System 1 - 1366
Core i7 920 -$230 (8% NYS sales tax) MC
Evga x58 le -$200-$230 (8% NYS sales tax) MC
3gb of Gskill triple channel $100 (will be purchase of newegg no tax)
Total- approx $530
System 2 - 1156
Core i5 750 - $180 (8% NYS sales tax) MC
Evga p55 SLi - $200 (8% NYS sales tax) MC
4gb of Gskill dual channel $100 (will be purchase of newegg no tax)
Total- approx - $480 - $500
Gaming, Video rendering, photoshop,
Personally id say the x58 platform as you can always upgrade the ram to 6gb or 12 as your doing rendering it will help to have future expandability, also 1336 will support the new 6 core and 8 core cpu's when they are fully developed meaning that one mobo as long as the bios will support it will last you for years just like 775 did when core 2 came out.
iPad. Tis like a Notebook, and a Smartphone.
Sys 1
Get the X58, P55/1156 is GAY
Agreed, X58 is just better. System one all the way.
Well, "everyone" says X58... That's all I can say.
That's so arbitrary, what would you get?
Well after talking to a few people
and what not.
I decided to cross out 1366 completly for a few reasons
I dont think I will upgrade to 6 gigs anytime soon
Price after re configuring the systems i found out that 1366 will be the most expensive
So now I am btween core i5 750 and core i7 860
both using the same board and ram
there is only a $50 difference between the 860 and the 750
i7 860, don't get the i5.
Why does everyone hate the i5's?
they are terribad.. 965 is better than the i5 750
Then why not just get AMD anyway? It's cheaper, and honestly, all CPU's are good for is video editing. They'll soon lose that field too.
AMD 
the i7 860 offers so much more than amd ever will
That was ridiculous, AMD will of course eventually beat the i7. You also dodged the complete other half of the statement, what are CPU's good for these days? I don't find much use for mine other than Blender 3D.
what are CPU's good for these days?
It shows you obviously have no idea what you are talking about.
Do you render in HD?
Do you like using a computer?
You need a CPU to turn a PC on.
wait for the i7 930. not big a difference, but a 200 mhz higher clock speed. it should be out this month. god damned, i want to go ahead with my second pc, which would be my main one, an x58 system, but my god damned friends keep pushing me to get a 360. im not going to sell my current pc which would allow me to get a ps3 and a 360. only reason i would bother with a 360 is to see whats going on in live. get the gigabyte board which is sub 200 and has usb 3.0 and sata 6gb/s even though its blue.
Yeah thanks bro, didn't know that Atom's didn't turn on computers. Why bother spending hundreds on a CPU when the GPU does the mans job? Your sarcasm is garbage, keep it outta here.
What do you mean by render? That's a pretty arbitrary word don't you think? If by render, you mean decode, then my GPU does that too. If you mean edit, and then render the project, then the CPU does do that, for now. I'm sure CUDA could do it a lot faster.
Well IMO, a good statement for people who doesn't know what to post and ended up posting more bullshit that's getting them trolled later on.
(Meant to quote Bannanaz)
WAIT CPUS RENDER IN HD?
I THOUGHT MY MONITOR DID DAT
No point carrying on a falme war for no reason.