thermaltake makes good cases, and cpu fans, and there water cooler (big water) is ok, Iv never used one of their power supplys, I can tell you that you do NOT want a power supply that is not "active PFC", it will not give the different commponents in your pc power evenly, so in this case, dont be cheap go Corsair!
the catalyst overclock tool works really well at diagnosing the best overclock to keep your card safe, at those temps on air cooling you're on the boarder line of loosin fps because the chip is to hot. anything over 60*C is in the red (no pun intended), unless you liquid cool to bring it lower. Try the ati tool (if you haven't) and find out what the software decides is the best overclock and monitor the temps are whatever that overclock is. and if you want to run the gpu at nearly a gig, get some liquid on that sucker!
dont count out quad core ;) it has other advantages, if your just looking for gains in gaming stick with a dual core. if you don't want to OC get the highest clocked dual core you can. BTW intel's new quads are on there way, so expect the current Q series to drop in price soon.
that is high, however that cpu has a high clock, I'm sure it doesnt run cool anyway. Are you using a stock little cpu cooler?? I'd invest In a big ol Zalman cpu cooler for that cpu, BTW nice shoice thats a kick ass dual core.
3d mark is not a game first of all, its a seriers of threading exercises for your gpu, in the case of having 2 gpu's it WILL score higher, However in real gameplay you will not see any worthy improvement over a single core, In the future yes games will support the advantage of dual gpu, but when is the future??? 6 months, 2 years?? I dont know, I do know that my 4870 runs super smooth, cool and fast, with OC potential that will still be faster then a 3870x2.
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