Advice needed! ( No couch required )

Yes I know i'm beyond help ( mentally ). I have been browsing the forums and doing many Ebay searches and pricewatch checks. Right now my 6860 is fast enough to play all the games I have very smoothly with no complaints! ( COD4, FlightSim X , CS Source ) But I have the Tim Taylor complex and have the urge to upgrade the cpu to the best possible. At first glance I see the X9000 ( 2.8ghz 6mb ) is the best of the best. But there's some question about heat/power issues. And overclocking since it's the extreme, a thread I saw said 3ghz was the highest us 6860 users could get.

First, my options:

1. X9000 6mb cache 2.8ghz > 3ghz?
2. X7900 4mb cache 2.8ghz > 3ghz?
3. T9300 6mb cache 2.5ghz

T9300 is a no brainer, but the quest for ultimate power lays in the hands of the X7900 and X9000. Price is not the issue since most can be found on ebay for around the same price ( +/- 50 bucks ).

Second, the only place I can find an X9000 or X7900 is ebay and just about every one of them comes from China. And it seems most are engineering samples. So one part of me says get the t9300 since I know it works with no issues and I can get a retail box from newegg. But the "jump out of a plane with no chute hooyah!" side says go for gold ( bye bye bling bling ) with the X9000.

So, any ideas and thoughts are greatly appreciated and requested!

Thanks!

"Submariners do it DEEPER" "Best Marine is a Submarine Ahrooooga!"

 

Well ill throw my 2 cents in i bought a t9300 for mine i love it and it performs much better over the stock one. Now with that said do i regret not buying an ES x9000 ? yes somedays i do but for the same reasons of wanting the full power this machine could have had . How much real world gaming performance it would have brought? ill never know but in hindsight i would have gone the ES route no questions asked. So do yourself a favor and grab your pack with no chute in it and just jump maybe youll get lucky and land in an ocean.

 

for gaming your gpu is still going to be the bottleneck so...ya save yourself the money lol

 

The T9300 is enough

 

Yes. The T9300 is MORE than enough. That is if you don't attempt to sand the core off.

 

Yeah yeah yeah, blame me on my first time ever using a laptop, I'm used to having a plate to put paste on.

 

lol! i have a feeling he is never going to be allowed to forget this.

 

of course not....we're not that nice. but i'm sure he'll be using the baby oil to ease his frustration.

 

Baby oil? Bah! Real men use termolene!! (spelling?)

 

LOL. I don't wanna make the man commit suicide, so I'll probably only bring it up once or twice a day.

 

lol

anyway i am sooooooooo happy with my x7800 ES
best bang for the buck by far
just dont expect it to run @3.0ghz 24/7