Hmmmmm 

For you?  Midrange...  You won't be hapy with anything less....

New TV?  Get both.. just buy a monitor that can do both jobs. 

Wait for the Barcelona.........  

 

Can't afford either so one or t'other is pushing it 

Though I have got the wife to see the plus side of building a quad...............energy/space savings.

But she knows me.........that I'll end up having yet another rig instead of 3 less 

My wife gave up bitching at me a long time ago.........

Cheap option:

Q6600.
Abit IB9
2GB Adata PC5300.

£237.

Favoured option:

Q6600. (GO stepping)
Gigabyte GA P35C-DS3R.
Geil Ultra DDR2 2.0GB PC6400

£315.

@ Bigbear, wife not really moaning......just trying to get bearings on bill costs at the new house..........stupid electric cooker doesn't help.

As I am not an extreme overclocker I wonder if the extra £11 for the GO stepping is worth bothering with.

A third option would be a cheapish matx board with onboard video...........

Who are you lying to ??  

 

Grrr, need to add £30+ for a decent heatsink 
Could use a nice case for it too really 

Oh, and a PCI Express graphics card.

Oh dear, it's starting to add up 

Must admit, sometimes I envy the "normal" folk who don't run dc.........they can afford to have a single uber rig, instead of my "make do and mend" o/c rigs 

just a little more fsb...

think of all the money you have spent on computers in the last 10 years.............  

don't go there.

You got's it backwards there pup...  You build them for what you want them to do...  If they can also crunch that's just a plus.

Limit yourself to a max number of running rigs. and when your slowest one hits that number it falls off the operational list and gets "donated" to someone else.

I've set myself a limit of 4 max running rigs.  Means I've got allowance for one more on the strikeforce.. Might as well be a quad. 

I set a limit due to heat.......too many computers makes the house warm......

I voted you run the singles into the ground so you can save up for what you really want.

Pup is right on this one...it costs a lot less to run a dual........

But how long would the singles have to run to cost that?

Not long. GP not long at all. 

You know your going to want to OC it..

Well, if they're that expensive to run, I withdraw my vote. But I'd still get rid of them and pocket the cost until I could buy the new rig.

It is a combo of a lot of factors......they use less power, create less heat, and do more bang for the buck........

Pup, definately go for the GO - it uses less power, runs cooler and hence OC's far better - many are getting it from 2.4Ghz to 3.5Ghz on air really easily, and still getting good temps at 100% load 

Get either that Gigabyte DS3R board, or the Asus P5K - and add the new smaller and cheaper, but still excellent Thermalright Ultima-90 heatsink.

In fact I can probably let you know by the end of tomorrow how it performs, as I have one sitting here ready to build   

SomeOne has been busy lately........

I build to o/c and crunch.............running "programmes" is a plus 
Ady..........Had already decided on the Gigabyte, only mentioned the Abit cos of the "bundle" price..........but I think that's one of the Abits that has cold boot issues.

Asus..........ugh. 

Won't be overclocking much cos that means serious cooling/noise and I'm getting tired of the noise.

It's funny, I spend quite some time at silent pc review..........if they knew the racket that surrounds me they'd have a coronary 

Hi GP  ..........One also has to factor in savings made by "recycling" parts from the older rigs.....hard disc and such.