yea i went into power options and created my own plan, computer still refuses to sleep. wont do it wether i click on the sleep option in the start menu, or if i hit the button on my case. i hit sleep and all it does is make my keyboard, mouse, and monitor sleep. it could be somethin with the cpu or mobo not allowing it to sleep. but the hibernate, power, and restart functions still work...

so i want my power button to make the computer sleep, and i set it in the control panel. when i hit it, it doesnt put the cpu or computer to sleep, but my mouse, monitor and keyboard do go to sleep. why is my sleep button not working? oh and i have win 7

yea well i was talking about for me, since i have a gtx 295 atm... i would prefer to have a single gpu, seems less likely to have problems. but idk if getting a 480 would make sense. it would be a bigger improvement to get a 5970, sounds like

hmm... well a gtx 480 would be cheaper by about $100-200... do you think there is enough of a performance increase to justify buying one right now?

well my mobo is intel, supports 3 way SLI, but not crossfire. :(so im limited to oneATI card. from what i can tell they have the performance crown right now

heh well i don't plan on overclocking a 5970 if i get one, i think it will be more than sufficient at stock speeds. i game at 1920x1200 usually, games like crysis warhead, mw2, bfbc2, empire total war, etc. maybe 2 gtx 480s in SLI might be better than one 5970, but one on one the 5970 beats anything, right?

guess i should mention my rig:

intel core i7 920 overclocked to 3.4ghz

EVGA gtx 295

6gb Corsair DDR3 1600

EVGA x58 SLI mobo

Kingwin 1000w PSU

Creative Fatal1ty sound blaster

Antec 1200

300gb velociraptor HDD

lol yea waaaay overpriced for essentially just a 5970 with more memory. 5970 is also dx11 compatable for the future, so it sounds good. does it matter what manufacturer I buy the card from? is saphire any better/worse than XFX or whatever? or are they all the same?

so the 5970 is a dual gpu card, with much better specs? pretty much the best on the market atm? could i slap one of those into my evga x58 motherboard, even tho the card is ATI and the board and my cpu are intel?

I am looking to get a new graphics card, but I havent been keeping up with the latest info. I would like a single gpu solution preferably, but the card with the best performance will win. is the gtx 480 a single gpu, or double? is the 5970 better? its way more expensive from what i can tell.

any info about the best gpu on the market would be much appreciated! thanks

I wanted to be able to put more than just win 7 on the new drive, so that (and the rediculous price) ruled out an SSD. 300gb should be enough for the OS and a fair amount of games. and yea i think i will just transfer and then wipe. is it easy to access the stuff on the old HDD once i have two?