02-06-2010, 07:08 PM
About the i9s - the next cpu generation by intel is called Westmere and is going to launch in Q4 2010. Dont know whether they're going to be called i9, but they should be able to work on exisiting X58 mainboards with an BIOS update.
About the videocards all i can say is that AMD cards might have a better performance per euro but the nvidia cards have imo other advantages that are worth the extra cash (like PhysX, CUDA, GPGPU, more advanced and stable drivers, awesome Linux support and last but not least that they have less problems and bugs in games due to Nvidia working together with (and supporting) game developers in their TWIMTBP-Campaign).
Everybody should decide on his own whats better for him, for myself i can say that i'd always go with an nvidia.
About the videocards all i can say is that AMD cards might have a better performance per euro but the nvidia cards have imo other advantages that are worth the extra cash (like PhysX, CUDA, GPGPU, more advanced and stable drivers, awesome Linux support and last but not least that they have less problems and bugs in games due to Nvidia working together with (and supporting) game developers in their TWIMTBP-Campaign).
Everybody should decide on his own whats better for him, for myself i can say that i'd always go with an nvidia.
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