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Good question, i was wondering about the funcionality of the backplate as well. And yes all things i heard abot MSI were good(but nothing else than user forum opinions, which mostly claim closed box peak temps within 67-72C, if true tha should be great) and AFAIK only the ASUS DCII has the...

Yeah i was looking into pricing but 355€ is 488$ while msrp of the reference card was supposed to be 400$, so i think they're just priced at european prices. Its CrossFire 270x, so 2x 270x is 20€ cheaper than the GB 290 WF3. I should've wrote CrossFire, CF hides nicely in all those codes. :P...

Hello, im looking into buying a new GPU as my GTX260 is now pretty much obsolete. It still does the job for DOTA2 or the occasional Indie titles, but now that Star Citizen is slowly coming to life and BF4 is available for a reasonable price, im ready to get something better. I also have intetion...

Thanks again, just to let you guys know, i bought: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P Intel e5200 Box Palit GTX 260 896MB Sonic 216SP 2 x 2gb Corsair XMS2 PC2-8500 CL5 Arctic cooling fusion 550R PSU Xigmatek s1283 the old stuff completing the build: Maxtor 160Gb SATA 7200 rpm disk Fujitsu 100Gb...

Ordered and payed for as said above, thanks for help.. And now the waiting game.. :) @ oynaz: np, i'm glad it helps.

Im not sure how much power do you need these days to get 1080p? How much does it affect your processor and how much grafic card? How much do different codecs affect the ease of playing? ty

AFAIK this second power plug is for CPU and im going to OC e5200 for which it should be enough. But i would like to be sure before i order.. ty

Its like this: 800 Kingston 4096MB KIT HyperX PC2-6400U CL4-4-4-12 - 2,0 V - 33,53 ? (2 x 2gb) 800 A-Data 4096MB Vitesta Extreme Edition Kit PC2-6400 CL4-4-4-12 - 1,9 - 2,1 V - 38,57 ? (1 stick) 1000 G.Skill 4096MB KIT PC2-8000 CL5-5-5-15 2,0 - 2,1 V (2x 2GB) - 34,37 ? 1066 Corsair XMS2...

So, after a lot of headbanging and a bit of investigation, i think i ve got it. Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P Intel e5200 Box Palit GTX 260 896MB Sonic 216SP 2 x 2gb Corsair XMS2 PC2-8500 CL5 Arctic cooling fusion 550R PSU Xigmatek s1283 --------------------------------- = 482? For now...

Thank you for the replies. I did 2 more intel P45 builds: ASUS P5Q Pro (15? cheaper than ud3p) Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 So775 BOX 2x 2.53GHz (42? more than e5200) Palit GTX 260 896MB Sonic 216SP (30? less than gainward 4870 1gb golden sample) 2 x 2gb Kingston HyperX PC2-6400U CL4-4-4-12...

The Intel build: Gigabyte ga-ep45-ud3p/ASUS p5q pro e5200 (upgrade to q6600/q9550 later) Gainward 4870 1024MB Golden Sample PCIe (upgrade to CF avalible later) 2 x 2gb Corsair XMS2 PC2-8500 CL5 Arctic cooling fusion 550R PSU ---------------------------- = 476? The AMD build: ASUS...