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From what I read, the first "Zambezi" Bulldozers will be AM3 compatible, but there's talk of a "Fusion" 8-core that will be a whole new socket. All of that is speculation, as far as I know.

I've got a pair of the XFX Radeon HD 5770 XXX overclocked cards for about $170 each. I tested each one individually before connecting them Crossfire-style, and they have worked well individually and together. I have the "brick" cooling option, and they run cool enough at 100% load and 40% fan...

I'm looking forward to Dead Space 2, Starcraft 2, and Portal 2. In the meanwhile, there's not enough time to catch up on all the good and great games that have come out in the past year or two.

That almost 100% has to be it. Those temperatures would leave his PC smoking if they were accurate.

Yeah, a hole saw should work. Just make sure that you have the panel clamped down well, and if there's any way you could lube up the whole operation you should try that. If you go slow and steady and have some sort of lubricant going, you should be able to cut through the panel and leave a...

That's just... I don't even know. Are you sure you're not reading temp in Fahrenheit? I've got a Phenom II X4 965 and it idles at 26-28C. Overclocked to 3.96 on air it doesn't go over 54C at full load.

I'd avoid the 5830 if it were my money. I've heard that it is close in performance to the 5770, but uses more power than a 5850.

If your system is sort of not "up to date" and such, maybe you should consider buying a 4870 or even 4890? The performance will be about the same as a 5770, or even better in some applications. Plus, I think some of the negatives about the 5770 come from people trying to run a new card on an old...

Maybe this is a good place to mention Tom's Hardware's Graphics Card Hierarchy Chart? They would call a GTS 250 or a Radeon HD 4850 or 5750 as being roughly equivalent. Those are all in the $120-150 range. A Radeon HD 5770 would give you a little boost for maybe $20-30 more.

I would suggest going as big as your budget will allow. More power supply than you need means that it should run cooler and last longer. If you need 550W of power to run your system, and you buy a 650W PSU, you're looking at running at 85% capacity. With an 850W PSU you're at 65%, and with a...

I'm running Crysis at that resolution on a pair of HD 5770s at high settings and getting smooth framerates, and at very high settings I only see a little bit of lag on the busy parts of the game. I mean, if you have $430 to spend on a video card, feel free to get whatever you want. If you...

It depends on how good you are at mounting, whether you remove the motherboard from the case to mount the cooler, and which cooler you're talking about. I bought a Cooler Master Hyper TX3 and the mounting bracket let the cooler slide around probably a good half inch in either direction. You...

I guess 11 if you count the power supply and GPU fans? 4x 120mm 2x 140mm 1x 200mm 1x92mm on the CPU cooler

Just out of curiosity, what case are you working with?