Originally posted by bolo121
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You could though definitely re-use the case and dedicate the money saved toward more / better hardware. Probably the power supply as well.
As far as processors go, I'm sure you're aware that Intel has leapt about two light-years ahead of AMD. I think the e8400 is probably the best bang for the buck at the moment, but the i7s might become more competitive in price in the coming months. From what I understand, there aren't many programs that can fully utilize quad core processors at the moment so to me it seems to me to be a bit overkill, and in addition there are many aspects in which the fastest dual cores beat out the quad cores.
Things change so fast though I'd recommend checking back in July or August!;)
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