Building My Own PC

[Furunculus]

I think audiophiles would be concerned about shielding and interference of audio signals in a noisy PC case, never mind digital processing of sound.

it is a shielded card.

Yes six cores are pretty. But, most apps are barely optimised for two cores, let alone 4 or even 6. I'd rather not shell out an additional $100 for overkill. I'll have to upgrade in 2-3 (4-5 if I'm a cheapskate) years regardless.

It's more than $100 price difference here. I currently don't have any games that'd demand more than what a single 5770 can produce, so again, I'd rather not go overkill. I'm looking for best bang for buck. I am a student after all. I have the money to do so, but I'd rather not and have it for a rainy day/future purchases. When the time comes to upgrade the prices on the 5770 will have dropped and I can get a significant boost for a small outlay.

fair enough, but the difference between 965 and the 1055T is less than twenty percent, a factor that will shrink further with the arrival of the 1045T, and with its Turbo mode it will still run nearly as fast as the 965 on poorly threaded workloads. not to mention awesome overclockability, mine runs at 3.6GHz normal (4GHz Turbo) without ever getting over 43c, and that is without any bios tweaking.

makes sense i guess.