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JJMitchell:
Well Oblivion has gotten me to thinking about saving up some cash to upgrade my PC.

I'm looking for any recommendations on motherboards and processors.  I'm not looking to buy retail since I'd rather save up more money and get more for my dollar.

I'm completely comfortable building my own PC but realized looking at parts that I'm behind the times by a good year or more.  I'm leaning more toward Intel this time since the last AMD processor I got wasn't that much cheaper and the performance wasn't great.

I'm also looking for any sites that have benchmarks, reviews, etc that you folks use.  I'm reading some online but wasn't sure if anyone had any recommendations.

Lets try and keep this thread on track and no arguing which product is better without solid facts (benchmarks etc) to back it up.

I Am Not Amused:
Not the guy to be talking about benchmarks or anything like that, but I have built my own machine. I use newegg.com to buy parts. They're pretty reliable, put alot of info up on all the parts, have customer reviews and allow you to search very specifically for exactly the parts you want. I don't think they do much benchmarking (I don't think they overclock the video cards or anything like that) but if you find the parts you want independently, you can probably get them for a good price at newegg.

Sideways:
Well, You didn't discuss what price-range you were looking at, but I can tell you what I'd get if I didn't have price-restrictions:

Case

Motherboard with 2GB DDR RAM, which allows dual-video-card setup

Processor

and finally:
Two of these badboy 512MB vidcards

You'd probably be spending upwards of $4000.00 (CDN) on a comp setup like this, after throwing in a nice SATA-compatible HD, a DVDRW/CDRW combo and such... but MAN would that be a smokin' computer!!

Bastardous Bassist:
For reviews, I'd highly recommend Tom's Hardware.  You can google search it, but it might be www.tomshardware.com (it's been a while since I've looked).  I, too, will be building a computer before too long, but I won't have $4000, even if it is just that phony Canadian money.

JJMitchell:
My budget is fairly limited guess I should have said that.
I'm guessing its going to be months before I can buy all my stuff which is one of the reasons I wanted to ask for review sites, etc.

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