we've seen pictures of your humidor, of you smoking.....lets see your pc/desk

[Silencei2]

My current computer specs:

Motherboard and Processor:
Rampage III Extreme
Bitspower NB & SB Waterblock
Intel Core i7 970 Hexacore running at 4ghz stable
XSPC Rasa v2 CPU Waterblock

RAM:
Kingston HyperX DDR2000 (6 x 2gb)
Running at 2000mhz

Video:
EVGA GTX460 in SLI
Koolance GTX460 waterblocks for both GPUs

Power:
Corsair AX1200 PSU

Cooling:
Laing DDC Waterpump w/ Bitspower mods
2 x 120mm Radiator

Storage:
2 x 120gb Sandforce 1200 Solid State Drives (GSkill and OCZ)

(Externally kept in 2 enclosures hooked up via ESATA)
3 x 2tb Western Digital Black Drives
3 x 1tb Western Digital Black Drives
(Yes, I use more than half of that space)

[buzz]

My current computer specs:
...

Um, wow. Very nice. Wow.

-Buzz

[Mangyrat]

Silencei2 that is one hell of a nice set up

I'm thinking of building one of the AMD 6 core systems on the cheap due to the cost of the Intel Core i7's but do you think the i7's are that much better for gameing?
Im kind of at a stand still till i decide on a CPU.
All i do is game and surf the net.

[Silencei2]

Silencei2 that is one hell of a nice set up

I'm thinking of building one of the AMD 6 core systems on the cheap due to the cost of the Intel Core i7's but do you think the i7's are that much better for gameing?
Im kind of at a stand still till i decide on a CPU.
All i do is game and surf the net.

As far as gaming goes, you really don't need to go with more cores. A good quad or dual core will do fine as most games don't utilize all those cores very well.

As far as AMD and Intel goes, if you're looking for a great budget gaming rig AMD takes the cake. I've been using Intel for the past 3 iterations of my computer. The last AMD processor I used was a x2 4400. Since then I have managed to get great deals on the processors from Intel which perpetuates my loyalty for them. I know plenty of gamers who have gone the AMD route and haven't been dissapointed.

[Mangyrat]

I'm still running a 4 year old Q6600 @ 3.2 ghz 8 Gig ram and a ATI 5850 in my game system and have not found a game i cant run decently even in surround gaming.

But I'm getting that itch to build again.
I haven't updated my CPU's in a while so i was wondering how AMD was working out for gaming.

Back when i went with the Q6600 every one was saying you don't need a quad core for gaming but it worked out great in the long run.