The I7 920 is the obvious choice here, it had huge overclocking headroom and paired with an excellent $40 air cooler it can be overclocked to 4.0 gz+. It's the exact same processor as the I7 965, it's just factory clocked lower. And is 1/3 the cost.  

On the other hand the Phenom II 940 is killer at the price and Newegg has some fantastic combo deals on it right now. Pair it with a 275 GTX (for the CUDA app) and $800 will buy a killer video conversion/processing system.

 

by spigzone on 07/23/2009 10:49:12 PM EST

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