Graphics Card And Hard Drive
Graphics Card: HIS H785F1G2M Radeon HD 7850 1 GB
The affordable Radeon HD 7850 delivers amazing performance in a compact form factor that only requires one six-pin power connector. As expected, AMD's Pitcairn GPU gives us 1,024 shaders, an 860 MHz core clock rate, and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory operating at 1,200 MHz (4,800 MT/s).
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This HIS card includes plenty of connectivity: one dual-link DVI-I connector, HDMI, and two mini-DisplayPort outputs. A CrossFire bridge, DVI-to-VGA adapter, and driver disc all come included with the most affordable Radeon HD 7850 at our disposal.
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda ST500DM002 500 GB
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Seagate's 500 GB ST500DM002 gives us plenty of capacity, a 7,200 RPM spindle, 16 MB of data cache ,and a 6Gb/s SATA interface. We're not particularly thrilled about a limited two-year warranty, though.