Quote Originally Posted by MiRai View Post
Could it have been more than a year ago? Intel's i7 2500/2600 were out 13 months
ago and the i7 920 came out in like Q4 '08
HA! Yes Sir, you are correct. I pulled the CPU from my old Dell for the build; it was my first venture into overclocking so I thought it would be best if I used the chip I had just in case I managed to fry the little bastard.

I went with your recommendation on the Crucial M4, the charts show it pretty much on par with the Samsung but its $60 cheaper. It's also twice the score of my old card and I'm sure way better than the HHD I'm using now. I also doubled the ram as you suggested. I decided to just go with what I already had in there since it's only 80 bucks right now. I think I'll just throw the old SSD into a laptop.

So now I'm up to the video card and based on what you wrote above I may wait until April. That being said I really don't want to change out my motherboard right now so I may either go with a videocard I can use, which I believe the 580 is PCI 2.0, and just replace my current card or I may get a replica of the one I have and try running it in crossfiremode. I've always wanted to try crossfire I just never have.

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2...ance,2932.html

Thanks again for the info. I'll start with this and then look at the video card options in the next month or two. Thanks again!