Graphics Card: Sapphire 100259L Radeon HD 4870 512 MB
Our quest for higher frame rates led us to this massive reference-clocked Sapphire HD 4870 featuring 512 MB of GDDR5 memory. Its large dual-slot cooler is quiet when in 2D and it did an effective job of ramping up fan speeds to keep the GPU temperatures down. Currently priced at $190, its retail bundle includes two power adapter cables, an HDTV cable, a DVI-to-HDMI adapter, a DVI-to-VGA adapter, an S-Video adapter, and a CrossFire bridge interconnect cable.
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Hard Drive: Samsung SpinPoint T Series HD501LJ 500GB
Priced right along with 250-320 GB drives, this 7,200 RPM Samsung has a 16 MB cache buffer and was the only 500 GB drive we could fit into our budget. According to Samsung’s support Web site, this HD501LJ model comes with just a one year parts and labor warranty.
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- Higher FPS
- CPU And Cooler
- Motherboard And Memory
- Graphics Card And Hard Drive
- Case, Power Supply, And Optical Drive
- Assembly And Overclocking
- Test System Configuration And Benchmarks
- Benchmark Results: Crysis And Unreal Tournament 3
- Benchmark Results: World In Conflict And Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
- Benchmark Results: Audio/Video Encoding
- Benchmark Results: Productivity
- Benchmark Results: Synthetics
- Power Consumption
- Conclusion
