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I'm thinking of buying a computer and my budget is around $1500 but not set in stone. Should I buy the core i7 860 or wait for the core i9 gulftown and buy it when it comes out? I hear the core i7 is going to be a very expensive processor so maybe it's not worth the wait?

Im planning to buy a z30 computer from velocity micro: http://velocitymicro.com/wizard.php?iid=186. I have an option to pick a core i7 860 8mb and a core i7 860 hyperclocked. I thought all core i7 860 have 8mb of cache. If i picked a core i7 860 hyperclocked, how many megs of cache i would get...

Okay, so the follow up question is when the next high-end card coming out for nvidia?

I know this is probably an over-asked question but i want to buy a new graphics card so i can play the latest PC games at pretty good resolution and FPS. But i'm worried that it may not be a good investment since mid-range cards are only Directx 9. Should i buy a card like the Nvidia 7950gt...