Also that it has been reported by a member at XS that microstuttering has been fixed on these. That alone is worth any sub 600 with the performance that we will get with no microstuttering.CreasianDevaili

Yes, I read that too. Here's the post.

CF HD4870 76% faster than GTX 280

CF HD4870 58% faster than GTX 280


CF HD4870 86% faster than GTX 280

4870 with 2GB is gonna own all those.

redneckdouglas

Fixed.

I returned it because I got worse framerates in Mass Effect. Staryoshi87

That's strange. The hd4850 is 68% faster than 8800gt at 1680x1050 in Bioshock, which uses the same engine as Mass Effect.

Yeah i forgot the optical drive like this Samsung DVD burner (on special at 25$) and a hard disk (Seagate 500 GB 67$).

And if you intend to overclock your cpu, get the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro LGA775 cpu cooler. And buy a couple of additional 120mm fans, a good brand is Scythe.

That's a motherboard for AMD cpus and your cpu is Intel.

Get this P35 Mobo (87$) instead and the E8400 cpu (186$).

Video card is great.

Power supply is overkill for your system. I suggest the Corsair HX 520W.

Edit: And you can save 45$ by getting the Antec 300 case.

HIS, Diamond, Palit: 1 year warranty
Sapphire, Powercolor: 2 years
Asus, Gigabyte: 3 years
Visiontek: lifetime

And use Driver Cleaner or Driver Sweeper to remove the Nvidia drivers.