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    My new desktop, whaddya think?

    5870's on ebay are selling for well over $200, I got my 4890's for 130 (that was a BIN) & 110 shipped. :shrug:
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    My new desktop, whaddya think?

    I had been waiting to buy this stuff for a while, I think my decision on the 4890's might have been based on old info/ebay prices. O well. From the toms hardware charts *ducks to avoid tomatoes* the cf 4890's are quite a bit more powerful than a single 5870, and in the lower end of the ballpark...
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    My new desktop, whaddya think?

    Heh, yeah I suppose post-purchase input is kinda silly, but I was curious. I got the 2gb dimms because it was cheap, popular on newegg, and enabled dual channel (my cpu-mobo combo do use dual channel, right? I just assumed they did).
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    My new desktop, whaddya think?

    I've been wanting to build a new desktop for a while, and I can finally afford to do it. Here's what I got (everything's already in the mail): Case: Coolermaster CM 690 II advanced ($80) psu: XFX 850w black ed. ($145) cpu: AMD Phenom 2 955 3.2ghz ($110 on ebay) mobo: Asus m4a79xtd ($100) ram...