anyone with an opinion on the GPU temperature? I haven't had a game to actually test the card yet and I probably won't till Left 4 Dead 2 but I played Command and Conquer 3 for about 30 mins and it only went up to 41 or 42 degrees Celsius

I downloaded a program called GPU-Z and it's reading it as 40 degrees celsius and 677 RPM fan speed for general computing...too high? The cords aren't touching the card as far as I know.....thanks for the help...once I get used to where everything should be, I won't have this problem anymore

Your CPU temperature is fine, although if you are planning on overclocking get an aftermarket CPU fan and better cable management. You should check on your GPU temp, as bad cable management can smother the GPU and cause it to massively overheat.LiftedHeadshot

How do I go about doing that? I opened up AMD Overdrive and I can see GPU status but it just has engine and memory speeds (MHz)...the temp blocks are greyed out

I got an awesome PC for about 550.....at least I think it's a good one......2.66 AMD Phenom X4 Quad Core processor, 500 GB Hard Drive, 1 GB ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics card, 4 GB Ram, misc stuff for about 600-650....my monitor cost 1/3 of my computer...I would biuld your own because it's not that bad. I'd never been inside a computer till this one and the parts all came with intructions and there is plenty of references online as well by people who've built plenty of them.

Good luck....I don't know anything about ibuypower but I figured I would share my experience

Ok, so basically my temps hover around 31 to 33 degrees Celsisu for processor and 36-39 degrees celsius for system temp. CPU speed is around 2600 MHz and fan speed is around 3200 RPM

My system is the following: 2.66 AMD Phenom X4 Quad Core Processor, 1 GB Radeon HD 4850, 4 GB Ram and a biostar motherboard....(think that's all the pertinent info). This is my first computer to build and it went well. The only downside was I had to upgrade a power supply and I've got a lot of wires running around in there that are thick and I don't believe there's an issue with them being bundled or whatnot.

Are those temps normal for just normal computer use? Anything the wires could cause because there's not a ton of room but I don't think it's affecting air flow or anything because I think the temps are low enough....but that's why I'm asking you all. I'd be happy to clarify anything if you have questions. Thanks for the help.

Also as a bonus question, this is the first time having Windows in probably 4-5 years (made a windows desktop for gaming and keeping my Mac laptop for misc stuff)....what's the best idea for virus software. I downloaded Symnatec Endpoint Protection from my school because it's free....any thoughts?

I just got my computer up and running.....After about an hour and a half of installing Vista and XP my temps were around 38 degrees celsius for AMD Phenom X4 processor and 42 degrees celsius for system.....anything to worry about there or about normal? Thanks for the input

I got a 1 GB 4850 from newegg for 110 bucks (think it's 120 now but still a good deal)

Good ol' lazy developers....I mean it's a beautiful game but the way you sell as much as you can is make it run on as many machines as you can (aka WoW) but not sacrifice graphics...it's a fine line and they weren't close to it.

It sure is pretty though

well, here's my problem

The computer will turn on and the fans and everything sounds normal when there is no connector bringing power to the graphics card....

However, when I plugged in the graphics card power and tried to turn the computer on, it turned on for about half a second and then everything shuts off.....and then I let it sit for a while and unplugged the graphics card power and everything turned on again and ran smoothly....

I'm not very knowledgable as some of you but to me that seems like the Power supply can't handle the card. So hence my question....any idea what else it could be?

Does anyone know what the minimum amperage that's required to run this card? My PSU has 24 A on the +12 V rail and 550 W max overall