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Or he'll be ridiculed by his friends because he didn't spend a few dollars more on a GTS 250 or a 4850. ;) I'd say this system is far more harmful to PC gaming than the GT 220: http://www.ebgames.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=76104 I mean seriously? A laptop with a GMA 4500 being...

Especially when you consider the fact there's the HD 4850 1 GB for $5 more, and the 9800 GT 1GB is $10 more. The sad thing is that there will still be people that will buy it.

I noticed that too. Apparently TD is trying to take advantage of people that still think the Canadian dollar is only worth less than 80 cents US. Very cold. :mad:

Just announced this week: Core 2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz $213 ----> $183 Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.50GHz $213 ----> $183 Core 2 Quad Q8400 2.66GHz $183 ----> $163 Core 2 Quad Q8300 2.50GHz $183 ----> $163 Core 2 Quad Q9400S 2.66GHz $277 ----> $245 Core 2 Quad Q8400S 2.66GHz $245 ----> $213 Core 2...

All I can say is I wish I had your luck Roland! As for your situation, I would sell the 4670 & one of your 4890s and set the cash aside for the DX11 cards which are coming out in a few months. Dual 4890s are more than enough power to handle today's games at 1920X1080 (at least from my experience).

On my crossfire 4890 boards I get: 20509 3Dmarks SM 2.0 Score 7560 SM 3.0 Score 10543 CPU Score 5358 The score is somewhat disappointing, but it's an old benchmark now and not reflective of today's hardware. However, these babies can play Crysis @ 1920X1200 with 4XAA smoothly, and...

If this is NVIDIA's solution to the name changes they are doing a poor job. Now they're coming out with a 9800GTX+ to make this more confusing. Look for the EVGA 9800GTX+2=6 #$#@&$#^ Akimbo GT SSC KO OC^2 Ultra "Place your ad here" Edition 2b this fall.

Like Danny Bui said Riva Tuner can help with the fan speed. Most of these cards have the fan running at only 29% and I find that makes the board quite hot. GPUs however are designed to take a lot of heat so I wouldn't be too concerned for now. Raising it to 55% shouldn't be that noticeable...

You can grab a 9600GSO for a Ben Franklin on Newegg, but I'd spend just a bit more and get a 8800 GT. The 8800GT isn't one of the hottest selling performance cards for nothing, and you have the beauty of adding a second card later on if you choose (you'd have to change your power supply though)...

The first video card I bought was a Cirrus Logic 1mb card to replace a 512KB Trident board. Big waste of money but I learned my lesson and made wiser choices in video cards later on. My video card history: Trident 512KB Cirrus Logic 1MB Ati Rage Pro 8MB Ati Rage Pro 8MB + Voodoo 2 12MB...