you are doing, E version was ridiculously overpriced at the time}]). Being in the CPU business, figure you would suggest the wait.

I've owned both. XFX customer support in my experiences (though its been a few years) sucked ass. The hardware is on equal terms. I've hit or miss clock/mem/shader speeds around all the same marks. The XFX 8800 GTS was beast in it's hayday. Customer service game me the run around getting warranty out of a 260, so that kind of led me to look elsewhere.