@SlasherMan: I thought it was something like that it's been awhile since I read up on them as I have no job right now and i wanna upgrade my current q6600 system to an I7 860 it makes me sad everytime I look at them, only game i've seen that recommends an I7 is empire total war and it's the sole reason I want one too as after 150+ turns on a standard quad the a.i turns can take 2-5mins to complete.......not really fun spending that much time doing jack but your right. also cant the I series cores communicate with each other at a cpu to cpu level so they can spread the loads out between themselves? very handy if you run multiple monitors with multiple apps.
@newfound: off the top of my head the I5 are just standard quad core but the I7's are quads with true hyperthreading meaning 8 logical cores as oppsed to 4 so for encoding editing etc the I7 is the way to go for sure (don't quote me on that though) , also noticed on the one your mate offered to build there was no OS so unless you have one thats an extra 100+ off the bat. In my case with my sister the deciding factor was that she got a discount off the dell. this is a fairly meaty article giving a rundown of the I series cpu's http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i5,2410.html
this is a double edged sword, I recently offered to build my sisters new gaming rig with I7 etc but she settled on the studio xps and i gotta admit after setting it up for her and quickly cracking on crysis it's a pretty solid machine, xps service line has always worked fantastic for me if I've ever had problems with a previous machine I owned. Of course it's upgradable too and the link for the dell didn't show all the options you customised before your buy if it's the baseline machine upgrade that 240gs and you should be good to game..
glad to hear you got it woking, my personal way too stress test is install one of my favourite games and smash it for a few hours. No crashes means everything should be fine enjoy.
husky for the wolf like eyes but a dog i could actually afford would be a mongrel as they are the smartest imo as they don't have generations of repeated dna being recycled...it's science man
hmm first thing i'd try is craking open the case reseat all the cables and components then try again if that doesn't work seems like a job for google because it could be any number of things.
Edit: Also if you have the old CPU to hand try re-installing that if everything works fine it sounds like you got a dead one,it's rare but it happenes, when i got my first 8800 i tried for hours to fix it just to find it was fooked before i even got it.
guns of the patriots is still as good as i thought it was, you did make some fair arguments but too most I simply thought of my opinion of it. Whilst biased just like yours is, it would take at least a full day of preparation, thought and good communication in the written word (the last of which i am severly lacking in) to make a suitble reply too this diatribe. However it was worth a read and very well put together.
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