About to pull the trigger: GTX470 or 5850

470 is 10% faster, and does not have the severely "brilinear" AF problem found on ATI's 5xxx cards.

If you're into aftermarket coolers like I am, then the 470 would be a quiet and cool card that can overclock even more. There are some versions out there with special coolers already.
 
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Yes, 90%+ of games, but nowhere near 90%+ of the games you will actually want to play these days...

Just Cause 2, Bad Company 2, GTA 4, and many others not only utilize four cores, but completely suck on two cores.

Every other day on these forums someone is whining that their C2D setup with a brand new GPU is disappointing in performance. They are surprised to see that ludicrous overclocks haven't overcome the basic limitation of their obsolete 2-core CPU.

C2D is outdated. It doesn't play nearly as smoothly as a quad-core in many modern games.
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Fair point, but can you recommend spending more money for a Socket 775 proc when it's a dead platform and Intel hasn't cut prices on the old chips?
 
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