[Patch]

If you have gobs of cash burning a hole in your pocket, picking up one of the $1700 32nm i7 quads is the easiest way to get global wprime scores. WR's still aren't easy, but you are competing against all the 45 nm quads and can crush them for their global boints.

1156/clarkfield setups and some LN2 will get you global wprime 32, wprime 1024 and pi 1M.
980x is the ticket for Global pi, pifast and pi32.

E8600/Rampage Extreme/and GTX 280/285/275 lightning are the ticket for 3D01 globals.

A stellar 980x and a great 5870 or GTX 480 are necessary for AM3, 3D06, 3D05 and Vantage.

A good GTX 480 is the ticket for 3D03. A great 980x or E8600 is very helpful, but not as crucial as it is for AM3, 05, 06 and Vantage.

Significant global points generally require money, subambient cooling, voltmods, dead hardware, and an endless hunt for cherry GPU's and especially CPU's.

[RomDominance]

Originally Posted by Patch

Significant global points generally require money, subambient cooling, voltmods, dead hardware, and an endless hunt for cherry GPU's and especially CPU's.

I have cycled through 6 retail 980x's thus far just looking for one that will do 3d at 6GHz+, the seventh arrives thursday. If this was the sarcastic part of the post I would have to differ....I don't think I could have said it any better than patch did in the entire post. To boil it down, if you get a 980x (preferably a B or F batch), a decent gtx480, a RE3 mobo, a cpu and gpu pot and some good ram, you should be good for at least 200-300 global I would think.

Best of luck, and we are always here ready to assist if necessary.