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Im upgrading to a EVGA P55 FTW Motherboard, A intel Core i5 750, and 4gig of G.Skill 1600mhz 7-7-7-20.

Im going to try to get 4ghz out of the i5, but i'll settle for 3.6ghz.

Nvidia are indeed in the s++t unless they bring out very powerful DX11 cards for a decent price, IMO they would have to drop the prices of the GT200 series alot aswell.

AMD look to gain a big market share in the mainstream GPU market.

only time will tell if Nvidia have completely lost this round, have to wait to see what the GT300 series brings.
Personally I don't care, i know what i want and thats 2x 5850's in crossfire with Thermalright HR-03 GT's


Cant wait to see some DX11 games.


So when are you planing on getting your 5850???

i don't know. but this is bad for nvidia because they have lost the enthusiasts really? ATI appealing at the mainstream market, but for a fact now ATI have better performance than NVIDIA, ATI surely is a better enthusiast graphics card. Especially since they are cheaper. ATI have beaten where NVIDIA are good at, so i don't know what to say about NVIDIA now lol.

but the whole point now is that ATI have brute performance, and are brilliant value. So what does it say about NVIDIA thats what i'm saying. you're saying that they havn't come out with a new better gpu because partly of the recession? Has slowed them down? So if it wasn't for the recession then NVIDIA would probably have better cards out than ATI do?!?

How would it be the extreme performance market now, for their cards? ATI have smashed Nvidia's single best gpu card despite they havn't smashed the GTX 295. To be honest it is about the most effective cards, which are the best overall. Working on both performance, energy efficiency, cost and size. ATI's effectiveness wins would you say? ATI possibly have more advantages over NVIDIA or their cards are more ballanced in terms of specifications. NVIDIA only really have more performance. But even with the GTX 285 and ATI 4890 and the 4870x2 and the GTX 295 ATI were still very close to NVIDIA in performance. Lol 290 FPS as opposed to 320 FPS in some games comparing GTX 295 and 4870x2. Taking ATI's energy efficieny into account and smaller cards, ultimately ATI could be argued to be better.

top of the forum is a thread on the 5770

yeah sure spectra9, I've got a cold atm, but i'll take some photo's later today or tomorrow

Can i post pics here or do i have to use a photo hosting website like photobucket???

i think i'll be pleased to go back to ati. NVIDIA havn't given me a bad time. But i prefer ati drivers because they are simpler. Also they have moving animations to show you what your current settings of aa and af look like if you were to accept them. Which makes things more convenient. Their overclocking seems simpler as well, they give you the temperature settings and fanspeed settings in the same package. With Nvidia i had to install nvidia perofromance for my motherboard which was for the computer as a whole

my case seems to be canny for £16.99 but it's worth more! Micro atx but it's got air vents everywhere and i think i could stick quite a big cpu cooler in, could upgrade zalman cnps9500nt to 9700nt i think if wanted to quite easilly. It is good quality, it's soo cheap because it's made out of steel, but the steel is thin and it's actually quite light. it's a screw case as well so it doesn't have clips but screws soot me fine, the back screws have nobs on them so i can screw them off by hand easilly.

That help quite a bit, thank you omgitzfatal!

I see that you mount it at the back of your card, any reason why you choose to do it like that? Have you tried installing it with the black stock metal plate on?

My temp with stock clock and cooling after 12 min of FurMark's "Start-Xtreme-Burning-With-Post-Processing"is:

GPU Temp 1: 70C
GPU temp 2: 74C
GPU temp 3: 72C

VDDC Phase 1: 60C
VDDC phase 2: 61C
VDDC Phase 3: 60C

Ambient temp is around 26C. As you can see, the stock cooler does cool the VRM better in this case. The GPU itself however, got a nice improvement with the GT . I just wonder how the temp will be if we can install the HR-03 GT at the front of the card, with the stock base plate on. Maybe it's only minor difference though, because even with that configuration, I don't see a lot of air can move around the VRM area

it'll fit. it's got space. All a case is is a surronding over the motherboard. The case has air vents on the right left, back and bottom side. Also at the front as well. That was without the posting lol. Ok, so it has an air vent right next to the grahphics card on the side and it has an air vent on the bottom right next to the graphic card's fan. There is also a fan at the front of the case pushing air right in the front of the graphics card. i also have a evercool guided missile pci fan. Exhausts alot of hot air out of the case. The cpu seems to be cooled quite efficiently, plus i only have the speed on slow at the moment and i'm getting good temperature readings. It's an nt but now the nt version comes with fanmate 2 which is good and it's nickel silver colour so it goes well with my mobo look.

but what's the point man, i have a 1280 x 1024 19 inch monitor which is graphics card friendly. And sharp as well. i don't need sli cfx overkill. but then for Crysis ok, since even on 1280 x 1024 settings i won't be able to play it on very high with 60 fps average. If i were to get 5850.

Good choices, my i5 is sitting at 3.8ghz@ a cool 59C on 100%load.
The 5850 lets me play crysis on max at 1920x1080