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On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] Cooler Master vs. Corsair vs. Asus (650Watts)
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I have the Corsair TX650 and a 1 X 4850 - they both work great but my PSU is 100W over-kill. For gaming on a single GPU, the TX550W is prob [...]
    binomial 16 359 Sable Wand​erer
10-13-2008 at 01:32 AM
On [CPUs] Core 2 Quad Q6600 or Core 2 Duo E8500
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Toss-up. Quad might be more future proof. Until applications arrive that utilize multi-cores a fast dual core will perform best. Today you [...]
    amir4pro 3 350 jthorn
09-29-2008 at 11:31 PM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] is cooler master 390W possible to run ATI HD4850?
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PSU output degrades over time (aging capacitors). So plan accordingly. Also, I believe vendors recommend 450w system PSU when using 1X485 [...]
    archiefan 36 1002 lunyone
10-17-2008 at 09:17 AM
On [CPUs] 3dMark Vantage out of whack
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I just purchased a Q6600 and 4850 that seems to have AGEIA physics running in a software mode. Does this help me and does this affect the 3 [...]
    clownbaby 7 270 jthorn
09-06-2008 at 06:11 PM
On [CPUs] q9550 vs q6600
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+1 for P45 and P5Q. If you are not going to crossfire P5Q with P45 is a great choice and it OC's very well. Good FSB, PCIE 2.0, and lots [...]
2   geeeeoffff​1 63 2869 boien
11-03-2008 at 01:49 AM
On [CPUs] q6600 vs q9400 vs q9550
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Dual core E8500 for 75% + gaming (OC'd to ~3.4), Q6600 (Oc'd to ~3.0) for some games, web surfing, and media editing on a budget, and Q9450 [...]
    SwampThug 5 2482 jthorn
08-21-2008 at 04:19 PM
On [CPUs] Help!! 4200+ or E6400
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The E6400 at stock speed is 20 percent better than AMD 4200. In fact E6400 is better than 4600. You would have to buy AMD 5000 to get comp [...]
    Sisko690 12 995 AdamJ
04-12-2007 at 09:21 PM
On [CPUs] AMD's stock closes near 2 year low
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Intel has got to be hurting too. I know I am in the market for a new gaming rig but there is no way in hell I would buy atm. About the time [...]
    mpjesse 11 969 jthorn
03-06-2007 at 09:29 PM
On [CPUs] AMD vs Intel 2007-2010 prediction
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For god sakes, drop your prices Intel!
    lordpope 46 4846 CaptRobert​April
02-03-2007 at 11:07 AM
On [CPUs] The Intel Bias In the Forum
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Personally, I am biased towards value and performance. ATM, for most applications (gaming, video, audio,etc), Intel reclaimed this with [...]
4   halbhh 175 8880 Jake_Barne​s
01-24-2007 at 07:34 PM
On [CPUs] AMD Taking over in China!
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China will need the best multi core CPU's soon enough to make all their mass DVD copy and file transfer technology run faster :P
5   HoldenMcGr​oin 213 11628 corvettegu​y
10-07-2006 at 08:34 AM
On [CPUs] Is the AMD Athlon 1800 Still a player?
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<---------My plan too. Sometime early 2007 for me, maybe iE6600, DDR2 ram, PCIe DX10 ?, and a bigger power supply to support it all. [...]
    ifOnly 27 2182 PaCanc
09-28-2006 at 08:49 AM
On [CPUs] Long term investment - Intel 3.0
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I am still going to try and get 1 or 2 more years out of my 2 year old Intel 3.0E HT socket 478 and ASUS P4C800E. I found ATI X800XL AGP for [...]
    Novak 4 759 1Tanker
09-03-2006 at 10:24 PM

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