(21/05/2010 08:12 AM)ProperBritish Wrote:  You'll need a 700-800W PSU to be comfortable, mine is by OCZ and is modular to save space.

PSU wattage is one of the most overrated things ever.  Pretty much nothing needs a 800W PSU, you'll be able to run it on something like a 500W just fine.

Don't waste the money getting some 800W PSU that costs almost as much as your CPU, those are for people with i7 980 extreme + 2x HD5870 crossfire setups.  Or dual Xeon workstation setups.

PSU calculator  ==> http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

(21/05/2010 04:32 AM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  But otherwise, I wouldn't go higher than an i7 860, though an i5 750 is like 65% of the price and only a tad bit slower (2.8GHz vs 2.66GHz, lacks turbo boost and hyper threading).

Turbo boost is useless if you're overclocking, and hyper-threading at most only gives ~20-25% performance, at the best of circumstances (x264 /w --threads auto, 12 threads).  Most of the time (any time your not using more than 4 threads) you probably won't get any performance increase at all with it.

(This post was last modified: 21/05/2010 07:24 PM by Assassinator.)