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Originally Posted by zing
You could go with an i5?
You aint gonna get a new 8800GT you would be better off just using a 4870/90 imo(seen 4870's for <90 notes)
The Q8 are bottom end Quad cores not overly impressive
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The Q8s do perform very similar to the equivalent Q9s though. They are just missing some of the more advanced features such as Virtualization etc. I don't know if punky even needs those features, if not it may be worth taking the Q8, I know I'm looking at doing the same as I have little or no use for those features.
I recently bought an XFX 4870 on a build for one of my customers, phenomenal card, Maxed out settings with everything I could throw at it. In the end the CPU (E5200) caused the few slow downs I did see but that was down to budget limits and the existing hardware I had to work with.
I plan to buy one myself in a couple of weeks time for my new build ready for Windows 7.
EDIT: In fact after having a quick look the equivalent Q8s seem to outperform the Q9s in most benchmarks, though only marginally.