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Processor | FX 8320 @4.2 | i7 2600 @3.8 | Xeon W3670 @ 3.6 |
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Motherboard | Asus Sabertooth R2.0 | Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe | Gigabyte X58-UD7 |
Cooling | Zalman Performa 10+ | Zalman Performa 11+ | Zalman Performa 10+ |
Memory | Crucial Ballistix Sport XT 32GB @ 1866 | Corsair Vengeance 32GB @1866 | Samsung 24GB @ 1600 |
Video Card(s) | XFX Radeon 390x | Zotac GTX 1070 AMP Extreme | Zotac GTX 980 AMP Extreme |
Storage | Intel SSD / SAS 15k Fujitsu | Intel SSD / Velociraptors / Hitachi 2TB | Intel SSD / Samsung 1TB |
Display(s) | Samsung 245T | HP ZR30w | IBM 20" 4x3 |
Case | Chieftec | Corsair Graphite 600T | Thermaltake Xaser IV |
Audio Device(s) | SB Titanium HD | SB Titanium HD | SB X-fi Elite Pro |
Power Supply | Thermaltake 875W | Corsair 850W | Thermaltake 1500W |
Mouse | Logitech | Logitech | Logitech |
Keyboard | Mitsumi Classic | Microsoft |Microsoft |
Software | W7 x64 | W7 x64 |W7 x64 / XP x32 |
Creative cards cost way too much IMO, because of their stance on drivers. I don't know any other company that abandons support completely just after a successor product releases.
Well, in first case Creative with SB Audigy 4 Pro, Elite Pro, E-MU 1820m/1616m and so on dropped market prices for "high end" sound 5-10 times, those 1 dollar DACs - CS4398 before them was used in ProTools studio hardware (cost 15-100k $) and audiophile grade receivers/external dacs (cost 5-15k $ each), for the rest of people DACs in even semiprofessional home studio hardware or 1k$ receivers was near the same AC97/HD Audio onboard, with a bit better surrounding electronics.
In second case agree completely, me waiting about 3-5 years for them to release proper Elite pro driver for W7...