Still the 5870 -- I know I just said I want to keep the price stable, but for some reason there's some little prideful part of me that wants to say I own the 5870 instead of the 5850. :P Call me vain I guess!
I'm getting close to the point of hitting the big buy button; seeing as I'm a...
That'd be the weird redirection thing this forum uses -- it's this amazon DOT com/gp/product/B001LYPNFQ/ref=ord_cart_shr?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER
CPU speed isn't my biggest concern; I've been working off a laptop's dual-core for years, and the biggest program I use is Visual Studio 2010 (which...
I'm definitely considering overclocking. Again, this is my first build, and the last time I even considered building a computer the thought at the time was that overclocking was dangerous and pretty much not worth it, but it seems as though the mentality has changed a lot since then.
To clarify, I'm getting two of the 2x2gb packages, for a total of 8 gigs. (I accidentally linked some of those to the combos instead of the actual products, although I guess that's good too.) As for the GTX suggestions, I've heard they're consume a lot more power and run a lot hotter than the...
This is my first ever build after a long stream of hand-me-down computers. I've done a little bit of research, and this is what I've come up with:
Antec EarthWatts EA650 650W Power Supply
Gigabyte 890FX/SATA3&USB3.0/A&2GbE/ATX Motherboard GA-890FXA-UD5
Phenom II X4 965 Black AM3 3.4Ghz...
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