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Thanks, will look into Cosair and Antec PSUs. Any suggestions other than the Cosair 750, something in the ~$100 range?

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817339035 Newegg.ca has it for $99.99 today with free shipping down from $159.99 regular price. Is it a good PSU? Should I get it for my i5-750 @ 4.0Ghz with a 5870 and probably 1 more in crossfire? Thanks in advance.

Thanks a million, I'll definitely take some, if not most of your suggestions :) Cheers.

Thanks for the replies, after chatting with my friend he was wondering whether it'll be worth it to wait for Hex-core processors and the GTX480 and get something like the 5850 in the meantime?

Hi, I thought I was on top of the world when I built my i5-750 and 5850 setup. How very wrong was I. A friend of mine, quite wealthy, recently got addicted to Crysis. He said it looked better than real life, and fortunately has asked me to build him "The bestest ultimate gaming computer...

Some reviews: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3750 http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-5830,2564.html A quick summary for those of you too lazy to read everything: - It is identical to the 5870 in physical design, meaning at 11 inches, you won’t be able to fit...

Tessellation and advanced shadows from the DX11 screenshots look almost identical to the images from DX9. The only thing that wowed me was the water effects of tessellation from DX11, otherwise DX11 is garbage due to only slightly improved image quality but large performance impact.

Ahh I see, so out of those Everest temps, GPU Diode (DispIO), (MemIO), (Shader) GPU VRM, which one is the "GPU Temp" that reviews refer to?

At what FPS, 10?

Specs: Biostar T5 XE i5-750 @ 3.6ghz 4 GB XM3 DDR3 1600 HIS 5850 @ stock Seagate Baraccuda 750GB Now, I bought a Cooler Master H212 plus, and the i5 runs at 24C idle and 36C load, I'm loving it. Best $30 I've ever spent. I wish the same could be said for the Radeon, but it running...

For playing at 1080p, you should definitely get nothing less than a 5770. The 5670 or GTS250 will struggle at that resolution at any slightly eye-pleasing setting.

Rofl, how will the GTX285/275 "give me better gaming experience for the time being" when enabling 2x MSAA drops the average FPS to around 40 and min. FPS to around 20? I don't know about the reviewers, but I'd take smooth 60 min. FPS gameplay with no AA from the 5870 over 20 min. FPS gameplay...

Thanks, I'm happy with even stock performance as stock CPU/Video card settings runs everything on max as of now, so in this case I'll drop back stock speeds for both components and hopefully my PSU will last. In a year or two when I decided to crossfire, I'll get a better PSU so in the mean...

Thanks for all the replies. Got my 5850 and installed it, and also borrowed a watt meter from a floor mate. Here are the results: CPU - i5 - 750 20 x 200mhz = 4.0ghz, 1.368V, could probably go even higher with my 212 + cooler, temps at 54C under load right now. GPU - HIS Radeon 5850...

Hm thanks, I'll remember to stay away from OCz. Now I guess, the better question is, what is the most powerful card that I run with my current PSU? 5770? 5750? 5830 when it comes out in a few days? I've seen people run 4890 and 4870 with i5-750 on worse PSUs, so that's why I thought I could...

Thanks for the replies, in that case I'll get a new PSU. What do you guys think of this one? OCZ ModXStream Pro 600W, Dual 12V Rails 30A x 2 http://www.directcanada.com/products/?sku=13220AC8686&vpn=OCZ600MXSP&manufacture=OCZ%20TECHNOLOGY Will it handle 5850 crossfire? I'm really limited on...

Disabling Gadgets and turning off Aero improved FPS by about 5-8. Yes it was a completely clean install, I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit with all the latest updates and latest drivers from Nvidia as well. And of course, the settings I'm running the games on are the same as before. This...

According to this benchmark http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=3666&p=14 Windows 7 is supposed to have better gaming performance than Windows XP. However, upgrading from XP to Win7, Fallout 3 performance has dropped from 45avg FPS to 16 FPS!!! I have all latest updates...

Currently running: Biostar T5 XE i5-750 @ 3.4ghz no voltage tweak on stock Cosair XMS3 DDR3 1600 Evga 7900GS (from old setup) Seagate Barracuda SATAII 750GB Maxtor Diamondmax IDE 250GB Enermax Noisetaker 485W PSU (18A dual 12V rails, 32A total) Looking to get a Radeon 5850 this week...