1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Primarily gaming, some web surfing, watch movies occasionally, some C++ programming, some word processing/ms office for work, some fooling around with image editing programs/3d modeling programs (gimp, blender, etc.)...
Hi, I have a Sapphire X1900XTX and have just today removed the stock hsf and put a Thermaltake Silent Boost RX K8 (AM2, 939, 754) CPU hsf on it. It took some thought and work, but it was well worth it in the end. My temps have dropped about 10c idle and 10c+ on load. Maybe I'll post some...