Maybe I'll switch to PC
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I think it's fair to say intel motherboards cost more yeah dude, you'd be right to think so.
The CPU and mobo conpatibilty can be a right bitch. It's the 'socket' that's important.
Off the top of my head (so double check yourself) -
all intel i5 (not including the new gen 2500 / 2600) and the i7 860 are socket 1156
All intel i7 (not including i7 860) are socket 1366.The new generation -
i5 2500 / 2500k
and i5 2600 / 2600k
are socket 1155Kalkal seems to be a geek also!
Yeh I've heard amd try to change their sockets as little as possible to save the consumer money. Which is nice.I know that most current AMF chips are AM3 socket, but the next gen chips coming out soon require a AM3+ socket motherboard which you can buy now I think.
I'm tempted by an AMD system, just such a bargain and still very powerful.
People just get hungry for power on computers. I was doing 3D and heavy video editing on a 2gig ram (ddr2, current ram is ddr3 which is a lot better), dual core 2.33ghz laptop for my time at uni, up until sept. And it was sufficient, it was fine. Could have been faster but it was good enough.
Never forget with pcs the more you pay, the less you get. (for your money).