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lol just a thought some people up on the googleness are like its a heavy change but I just wonder if its a 5-10 fps diff or 20-30+ .
for games.

on that thought is it a huge gap on performance?

Hi all, As the topic suggest I just asking for some 3c. I am purchasing myself an i5 760 with a board an some ram. But the question I want to ask is how will it run with xp home?? I am getting 7 but next month or 2 :/ but will xp give me issues? i just wanna play some games on my 17" non HD non...

well i cpu will melt if i compress and play games lol,

sorry man i know of no software

HAF 932 + 1

if you running amd then HAF 932 limited addition
i just love that case and the way it looks

wow i see now civ 5 use alot cores?? i am playing it @ 1280 x 960 touch of lag thou when i zoom in and out but i always play zoomed in. but also clocking the cpu to 3.4.

Would love to go i7 but 2 things hold me back. 1 when do you neeed all them cores? 2 my wallet will be really really tiny lol

haha my C# is fine on the p 4 processor its the games that not:) I have never had a AMD machine I think it's because I see intels stickers everywhere lol one more Q, I know the c2d is going out but I read somewhere that the E8300 or E8600 im not sure which one but I read it had crazy performance on ...

well I thort as much for the X6 about not using its full pote for the price. and im in Cape Town so I hope Axiz will have it in stock. I dont know of other suppliers here that have the parts in stock. And yes GDI the pc is for games at the moment, I dont do designing but a tiny bit of C# (basics :D)...

Wow dankie for the link.

it helped alot lol still thinking what to get but i think i know what I am going to do now.

Thanks for your dudes help made things alot more clearer for me

(GV-N460OC-1GI) GIGABYTE® nVidia® GeForce GTX460 - 1GB GDDR5, 256-Bit - Over Clocked R2,488.00

good card for its priceI think Its better than the 5850 but not 5870 thou

uhm lol thats what I am trying to find out.

Because AMD prices are and intels

Well I like overclock just not the cpu got bad memories :( well I budgeted R6200 for the AMD setup. Was thinking of a quick c2d or c2q upgrade then I get get the i7 next year or when intel releases there new processor. you see in 1 month I can get R2000- R3000 for my pc. If I wait 2month then Ill ha...

Hi all, So straight to the point :D I wanna upgrade my rig but I am unsure what is the best option for me gaming. I have a Pentium 4 531 3.0Ghz :oops: 3Gb ram ATI HD 5770 iceQ :) My card is good enough for the games but really my cpu is crying every single day. I wanna upgrade to AMD X6 T1090 cpu wi...