This is what i came up with that i can afford most likely. Please rate /review as i really am not the greatest at building my own computer. Processor- 1 x Quad Core AMD Phenom II X4 975 Black Edition Quad-Core CPU- Processor Cooling- 1 x Liquid CPU Cooling System [AMD]-ARC Dual Silent High Performance Fan Upgrade (Push-Pull Airflow) Memory- 1 x 4 GB [2 GB X2] DDR3-1333 Memory Module- Video Card- 1 x AMD Radeon HD 6790 - 1GB-Single Card Motherboard- 1 x [CrossFire] ASUS M5A97 -- AMD 970 w/ 2x PCI-E 2.0 x16- Motherboard USB / SATA Interface 1 x Motherboard default USB / SATA Interface- Power Supply- 1 x 750 Watt -- Corsair CMPSU-750TXV2- Primary Hard Drive- 1 x 1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 32M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s-Single Drive Please any feedback would be great. I plan on using this desktop for ONLY GAMING SWTOR and possibly World of Warcraft. I have a pretty good laptop to do work on.Mshxi420

Drop the CPU to a 955BE and up the GPU to a HD6850 if your interested in playing games, because it'll give you better framerate in games.

The 955BE is the exsact same CPU as the one you've choosen but with a lower multiplier, since theyre both BE's you just raise the multiplier to 975's level.

Why would you opt. for a TX750, a vx550 is much more than your be able to load the PSU, buy a cheaper PSU (not in therms of quality but in therms of price) vx550 would even manage CF HD6850 if you want to, TX750 is just overkill.

[QUOTE="mikval"]I see, but I need to get another thing straight, Starcraft II's System Requirements require that I have at least a Dual Core Processor with 2.4GHz, but I have a Quad Core Processor with 1.4GHz, does this mean that I can't play Starcraft II?ionusX

not so in fact your over the boxes requirements XD

the best dual core's barely stack up to the slowest quad core's XD

So I currently have 2 gtx 460's in my system, but I had a thought, can I get a different more low end card and make it a physx dedicated card, so then my 2nd 460 doesn't have to worry about it? Oh and by the way, my 460's are 2 way sli only, so can it all still be done without an sli bridge?

oOiRuL3zOo

Anandtech said this in the conclution of their review.

"So where does that leave the 5670? The 5670 does surprisingly well against the 9800 GT. It wins in some cases, trails very slightly in a few more, and then outright loses only in games where the 5670 is already playable up to 1920x1200. From a performance standpoint I think the 9800 GT is ahead, but it's not enough to matter; meanwhile the "green" 9800 GT shortens the gap even more, and it still is over 10W hotter than the 5670. The 5670 is a good enough replacement for the 9800 GT in that respect, plus it has support for DX11, Eyefinity, and 3D Blu-Ray when that launches later this year."

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I have to agree with them, they perform very simular.

ok ok ok, the fact is these benchmarks have a purpose and they provide excellent information in what a card is capable of , there might be some differences but overall the reviewers come to the same conclusion. The more times passes , the more the drivers are updated and the information becomes more accurate.

Techpowerup and tomshardware are my two main sites for hardware information, when i have i see a difference in results in the two sites i go to others

Well on game debate (www.game-debate.com) you can compare graphics cards. the hd 5670 is said to be 27 procent higher than the 9800 gt

That's confusing now i got three different answers, i need to keep on looking. let's go to guru 3d

evildead6789

The giant ranking list of techpowerup is great because it gives you a good hint on the performance but it's not entirely accurate since the older card were run with really old drivers but the new ones have new drivers.

Opposite to what Gambler try to give the impression of, this giant list is NOT coneccted to the reviews in any other way than that its just a ranking list, witch they put in results from their reviews over a long time.

Whenever I see that chart as a veto on X pwns X card I giggle a little, the older cards is not tested at the same instance on the same drivers, yes they may have been tested with the same hardware but thats the case with most reviewers as they usally use the same bench for a long time streaching over sevral years.

Well thats not speaking for the HD5670 is it?, because the 8800gt is older, but I have been comparing different reviews from anandtech and HW3d and tomsHw, they do indeed perform near eachother, the 8800gt seems to have better results in the shader heavy games but the opposite in different cases where the HD5670 manage to take the lead.

These giant charts are great as a owerview and general performance, but things DO change with new drivers, I remember a reviewer did a test to see how much the drivers do actually increase the performance over time well in some cases it's as much as 1/3 and in other games it remain the same, some even show a negative result where they take away some performance to fix obvious glitches in the game, point is that reviews made a long time ago is not at all relevant when we talk about difference in the single %, in a wider span then yes they provide a ranking system but the cards witch were within a few % from eachother can shift place.

[QUOTE="swehunt"][QUOTE="The_Gaming_Baby"]

So I put 4gb of ram into my pc yet my pc, although saying there is 4gb in the computer, says that only 2.66gb is useabale. Why is this? I'm on Windows 7 if that helps.

The_Gaming_Baby

[QUOTE="swehunt"]It's these huge techpowerup charts. :lol: These charts are both old and new, each card runs a different driver, no real comparison can be made outta it, only a estemate.Gambler_3

If you would have bothered looking at a review this is what it says at the test setup page,

• All video card results were obtained on this exact system with the exact same configuration.
• All games were set to their highest quality setting

Seems to me nobody knows how techpowerup charts work.

If you manage to snag a chart from techpowerup and post it here, manage to even qoute them driectly from their site I do not think it's to much to actually understand what the quote actually says!

It says NOTHING about what drivers were used, and honestly do you in your wildest imagination think they have the time to run benchmarks on 60 cards sevral times a month? It takes huge amount of time and isn't even remotly possible to do!

I know for a fact that this is not the case, Techpowerup test the cards one time, then they just add up with new results as they come, thats why they manage to make charts with is all incorrect and still have it in the chart.

So I put 4gb of ram into my pc yet my pc, although saying there is 4gb in the computer, says that only 2.66gb is useabale. Why is this? I'm on Windows 7 if that helps.

The_Gaming_Baby