Imagine your best mate is starting a netcafe/gaming center.
He needs to buy something that has enough juice for todays and 2 years from now games e.g BF3, HalfLife3, etc..etc..
I was almost sure we'd get 50 machines with the AMD 3700+ (San Diego), but today there was a big drop in the price of D9xx series CPU's of Intel and they destroyed the plans and have to start thinking again.
Keep in mind:
a. there is NO overclocking
b. the machines will run 7900GT's
c. I would like to save energy/power consumption (PSU's will be 400W)
d. That's the top budget we can afford for CPU.. $220
and it would be really nice if in 2 years wouldn't need to change the M/B for a new chipset.
What would you advice your friend to do?
He needs to buy something that has enough juice for todays and 2 years from now games e.g BF3, HalfLife3, etc..etc..
I was almost sure we'd get 50 machines with the AMD 3700+ (San Diego), but today there was a big drop in the price of D9xx series CPU's of Intel and they destroyed the plans and have to start thinking again.
Keep in mind:
a. there is NO overclocking
b. the machines will run 7900GT's
c. I would like to save energy/power consumption (PSU's will be 400W)
d. That's the top budget we can afford for CPU.. $220
and it would be really nice if in 2 years wouldn't need to change the M/B for a new chipset.
What would you advice your friend to do?