I'm planning on throwing a new system together and I just wanted to get some input. Budget is a factor but I'm not really in a rush.

I'm trying to decide if I want to step it up to the new I7's or stick with AMD.

Right now I'm looking at getting a Asus M3N-HT with a Phenom II X4 940 3.0Ghz.
or
an Asus P6T series with a 2.66 I7.

I've had good luck with Asus in the past, hence thats what I'm looking at. Thanks.

 

I was a die hard AMD fan for years, but they've really fallen behind.

Is this system meant for gaming? Check out AMD vs Intel benchmarks, because GHZ doesn't equal performance. In a gaming machine a good sized cache and pipelines are really going to matter. I've seen Intel smoke AMD in most benchmarks and still lose in gaming performance. Benchmarks are my best suggestion.

 

i would personaly go with the amp quad core, with the asus board, make sure you get some good ram to match the processor. but with the quad core you will need to get a bigger heat sink, or something like a mineral coolant to get a good o/c with out melting a core.

 

I'm a big AMD fan even if they have gotten soft lately on performance.

 

AMD has always been top notch, but Intel gets my vote this time. I've been an Intel user practically all of my life, and they're getting much better and in this case have surpassed AMD in quality.

 

AMD Phenom's might be the biggest fail in CPU technology ever.. I Use to be a Die Hard ATI fan and when the merged the ATI cars went to **** aswell...

Core 2 Duo's and Quad Cores are so powerful for the low clock speed they have...

 

Going with the I7 would be about $200 more for a similar board, both from Asus. A core 2 duo system wasnt really any cheaper, that I could see. I do some gaming but I'm not serious into it. I think I'm gonna go with this Board and this CPU. They're on sale on newegg for about $380 shipped.

 

from what I have read the new i7 is pretty awesome and is better than the comparative AMD. i would go with the new intel.

 

i7 >*