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well boo for me : / I plumped for an i7 rather than an i5 because I wanted those 4 cores and hyperthreading. I did however, without due care and attention buy a third-gen i7 3770, so the socket on the mobo is wrong, and I have to get another with LGA1155 socket. I had opened the box for the mobo...

Awesome, thanks so much. I did plump for the i7 sandybridge with the 16G of RAM. Most of the other parts were the same, a few offers had expired and I got a good Amazon deal on the OS. Other than that the parts all came from NewEgg.com. Ended up running at about $800 with the extra cpu and ram...

Let's say I wanted to bump up to the i7 and take advantage of 8 threads.. Would I then be better off with 16G of RAM, and could I use that same mobo ? Thanks so much ! :)

That sounds great, thanks so much for your response, AMD, I really appreciate it. !

Hello good folks of TH! I have a need to purchase some hardware this week, and hopefully I've nailed everything in the guide about requesting advice :) Thanks so much ! Approximate Purchase Date: This coming week. Budget Range: $600-750 System Usage: AfterFX, Cinema4d rendering, Photoshop...