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Hello All - I was hoping for some advice. I am currently running a 3570k (evo 212 fan, asrock z77 board) and a powercolor myst 7870 (stock crap fan) in an old Antec Sonata II case and i'm running to serious overheating issues. Single HDD, single GPU, light overclocking on the processor. I...

Thanks for the advice - the other question I had, is am I CPU bound (generally?) - IE, am I going to see a greater increase in speed going from an overclocked e6750 to say a Q9550 or by going HD 4850 to HD 6850? (assuming i'm not willing to redo the mobo/memory/cpu to go to an i7)

I'm playing at 1680x1050 too - on a ASUS 4850 TOP (OC'd) card thats got a fan assembly thats been going for a while and doesn't like to warm reboot sometimes. I've been considering snagging a 6850 or a 6870, and i'm not sure if the 6870 is worth the price change. I'm running e6850 @ 3.4Ghz 4GB...