It's upgrade time. Need input.

[madmattco]

Well its tax time and refunds are being given out everywhere.

As such it is time for me to upgrade my (x) year old rig.

My selection is currently as follows:

Newegg.com - ASUS Crosshair IV Formula AM3 AMD 890FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

Newegg.com - SAPPHIRE 100290SR Radeon HD 5870 (Cypress XT) 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Eyefinity 6 Edition Video Card

Newegg.com - Rosewill Xtreme Series RX750-S-B 750W Continuous @40°C ,80 PLUS Certified, ATX12V v2.2 & EPS12V v2.91, SLI Ready CrossFire Ready, Active PFC "Compatible with Core i7, i5" Power Supply

2 Newegg.com - CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9

Newegg.com - AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz 6 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor HDT90ZFBGRBOX

I know this rig will do well with boxing but I am curious to know if anyone out there has used one of the Eyefinity 6 cards and how they preform.

Let me know what you think.

BTW I dont think this setup is bad for less than $900

[Tim]

I would definitely go the Intel route. Right now Intel blows away any of the AMD PCs by far. I'm not talking by a little, I'm talking Intel CRUSHES AMD incredibly.

Get the Intel 2600K, my benchmarks showed it to be nearly 3x as fast as the AMD 6 core.

[madmattco]

I was looking at going that route but was wondering if all the sandy bridge mobo's were affected by the recall

[Tim]

It was the CPUs not the Mobos, but all of those were already recalled. Newegg pulled all the broken CPUs and only sells the new ones I'm pretty sure.

[madmattco]

any good recommendations?

[Tim]

On the Mobo? Definitely go Gigabyte. I have somewhere around 8 systems, ranging from Q9650 to 2600k to I7 980 Extreme, they have been faultless for me. Plus the dual-bios system is awesome for overclocking. UD6F Gigabyte ones are awesome.