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#1 frost_mourne13
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Well, some people don't understand that there is a business of other people building a computer for you and making a living from that. It also costs more because someone else that is payed to help is your computer service, and make sure there ISNT 3500 wasted. I just hope this doesn't turn into a flame war again. I respect other people's choices to buy a prebuilt system, and I would lean either way.
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By the time Crysis comes out this year, R600 will be here and so will Phenom FX, X4 and X2.
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Maingear recommends the 1K watt PSU for the SLI GTX's. The problem is that I don't know how good that 750W/1000W PSU is.
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Ok on Oblivion at 1600 x 1200 with all settings on high

1 GTX can get 32.5 FPS 

2 GTS can get 44.5 FPS.

The GTS will cost something like $200 more than the GTX.  

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is 2x 8800 GTS 640mb a good one or go futher up warplacebo

2 GTS's ain't they'll still kill most games out there. What I think is that, if you're going to spend lots of money on a rig like that, might as well go balls out and get the best there is, within limits, you know? Granted, 2 GTS's are very good, but 2 GTX's are better. 

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Pretty much, yes. The only thing better than a 8800 is 2 8800's. Add that with a QX6700 Quad Core processor and 2-4GB of RAM, and you have a absolutely killer rig.
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#7 frost_mourne13
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IMO, the Core 2 Duo E6600 is fine. For the QX6700, they might be able to bring it to the vaunted 3.47GHz 'cuz of the multiplier and all, which gives you 4 Cores that run a 3.47GHz. Very fast, but I would only recommend it if you're going to pair it with 2 GTX's  in SLI. otherwise, keep your system balanced by having one GTX and a E6600. IMO that's well balanced.
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Yeah, usually they go down. Must be drivers? or someone gave the computer some e-HGH
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#9 frost_mourne13
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I meant, "Duo" not "Duoo".
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Lol. =D. Ok, It'll take a while for them to get it to you, just to let you know. They make sure every part works, then they do a burn in.

Well, for your build, intel is better, but I think I spied on the main page that AMD gets free shipping. Anyway, if you choose the overclock option, you're going to get a higher overclock from intel Core 2 Duoo processors