lol... I give good examples for i7 when you say PII, and I give good examples for PII if you say i7...
As I said, I am very undecided... i7 is top of the line, I will probably have a better time with it, have more fun OCing it, will help in anything else then gaming, will game very good, and looking at the architecture and all, it seems it will outlast a PII by a good margin
For PII 955 vs i7, I'd go i7 for sure since you don't really save a lot of money going PII...
Yes it will game the same, but won't future GPUs need more CPU power later on? on top of that, x58 has the choice of both xfire and sli... which is nice since I have absolutely no preference between Nvidia or ATI...
"I'm sure even when multiple threaded games are standard the Phenom II and i7 will be a distant memory." but the PIIs are multiple threaded too! but this point is the main reason I'm hesitating... When I will need more CPU power, will i7 still be in mid-range or so?
Also, i7 seems to handle multi-GPU setups well...
wtf idk what to do lol