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Originally Posted by jayrc
wanting to upgrade so bad, I don't want to buy something then regret it, right now I'm trying to decide on the i5 2500k or the amd 6 core. If Clod is going to use 6 cores should I go with the amd? I don't have an unlimited budget. I was actually thinking of spending 300 on a 5850 gpu and corsair tx 750 psu for now till prices on everything else drops and some definite answers as to what hardware works best. Would like to hear from as many people as possible, this will be my first build and I really need some advice
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I5 2500k, but I would strongly recommend you go for a i7 instead for the extra threads, or if money is an issue for the a Nehalem i7-950 instead of the SB cpu which includes the price of a onboard gpu you wont use.
(The i7 has 8 threads where i5 has 4, even if Clod only uses 4 threads than the extra ones can be used to run your OS/background programs and will help your performance. In the future if they add more threads to Clod you will also be coverd in that case).