my friends build list he wants the masters opinion not mine(i dont blame him)

[J03]

Say's he who is buying a Top of the range quad core processor

 

[muz]

Yeah if you cant afford both just get a dual core than get a better GPU as there is no point having a quad core but a poor gpu as over all game performance would be bottlenecked by the graphics
As for what gpu to get well any 8800 card would be fine .If you cant a afford a 640MB model just get a 320MB as it will still be a very capable card
If he isnt planning to overclock you could take that cooler away and use the stock and then put the money from the cooler to a GPU
As for the raptors they are expensive per gigabyte compared to other hard drives but they perform much better in benchmarks i dunno about real life situations and so i would say if they are within your budget range definatly get one

 

[0v3rc10cl0ck3d]

so for cpu how bout a e6750 and a gpu hows a eVGA 8800GTS 320MB 500MHz

 

[mammikoura]

that vid card would be great

 

[muz]

Sound better . At the moment a e6600 should be able to play most if not all games on the market at high and prolly will be able to for a while so the e6750 should also be able to . As for that GPU that is fine . ALso not everything is fully optimised for dual core yet and so quad core is going to be even less supported

 

[0v3rc10cl0ck3d]

well we were both looking at the e6750 cuz the 1333mhgz fsb i cant rememebr the cache on the e6600 but the e6750 has a 4 mb l2 cache

 

[Celegorm]

the normal E6600 has 4MB l2 cache as well.

 

[ownage]

and higher multiplier. So when you make it the same FSB, it means a faster processor.

 

[TRDCorolla1]

If you guys want to go cheap, might as well suggest him an E6400 and a 7000 series nvidia GPU, lol.