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I would say an ATI 5750. You might be able to go to a 5850 and not have much of a bottleneck depending which speed your X2 is but I think your PSU only has 19amps on the +12v rail. Not a lot of power for a GPU today. And the low power on the PSU is another reason I recommend an ATI 5000 card...

Since these will be standard SSD chips I don't think latency will be much different. Just the bandwidth gets a boost from the chips in 4 or 8-way RAID on the card. Wonder what scenarios will and won't be helped by SSD in RAID. Also you won't be seeing marketing on motherboard boxes referring to...

OK, so OCZ had a product it will be releasing in the future that has (upgradable) SSD modules on a PCI-Express card. This will be bootable. More potential for future SSD chips since PCI-Express has a higher bandwidth than SATA. But it can hit the speeds it says because it does RAID on the card...

Except that isn't a depiction of what happens in the game but in your room when you turn the GTX480 on.

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PhysX is not used in many popular games. Havok physics is used in a ton of games. And not all of Havok is done through the CPU. But game physics are still mostly for visual appeal (rag doll, cloth) rather than game changing (destructible environments). I don't think one type of physics has...

Yeah, since ATI went small chips they can OC very well. Nvidia on the other hand has had to disable parts of the chip and downclock to get enough working chips to sell in volume. What are you playing that you need more than a GTX260? An ATI 58**/Nvidia GTX 4** would be a good improvement...

After the bios the place I would look is in Device Manager. Like I said, depending on your board it may auto disable the onboard when you plug in a GPU without letting you do otherwise. Technically it should be able to do multi-monitor w/onboard and GPU (with PCI-Express). The reason some do not...

active adapters (has power) vs passive adapter (just changes the plug). The trouble isn't doing 3 monitors. Depending on your board you could enable onboard and have the GPU at the same time. The single card could do 2 monitors and the onboard could do 1. But that would only be if you wanted a...

I would actually drop the two 4850 512MB cards from that Tom's hardware link and go for a single 5850 1GB. Would be able to pull money from below* for the higher priced card. 1)*Going crossfire will cost you more on the motherboard and PSU. 2)*The 5000 series card uses less power than a 2x 4000...

Yeah, I'd say go for a 1TB even if you just use 500gb worth. It will be faster if all the data is on the outside of the drive (data goes there first).

Could do 2 parts. 1 back up files and when you first installed the OS make a image of your HDD so menu changes, drivers installed, apps installed etc all get included on that backup image. So when you restore a system you do the image first and then plop your data back in the right folders...

1) WD 640GB (a hair faster than WD's own 750 and 500GB drives) 2) Samsung F3 (HD754JJ) You should back up then. Then a bad drive would just mean down time instead of loss of data. I'm sure others do too but I know first hand WD will send you a drive in the mail ASAP first and then you mail...

What FF version are you using and what plug-ins to you use? Also for those stats what were you viewing, was it a long session or tons of tabs or did you leave it running for a day? I usually don't shut my PC off and have not closed FF for maybe a week. It has had up to maybe 10 tabs open and 5...

I think Mass Effect 2 recommends a 8800gt (the 9800gt you linked to). You CPU I would think play OK with the GPU and that game but it would be on the low side. Like a X2 4200+ would do fine (I'm not suggesting to upgrade to it).

That GPU would help quite a bit. 9800GT = 8800GT which performs between the 8800GTS (this isn't the G92 version) and 8800GTX. But I'd upgrade the whole system if you want more performance than that. What games do you play and which are you hurting for performance the most?

Reading some other reviews and I'm noticing varying FPS numbers for GTX480 vs HD5870. I guess it depends how you plan on using the card. High res LCD or play specific games with with AA or with AF. Some games the GTX480 drops less frames when you increase AA while in others the 5870 holds it's...

They skipped 'em? Here is a 300 part but for OEMs (can't buy in a retail box by itself). So my guess is that Nvidia will play their renaming tricks again and put lower performing GTX 200 parts as 300 models to spur sales. That's what they did to the 8800->9800 and other such cards. Same specs...

This review says Chrome 4 uses 256mb while FF3.6 uses 152MB with "10 media-heavy sites loaded". TBH I have both FF3.6 and Chrome (i think beta) loaded on different machines and both seem quick. Especially compared to what I used to use which was FF3. The version and the plugins makes a...

Firefox was a resource hog. ATM if someone complains of their FF setup it seems more the plug-ins rather than firefox itself compared to previous versions. FF3.6 is snappier than 3 or 3.5. I believe this is javascript (sunspider) from a 2010 benchmark. Last I knew Chrome was in V3 and V4 was...