Mainly, because of the price.
The E8400 is gonna cost me about 250$CAD and is a CPU that can be easily overclocked
(And its a good CPU also) the cheaped i7 on newegg.ca is 359,99 on newegg.ca and if I go
with a i7, I'm going to go with a socket 1366 mobo wich is gonna cost about over 400$CAD
for anything decent.On top of that with a 1366 mobo you have to buy DDR3 RAM with cost
way more than DDR2 right now.
Also, this is gonna be my first built and I think its gonna be pretty decent, of course its using
somewhat older part,but I think its gonna do just fine (Especialy if i get the money to go 3-way sli)
What do you think ?