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Oh if you're not building for a couple months then yeah you may as well check out prices then because there's new cpu's coming out and things like that. The latest ATi lineup isn't that bad by the way. They are cheap for the performance too. Good luck with the wait
After a quick look on Newegg I came up with this for you. You can always leave out the harddrive if you want but it is a very fast drive and as most people know, your pc is as fast as your slowest component. This is with an ATi graphics card though because at the moment they are the best bang...
Why don't you just play a bit less? Sounds like you're into it a bit too much man. I usually only play on the weekend. Usually in the morning for like 1-2 hours. Other than that I have no time I'm at uni all day.
Yeah I have 2 x 1gb of corsair CL5 ram and I get 5.9. I thought that having the AMD memory controller thingee would make a difference? It annoys the hell out of my flatmate who has 2 x 2GB corsair CL4 and only gets like 5.6 on vista. He has a Q6600..
Don't know if this is a stupid idea or not but are you sure it's not the monitor? Or that you are getting the right drivers for that card? Try the ones off the cd maybe? You are right, that power supply should be more than adequate. Hope you find the solution, TF2 rocks we just had a 10 person...