Originally posted by sammorris:

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Lol wut? No graphics card? :P

Looks nice and tidy in there Will, good work. Can't say the same about my PC as of yet, the wires aren't long enough to be tidied up... :(

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Originally posted by redice:

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nice and clean build there will.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Should be a powerful system all round with that card fitted. The HD5770 is by no means a performance giant but where it counts, performance for cost, and especially performance per watt, it's in a class of its own. The HD5770 uses a full 60W less at full load than the HD4870 it replaces, and cuts more than 40W off the idle power consumption as well, resting at 25W.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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A Q9550 in 2010? I think you'd be better off aiming for an i5 if I'm honest...

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Well, overall the i5 750 is a good 10-20% clear of the Q9550 and overclocks substantially better, and costs $70 less for the CPU itself. You can get good Biostar P55 boards for $30 less than the TPower i45 too.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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A Q9550 in 2010? I think you'd be better off aiming for an i5 if I'm honest...

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Originally posted by Estuansis:

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I have lots of friends that could film an Indiana Jones movie in their cases :P

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i have quad core cpu with 450 gpu

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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The HD4890 is more powerful than the HD5770 by a noticeable margin. If you can afford one then do it. The HD5850 absolutely trounces the HD4890, however, though it is a lot more expensive. Any of these cards will run off a 450W PSU, though Antec Basiq units are quite unreliable so you should look into having it replaced in the long term.

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Jeff: Agreed with everything about your post except " considering my main build is mostly gaming, an i5 holds little real benefit for me" - you do realise that i5s are the gaming optimised equivalents of i7s right?

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Something like a Corsair VX 450W. It's a much better quality unit than the Antec - 450W is ample.

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Understood, taking your post from a general perspective it looked like you were bringing the i5 to the same non-gaming level as the i7, which isn't strictly fair.

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Antec's PSUs are normally pretty good, but off the back of all the reports I've heard about them, to be quite frank I tar the Basiq units with the same brush as the likes of Apevia and Rosewill.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Russ: Windows has always been that expensive. I'm used to it.
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i have quad core cpu with 450 gpu

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Did you mean to say a 450W PSU? Or that you already have a 3450 4350 or 4550 or 4650 or 4850 GPU? It's not immediately clear. Assuming that you meant to say you have a 450W PSU, then as long as it's a good 450W (please tell us what brand it is, that's even more important than the wattage) it will run any graphics card in the $150 price range.
Essentially the 4850 and 4870 have been replaced by the 5750 and 5770. They perform roughly the same, but are more energy efficient, and will soon be the only ones you can buy as the 4870 is discontinued. The 4890 is the older technology but is more powerful - there is no HD5790 yet. Generally any nvidia card in that price bracket will be overpriced for what it is, so I don't typically recommend them.
HD5770s start at $160, if you can stretch to that, certainly go ahead and buy one.

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